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A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Film (2001). Warner Brothers/Dreamworks/Amblin Entertainment. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Written by Steven Spielberg, based on a screen story by Ian Watson itself based on the story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" (December 1969 Harper's Bazaar) by Brian W Aldiss, with uncredited contributions from Stanley Kubrick. Cast includes Brendan ...
Barber, Griffin
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with 1636: Mission to the Mughals (2017) with Eric Flint, a novel set in the shared world of Flint's Assiti Shards: 1632 alternate history sequence; Barber and Flint also collaborated on the later series title 1637: The Peacock Throne (2021). Other works include the noir Space Opera ...
Do You Believe In Nightmares
US Comic (1957-1958). St John. 2 issues. Artists include Dick Ayers and Steve Ditko. Script writers include Joe Gill. 36 pages, with 6 strips and a short text story each issue. / According to the Grand Comics Database, these strips were originally produced for Charlton Comics, but when editor Al Fago left the company he "reportedly took the stories and sold them to ...
Crossan, Sarah
(1981- ) Irish author, mostly of nonfantastic fiction for the Young Adult market; she is of sf interest for the Near Future Hey, Zooey (2024), not written for an age group, which is set at a time when Android companions, fitted out for unlimitedly pliable Sex, have become part of the cultural landscape. The tale itself follows the complicated ...
Dee, John
(1527-1609) UK mathematician, astrologer, cartographer, Neoplatonist and Hermetic philosopher influential in the complex currents of the sixteenth-century English Renaissance; along with figures like Roger Bacon, he is an underlying model for later generations of the magus: half-Scientist, half-sorcerer. Because Dee stands on the cusp of worlds, and because of the passion with which he attempted to arrive at the truth behind the ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...