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Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar
(1851-1935) US editor, journalist and author, much of his newspaper work published as by the Listener. He is of sf interest for The Ifs of History (coll 1907), a series of lightly fictionalized essays in Alternate History, each essay positing a Jonbar Point and tracing its implications. Essays include "If Charles II Had Accepted the Kingship of Virginia" and had returned to his British throne with a better ...
Freedom Force
Videogame (2002). Irrational Games (IG). Designed by Robb Waters, Ken Levine. Platforms: Mac, Win. / Freedom Force is a Computer Role Playing Game which emphasizes tactical combat, set in the 1962 of Silver Age Superhero Comics. The tone is knowing and self aware; it is not so much a game based on 1960s comics as a game about them. The ...
Earth II
American made-for-tv film (1971). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Directed by Tom Gries. Written by Allan Balter and William Read Woodfield. Cast includes Lew Ayres, Edward Bell, Anthony Franciosa, Mariette Hartley, Scott Hylands, Gary Lockwood, Hari Rhodes and Inga Swenson. 100 minutes. Colour. / After the United States places a large Space Station or Space Habitat in orbit, the President of the United States (Ayres) ...
Boffard, Rob
(1984- ) South African author also resident in London and Vancouver, who has also published sf as by Jackson Ford (see below). His Near Future Outer Earth sequence, beginning with Tracer (2015), is set partly on Earth and partly on an enormous Space Station in near-Earth orbit. Containing the remnants of Homo sapiens after the desecration and depopulation of Earth, this ...
Red Giant
Performance (2014). Composed by Adam Matlock; libretto by Brian Slattery; directed by Britt Olsen-Ecker. Produced by Rhymes With Opera, featuring Elisabeth Halliday (soprano), Bonnie Lander (soprano), and Robert Maril (baritone). / During their 2013-2014 season Rhymes With Opera produced Red Giant, a chamber opera composed by Adam Matlock for three singers and a small orchestra. Sf author Brian Francis Slattery wrote the libretto; ...
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 ...