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Amazing Digital Circus, The
Australian/US animated webseries (2023-current). Glitch. Created, directed and written by Gooseworx (Cooper Smith Goodwin). Voice cast includes Sean Chiplock, Lizzie Freeman, Gooseworx, Jack Hawkins, Amanda Hufford, Michael Kovach, Marissa Lenti, Ashley Nichols, Skye Redden and Alex Rochon. Nine episodes, eight of approximately 25 minutes; final episode 58 minutes. Colour. / Premiering on YouTube in October 2023, the The Amazing Digital Circus ...
Kenward, James
(1908-1994) UK author, mostly of nonfiction studies and memoirs. Summervale: A Fantasy (1935) is a tale in which a man is transformed into a Dog. The framing narrative of The Story of the Poor Author: And Some of the Stories He Told (coll of linked stories 1959) is sf, involving Spaceships; the stories told are various. [JC]
Moulder, Victor
(1867-1949) US author of a Lost Race novel, Ophiris; Or, the Ophir of Solomon: A Story of Adventure & Love in the Land of the Incas (1902), set as its subtitle implies in the mountains of Brazil and Peru, where a civilization descended from the Incan empire is discovered; the tale interjects some occult Solomonic material. [JC]
Greene, John O
(1823-1911) US lawyer, farmer and author of one novel, The Ke Whonkus People: A Story of the North Pole Country (1893), whose protagonist, after having steamed into northern waters, trek northwards where they discover the eponymous Lost World clemently surrounding the pole, and containing a Utopia inhabited by several million whites. The original settlers were Adam and Eve, who arrived by ...
Ultimate Warrior, The
Film (1975). Warner Bros. Written and directed by Robert Clouse. Cast includes Yul Brynner, Joanna Miles, William Smith and Max von Sydow. 92 minutes. Colour. / New York in 2022 CE is in an advanced state of decay after a man-made biological catastrophe that occurred decades earlier. The leader of a group who have barricaded a street against gangs of thugs roaming outside hires the services of a super-Samurai (Brynner). This was promoted as the first Kung ...
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 ...