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Fate/Extra Last Encore
Japanese animated tv series (2018). Shaft; Aniplex; Marvelous. Directed by Akiyuki Shinbo and Yukihiro Miyamoto. Written primarily by Kinoko Nasu. Character design by Hiroki Yamamura and Masaaki Takiyama. Music by Satoru Kōsaki. Voice cast includes Atsushi Abe and Sakura Tange. Thirteen 24-minute episodes. Colour. / The story is set in the Near Future (circa 2030) of an ...
Marley, Stephen
(1946- ) UK author who began to publish work of genre interest with Spirit Mirror (1988), opening the Chia Black Dragon trio of dark fantasies set in old China. Of direct sf interest are his Ties to the Comics universe of Judge Dredd, these being Judge Dredd: Dreddlocked (1993) and Judge Dredd: Dread Dominion (1994). Another tie, to the ...
80 Days
Videogame (2014). inkle. Designed by Meg Jayanth. Platforms: iOS. / 80 Days is a text-based videogame which rewrites Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days (1873; trans 1874) as a Steampunk Adventure. The player witnesses the events of the game through the perspective of the novel's original protagonists; Jean Passepartout, ...
Shaver, Richard S
(1907-1975) US author, author of some sf stories (some under the House Names Paul Lohrman and Frank Patton) but now remembered almost exclusively for his hoax-like sequence of Shaver Mystery stories, presented as based on fact, published in Raymond A Palmer's Amazing Stories 1945-1947, beginning with "I Remember Lemuria" in ...
Buchholz, Jason
(circa 1975- ) US editor, artist and author, whose Hapa background – a term used in California to designate persons whose ethnic background includes an Asian or Pacific Islander strain – infuses his first novel, A Paper Son (2016), set primarily in very Near Future San Francisco (see California) after a month-long storm has inundated the city (see ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star ...