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Jacomb, C E
(1888-1961) UK editor and author who was in active service during World War One; he is the author of one Scientific Romance, And A New Earth: A Romance (1926), which combines the Utopian and Future War genres: a millionaire has established on Easter Island (see Island) an elitist ...
Waters, Steve
(1965- ) UK academic and playwright, whose works have been staged since the late 1990s. Of sf interest is The Contingency Plan: On the Beach & Resilience (coll of linked plays 2009); both plays, which were first performed in 2009 in London, are set in a Near Future Britain suffering the consequences of Climate Change, with an emphasis on inundation – Bristol is already underwater. ...
Outer Limits Newsletter
US letter-size saddle-stapled photocopied Fanzine printed on low-grade paper. Editor/publisher: Steve Streeter. Eight issues, January 1978 to Autumn 1983. Publication schedule was highly erratic. / This was in effect an unofficial follow-up to The Outer Limits: An Illustrated Review (which see), largely illustrated and written by Streeter alone. The first four issues were black-and-white only; #5 ...
District 9
Film (2009). Peter Jackson presents in association with Tristar Pictures and Block/Hanson a WingNut Films production/with the assistance of the Department of Trade and Industry South Afirca. Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Cast includes Jason Cope, Sharlto Copley, Vanessa Haywood and David James. 112 minutes. Colour. / 1983. Narrated backstory. A crewless interstellar ship is detected hovering over ...
Garlick, Nicholas
(? - ) UK author – using his real name, not a pseudonym derived from the Catholic recusant and martyr of that name (circa 1555-1588) – of one sf novel, California Dreaming (1981), for Robert Hale Limited, in which Drugs are able, at least in California, to make thoughts real. [JC]
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 reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...