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Broderick, Damien
(1944-2025) Australian author, editor and critic; he had a PhD in the semiotics of fiction, science and sf with special reference to the work of Samuel R Delany. He edited four anthologies of Australian sf: The Zeitgeist Machine (anth 1977), Strange Attractors (anth 1985), Matilda at the Speed of Light (anth 1988) and Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction (anth ...
Langton, Sarah Anne
(? - ) UK artist and graphic designer, long active as the main designer for the Forbidden Planet specialist store, in which capacity she has worked on branded projects for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, the Star Wars franchise and numerous others. / Langton designed the iconic "Pickwick the dodo" logo for Hodder & Stoughton's genre imprint, ...
2009: Lost Memories
Japanese/South Korean film (2002). CJ Entertainment. Directed by Lee Si-myung. Written by Lee Si-myung and Lee sang-hak. Cast includes Jang Dong-gun and Tōru Nakamura. 135 minutes, cut to 114 minutes in some territories. / An Alternate History, Near Future thriller that never quite lives up to the promise of its prologue and opening credits, ...
Pedler, Kit
Working name of UK author and scientist Christopher Magnus Howard Pedler (1927-1981). He was a medical doctor, practising from 1953 for about three years, after which he began the research into the experimental pathology of eye disease that resulted in a second doctorate; from his early years he was a passionate advocate for the proper conservation of the planet. In collaboration with Gerry Davis he created the menacing Cybermen for the ...
Case, Josephine Young
(1907-1990) US educator, administrator and author of a remarkable book-length sf poem, At Midnight on the 31st of March (1938), set in a New England village suddenly barred by an unidentified Disaster from any egress into the surrounding country, and shifted through a Timeslip into an uninhabited America, where it must rely upon its own closely observed resources. What seemed, on its 1990 republication, to read as tocsin ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...