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Yi, Anicka
(1971- ) South Korean artist, based in New York, known for innovative work with biologists, parfumiers and chefs to create installations that engage smell and taste as well as sight. In Love with the World (2021) uses AI to create amoeba-like dirigibles called "aerobes" (see Airships), which float around the gallery space according to rules dictated by the AI. Yi's stated intent with this work was ...
Faust, Minister
Pseudonym of Canadian radio host (most famously of Terrordome, a news/comment programme focusing on issues affecting Black Canadians), politician, controversialist and author Malcolm Azania (1969- ) whose first novel, The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2004), combines Recursive SF elements with material also taken from fantasy and horror – some of this material being derived from books, but much of ...
Red Faction
Videogame (2001). Volition. Platforms: Mac, PS2, Win (2001); Phone (2003). / Red Faction is a First Person Shooter, set on Mars and often suggestive of the less sophisticated scenes in Total Recall (1990). Its linear story follows the adventures of an oppressed miner (the player character) who becomes involved in a rebellion ...
Slaughter, Frank G
(1908-2001) US medical doctor and author, who also wrote historical thrillers as by C V Terry, active from the late 1930s; many of these historical works were written with the silent collaboration of William DuBois (1903-1997). His other novels frequently highlighted Medicine and new medical Technology. Of sf interest are Epidemic! (1961), in which a plague created by Communists infests ...
Outer Limits, The
1. US tv series (1963-1965). A Daystar/Villa di Stefano Production for United Artists, ABC TV. Created by Leslie Stevens, also executive producer. Produced by Joseph Stefano (season 1), Ben Brady (season 2). Writers included Stefano (many episodes), Stevens, David Duncan, Robert Towne, Harlan Ellison, Meyer Dolinsky, John Mantley, Jerry ...
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 ...