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Film (2009). Twentieth Century Fox in association with Dune Entertainment and Ingenious Film Partners present a Lightstorm Entertainment production. Written and directed by James Cameron. Cast includes Stephen Lang, Joel David Moore, Giovanni Ribisi, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoë Saldana, Sigourney Weaver and Sam Worthington. Original version 162 minutes; 2010 Special Edition 170 minutes. Colour, 3D. / Cameron's first science fiction film since ...
Stellvia of the Universe
Japanese animated tv series (2003; original title Uchu no Stellvia; vt Stellvia). Produced by Xebec; directed by Tatsuo Sato; written by Mitsuyasu Sakai, Katsuhiko Koide, Ichiro Okouchi, Tatsuo Satō, and Katsuhiko Chiba. Music by Seikou Nagaoka. Voice cast includes Ai Nonaka, Yuki Matsuoka, Megumi Toyoguchi and Takahiro Mizushima. 26 episodes of 25 minutes. Colour. / Set in 2356 CE, 189 years after a supernova shockwave ...
Warner, Rex
Working name of UK author and translator Reginald Ernest Warner (1905-1986) who remains best known for his earliest novels for adults, The Wild Goose Chase (1937), The Professor (1938) and The Aerodrome: A Love Story (1941), political allegories some of whose devices evoke the Kafka-esque side of sf (see Absurdist SF; Fabulation). In ...
Captain Flash
US Comic (1954-1955). Sterling Comics Inc. Four issues. Artists include Mort Meskin and Mike Sekowsky. 36 pages, with four long strips (three featuring Captain Flash and one Tomboy) and a two page text piece – usually fiction, but in #2 a nonfiction piece on the problems of Rocket-powered Space Flight. / #1 opens with Superhero Captain Flash ...
Khoury, Raymond
(1960- ) Lebanon-born investment banker, screenwriter, illustrator and author, mostly either in US from 1975 or latterly in the UK. His Last Templar sequence beginning with The Last Templar (2005), in which a contemporary archaeologist begins to discover, via papers and treasure hidden in a pouch, the true Secret Masters history of the Knights Templar; she is soon joined by an FBI agent. Some scenes are set in the ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...