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Tales of Tomorrow [tv/radio]
1. US tv series (1951-1953). ABC TV. Created and produced by George Foley, Dick Gordon. Story editor: Theodore Sturgeon. Two seasons with 85 episodes in all; season one ran from 3 August 1951 to 8 August 1952 (43 episodes) and season two from 22 August 1952 to 12 June 1953 (42 episodes). 25 minutes per episode. Black and white. / One of the earliest and most successful sf-anthology Television series, ...
Horror in SF
The central premise that sf is a literature of rational, scientifically based extrapolation lies at the heart of many Definitions of SF, but can be misleading when it is argued that sf can only be so described (see Science Fiction for a slightly looser wording). Much sf is anti-science, for reasons partly historic and perhaps partly intrinsic: the relationship of Fantastika to ...
Fahy, Casey
(1962- ) US author, mostly of nonfiction pieces on the film published online; of his two novels, The Bot Story (2001), about furry Aliens searching for their roots, is of moderate interest. (The implications of the titular use of a term usually applied to robots or computer applications may be inadvertent.) [JC]
Rosenbaum, Benjamin
(1969- ) US author, currently in Switzerland, much of whose early work has been fantasy, much of it assembled in The Ant King and Other Stories (coll 2008). He is of sf interest primarily for Die Auflösung (2018; presumed original manuscript released as The Unraveling 2021), a Young Adult coming of age novel set the fairly distant future, in an outwardly conventional ...
Bluejay Books
US publishing house founded by James R Frenkel, who had previously been the editor of Dell's sf line. Bluejay Books began publishing in 1983, its books being distributed by St Martin's Press. Among its titles were Gardner Dozois's best-of-the-year anthologies (see Anthologies), books by Frenkel's wife Joan D Vinge, Dan ...
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 (1966-1967), and later in ...