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Village, The
Film (2004). Touchstone Pictures (see The Walt Disney Company) presents a Blinding Edge Productions/Scott Rudin production. Written and directed by M Night Shyamalan. Cast includes Adrien Brody, Brendan Gleeson, Bryce Dallas Howard, William Hurt, Joaquin Phoenix and Sigourney Weaver. 103 minutes. Colour. / An enigmatic preindustrial community menaced by half-glimpsed ...
Walker, Paul
(1942-2007) US critic and author in whose sf novel, Who Killed Utopia (1980), the first murder to have taken place for a century brings suspicion upon the poet/Computer at the heart of things. Walker contributed book reviews to Galaxy in 1978, and in the same year published a collection of thirty-one sometimes very informative postal Interviews, ...
MacDougall, Ian
Pseudonym of Scottish minister and author John Douglas Glennie (1896-1940), in active service during World War One; he also served in World War Two, dying in hospital soon after he was evacuated from Dunkirk. A Trip to Venus (1940) describes a voyage in the mode of the Scientific Romance to Venus, where a Utopia is ...
Star Trek: Generations
Film (1994). Paramount. Produced by Rick Berman. Directed by David Carson. Written by Ronald D Moore and Brannon Braga, based on a story by Berman, Moore and Braga. Cast includes LeVar Burton, James Doohan, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Walter Koenig, Malcolm McDowell, Gates McFadden, William Shatner, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner and Patrick Stewart. 117 minutes. Colour. / This ...
Cahun, Léon
(1841-1900) French Orientalist and author whose Les aventures du Capitaine Magon; ou, une exploration Phénicienne milles ans avant l'ère chrétien (1875; trans Ellen E Frewer as The Adventures of Captain Mago; or, a Phoenician Expedition, B.C. 1000 1876) follows the Phoenician Captain on a Fantastic Voyage, first northwards to Finland, then around Africa, visiting (en passant) the Queen of Sheba. ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...