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Hyperspace
In sf Terminology, a kind of specialized space through which Spaceships can take a short cut in order to get rapidly from one point in "normal" space to another far distant. The term was probably invented by John W Campbell Jr in Islands of Space (Spring 1931 Amazing Stories Quarterly; 1957). It is now so thoroughly incorporated into ...
Martin, J P
(1879-1966) UK author, a Methodist minister from 1902; he carried out missionary work in South Africa and was a chaplain in World War One, thereafter remaining in England. His popular Uncle sequence of absurdist children's stories – with, it proved, lasting appeal to adults – comprises Uncle (written 1934; 1964), Uncle Cleans Up (1965), Uncle and His Detective (1966), ...
Dickberry, F
Pseudonym of French/Scottish author Anne Francoise Fernande Richards Eglatine Burnup (1854-1931), identified as Fernande Richards Eglatine Blaze de Bury in the 25 October 1905 San Francisco Call and perhaps elsewhere; she married James M Burnup in 1881. Her first novel, The Storm of London: A Social Rhapsody (1904), casually conflates sf and fantasy tropes in its depiction of a London where, after a giant storm, all ...
Kaiba
Japanese animated tv series (2008). Madhouse. Directed and written by Masaaki Yuasa. Voice cast includes Houko Kuwashima, Wasabi Mizuta, Mamiko Noto, Romi Park, Chiwa Saito. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / The Amnesiac Kaiba (Kuwashima) travels to strange worlds hoping to discover his identity; en route his mind is decanted into a large toy hippo, then (for most ...
Scavenger's Reign
US animated tv series (2023). Titmouse Inc, Green Street Pictures. Created by Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner, based on their animated short Scavengers (2016). Directed by Joseph Bennett, Charles Huettner, Jonathan Djob Nkondo, Diego Porral, Rachel Reid, Christine Jie-Eun Shin and Vincent Tsui. Writers include Joseph Bennett, Sean Buckelew, Charles Huettner and James Merrill. Voice cast includes Sunita Mani, Pollyanna McIntosh, Wunmi Mosaku, Alia Shawkat, Bob ...
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 ...