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Flytrap
US Amateur Magazine published and edited by Tim Pratt and Heather Shaw from Oakland, California, via the Tropism Press imprint in US quarto format, usually around 40 pages. It was started simply for fun, with a main run of ten issues, usually two per year tied in with one or another sf Convention (where most of its 200 or so sales were made), from November 2003 to November 2008. Several years ...
Psycho-Pass
Japanese animated tv series (2012-2013). Production I.G. Directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro and Naoyoshi Shiotani. Written by Makoto Fukami and Gen Urobuchi. Voice cast includes Kana Hanazawa, Kenji Nojima, Takahiro Sakurai and Tomokazu Seki. 22 23-minute episodes. Colour. / Twenty-second-century Japan is stable, prosperous and has created the "greatest happiness for the greatest number of people" (see Utopia). This is done through ...
Tears of Ecstasy
Japanese film (1995). Original title Ekusutashi no namida: Chiin. KKokuei (Tokyo). Directed by Hiroyuki Oki. Written by Hiroyuki Oki and Kiyomi Ito. Cast includes Hiromi Fujita, Hiroyuki Oki, Akiko Osugi and Tomoki Taguchi. 62 minutes. Colour. / A singular figure in contemporary art, Oki (1964- ) is a highly regarded artist and architect, as well as a documentary filmmaker, and director of mostly gay themed low budget ...
Solar System
This encyclopedia deals with sf about our Solar System under the following headwords, moving conventionally outward from the Sun (see also Stars for a more general treatment of suns). There are individual entries for Mercury, Venus, the Moon but not the Earth itself – though links to a great many relevant entries are assembled under a cross-reference ...
Kramer-Rolls, Dana
(1940- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Sword of the Mother" in Sword and Sorceress II: An Anthology of Heroic Fantasy (anth 1985) edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley. She has written Ties to three series: Combat Command in the World of Piers Anthony's Bio of a Space Tyrant: Cut by Emerald (1987) as Dana Kramer, a Gamebook ...
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 ...