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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Blue Demon: El Demonio Azul
Mexican film (1965). Filmica Vergara S.A. Directed by Chano Urueta. Written by Fernando Osés and Rafael García Travesi. Cast includes Jaime Fernández, Cesar Gay, Guillermo Hernandez, Altia Michel, Alejandro Moreno, Mario Orea, Fernando Osés and Rosa María Vázquez. 77 minutes. Black and white. / We see two lovers killed by a Werewolf. The doctor (Gay) conducting the autopsy concludes ...
Wild Palms
US tv miniseries (1993). American Broadcasting Company/Greengrass Enterprises/Ixtlan. Created and written by Bruce Wagner. Executive producers Wagner and Oliver Stone. Six hours. The first two-hour episode "Everything Must Go" directed by Peter Hewitt; the next one-hour episode "The Floating World" directed by Keith Gordon; the next one-hour episode "Rising Sons" directed by Kathryn Bigelow; the next one-hour episode "Hungry Ghosts" directed by Keith ...
Gautier, Judith
Working name of French poet and author Louise Charlotte Ernestine Gautier (1845-1917), daughter of Théophile Gautier, and deeply influenced in her long-standing and intense use of Oriental venues and themes by Pierre Loti (1850-1923). Her stories cannot be thought of easily as sf, but the elaborate and engaging use of myth and traditional motif makes it possible to think of her as a significant figure in the evolution of French ...
McCaffery, Larry
(1946- ) US academic, author, editor and literary critic, a retired professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University, California. He began publishing essays of genre interest with "Form, Formula, and Fantasy: Generative Structures in Contemporary Fiction" in the Eaton Conference volume Bridges to Fantasy (anth 1982) edited by Eric S Rabkin, Robert Scholes and ...
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 ...