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Planeta de las Mujeres Invasoras, El
["Planet of the Female Invaders"] Mexican film (1966; vt Planet of the Female Invaders). Estudios América/Producciones Corsa. Directed by Alfredo B Crevenna. Written by Emilio Gómez Muriel and Alfredo Ruanova. Cast includes Elizabeth Campbell, Ethel Carrillo, Graciela Doring, José Ángel "Ferrusquilla" Espinosa, José Gálvez, Rogelio Guerra, Maura Monti, Guillermo Murray, Raúl Ramirez, Adriana Roel and ...
Rutter, Owen
(1889-1944) US-born soldier, publisher and author, in UK from an early age, in active service during World War One; his Tiadatha sequence, a parody of The Song of Hiawatha (1855) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) beginning with The Song of Tiadatha (1919 The Balkan News as by Klip-Klip; 1919), is a book-length Parody set in and after the conflict; it contains fantasy elements. ...
Writers of the Future Contest
This contest, originally sponsored by L Ron Hubbard and later, after his death, by Bridge Publications and subsequently Galaxy Press in the USA, is between short stories or novelettes of sf or fantasy submitted by novice authors who have previously published no more than three short stories or one novelette. Contests have been held quarterly since 1984; the three place-getters receive cash awards as well as publication in the ...
Year 24 Group
["Nijūyo-nen-gumi"] Critical shorthand used in Japanese Manga Fandom and academia to describe the community of female creators who transformed girls' comics in the 1970s, making a striking and enduring impact on multiple genres, including sf (see Women SF Writers). The name derives from the happenstance that several of the prime movers in the field were born in or around ...
O'Mahony, Daniel
(1973- ) UK author, chiefly of Ties to the Doctor Who universe, beginning with Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Falls the Shadow (1994); of these, Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures: The Man in the Velvet Mask (1996) stands out for its inclusion of the Marquis de Sade as a central character. Force Majeure (2007) is a Fabulation with marginal sf ...
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 ...