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Pinocchio in Outer Space
Belgium/US animated film (1965). Belvision Studios. Based on the character and story Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) by Carlo Collodi. Directed by Ray Goossens. Written by Fred Ladd (from an idea by co-producer Norm Prescott). Voice cast includes Jess Cain, Conrad Jameson, Kevin Kennedy, Peter Lazer, Mavis Mims, Ray Owens, Minerva Pious and Arnold Stang. 70 minutes. Colour. / The audience is assured that ...
Danger and Eggs
US animated online series (2015-2017). Amazon Studios, PUNY, Saerom Animation. Created by Mike Owens and Shadi Petosky. Directors include Sarah Seember Huisken, Mike Owens and Drew Schmidt. Writers include Sofiya Alexandra, Alex Fox, Eric Knobel, Rachel Lewis, Bob Mittenthal and Shadi Petosky. Voice cast includes Aidy Bryant and Eric Knobel. Thirteen 24-minute episodes, each with two segments, save for the finale. Colour. / The young daughter of a stunt rider, D D Danger (Bryant) ...
Daniel, Tony
(1963- ) US author who began publishing sf with "For the Killed Astronauts" in Asimov's for December 1990, and who has been fairly prolific in the 1990s. His first novel, Warpath (June 1991 Asimov's as "Candle"; exp 1993), was admired for its ambitious scope, though it is overloaded with material, and slides (at points uncontrolledly) from sf to Magic Realism to myth ...
Rankin-Gee, Rosa
(1986- ) UK editor and author, resident in France. Her first novel, the Young Adult Last Kings of Sark (2013), is a nonfantastic coming-of-age tale whose setting on Sark achieves an intensity close to the fantastic. Dreamland (2021) is placed in a Near Future Britain, partially submerged due to the consequences of Climate Change. The young ...
Griffiths, Isabel
(? -? ) Author, presumably UK, of whom nothing is know beyond her one sf novel, Three Worlds (1922), set in a universe where, by a device that anticipates the Multiverse of later generations, three different versions of the protagonist's world exist simultaneously: one mundane; the second oneiric; the third metaphysical. [JC]
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 ...