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Moberg, Vilhelm
(1898-1973) Swedish playwright, nonfiction writer and author who published 18 novels, 38 stage or radio plays and 21 nonfiction books, four of them issued posthumously; he is most famous for his historical novels, perhaps primarily for his four-volume series The Emigrants (1949-1959; trans as The Emigrants, Unto a Good Land, The Settlers, and The Last Letter Home 1956-1959), following a group of Swedish ...
Ofshe, Richard
(1941- ) US sociologist, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His Anthology with critical commentary, The Sociology of the Possible (anth 1970) – aimed at students – is probably the best of the several pre-1980 collections designed to show the relevance of sf to Sociology. [PN/DRL]
Spellbinder
Australian tv series (1995). Film Australia and Telewizja Polska. Created by Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson. Producers include Noel Price, Ron Saunders and Andrzej Stempowski. Directed by Noel Price. Writers include Ron Saunders, Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson. Cast includes Krzysztof Kumor, Andrew McFarlane, Heather Mitchell, Gosia Piotrowska and Zbych Trofimiuk. 26 23-minute episodes. Colour. / This juvenile miniseries, produced in Australia and ...
Aronofsky, Darren
(1969- ) US filmmaker whose sf films to date have been the Mathematical psychodrama π or Pi (1998) and the Immortality quest epic The Fountain (2007); he also co-wrote David Twohy's World War Two haunted-submarine (see ...
Leonard, Paul
Working name of UK author Paul J Leonard Hinder (1961- ), who has also published as P J L Hinder, though his output of Ties for the Doctor Who universe has appeared exclusively under his working name, beginning with Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures: Venusian Lullaby (1994). These novels, which Leonard has declared were much influenced by the example of Jim ...
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 ...