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Gwen, or the Book of Sand
French animated film (1985; original title Gwen, ou le livre de sable; vt Gwen, the Book of Sand; vt Gwen; vt Gwen and the Book of Sand). La Fabrique, Films de la Demoiselle, Antenne 2. Directed by Jean-François Laguionie. Written by Jean-Pierre Gaspari and Jean-François Laguionie. Voice cast includes Armand Babel, Lorella Di Cicco, Raymond Jourdan and Michel Robin. 61 minutes. Colour. / Roseline (Robin), a 173-year-old woman, recalls a tale ...
Cady, Jack
(1932-2004) US author, almost exclusively of fantasy and horror, although one novel, The Man Who Could Make Things Vanish (1982), is a genuine sf Dystopia set in a very bleakly conceived Near-Future right-wing USA; The Sons of Noah & Other Stories (coll 1992), containing fantasies, won a World Fantasy Award for best collection, and "The Night We Buried Road ...
Baker, Pip
(? - ) Working name of UK scriptwriter and author Philip Baker, almost always in collaboration with his wife, Jane Baker (? - ); they collaborated on the script for the film Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969), and on four Doctor Who television scripts, which were then novelized as ...
Egan, Doris
(1955- ) US author and executive for television projects, and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Timerider" for Amazing in March 1986; her Ivory sequence – comprising The Gate of Ivory (1989), Two-Bit Heroes (1992) and Guilt-Edged Ivory (1992), all three assembled as The Complete Ivory (omni 2001) – unusually presents a set of essentially ...
Far Frontiers
US magazine in pocketbook format; it could also be regarded as an Original Anthology series. Quarterly, published by Baen Books, edited by Jerry Pournelle and James Baen and (uncredited) John F Carr; seven issues, from Far Frontiers (anth 1985) in January 1985 to Far Frontiers Vol VII (anth Winter ...
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 ...