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Moore, Chris

(1947-2025) Prolific UK artist, known to the public primarily for his hard-edged treatment of Hard SF subjects, although in fact he produced covers in different styles for all sorts of other genres as well, including illustrations of record sleeves for artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo and Pentangle. What impressed most about Moore's sf art was not just the photographic realism but the sense of scale, achieved largely through a ...

Piller, Emanuel S

(1907-1985) US author, US editor, journalist and author, with Leonard Engel, of one of the very first Cold War Future War novels, The World Aflame: The Russian-American War of 1950 (1947), in which America's control of the air – and use of that preponderance in a nuclear first strike – proves insufficient to crush Russia, nor does a subsequent use of ...

Torchwood

UK tv series (2006-2011). Created by Russell T Davies. Producers include Davies, Julie Gardner, and Chris Chibnall. Directors include Andy Goddard, Ashley Way, and Euros Lyn. Writers include Davies, Chibnall, John Fay, and Catherine Tregenna. Cast includes John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness, Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper, Burn Gorman as Owen Harper (seasons 1-2), Naoko Mori as Toshiko Sato (seasons 1-2), and Gareth David-Lloyd as Ianto Jones (seasons ...

Dollhouse

US tv series (2009-2010). Mutant Enemy Productions and Boston Diva Productions for Fox. Created by Joss Whedon. Producers include Whedon, Tim Minear, Chris Cheramie, Eliza Dushku and Kelly A Manners. Writers include Whedon, Andrew Chambliss, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, Tracy Bellomo, and Jane Espenson. Directors include Whedon, Minear, David Solomon, and David Straiton. Cast includes Eliza Dushku as Echo/Caroline, Olivia Williams as Adelle DeWitt, ...

Cross, Malcolm

(?   -    ) UK author whose Dangerous Jade (2012) is set in an Equipoisal fantasy-themed City full of anthropomorphic Clones. Orbital Decay (2014 ebook) is a contribution to the publisher's Shared World Afterblight Chronicles series. He is also of sf interest for his contribution to the ...

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 ...



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