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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Gorodischer, Angélica
(1928-2022) Argentinian author of nonfiction and fiction works, active from the 1960s in both realist and fantastic modes, who was nevertheless very much identified as a science fiction writer. Gorodischer was also closely associated with the city of Rosario, home of her well-known character Trafalgar Medrano, introduced in her novel Trafalgar (1979; trans Amalia Gladhart 2013); this is constructed as a ...
Moore, Patrick
Working name of UK astronomer, scientific journalist, composer and author Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (1923-2012), son of Gertrude L Moore, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1945. He was best known over more than half a century for his work as a popular television personality; he presented the BBC television series The Sky at Night from its April 1957 launch until his death, missing only one episode (July 2004) through illness. Moore ...
Megalopolis
Film (2024). American Zoetrope/Caesar Films. Written, co-produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Cast includes Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Lawrence Fishburne, Dustin Hoffman, Shia LaBeouf, Audrey Plaza and Jon Voight. 138 minutes. Colour. / In an Alternate-History twenty-first century, America has developed along the lines of the Roman Republic, and the capital, New Rome, is run by a group of patrician families. The ...
Jensen, Bruce
(1962- ) US illustrator of whom Vincent Di Fate wrote in Infinite Worlds (1997): "Bruce Jensen's impeccably done illustrations in airbrush and acrylics are more conceptual than literal and are a refreshing departure from the highly narrative works that now dominate the SF paperback book racks." Like Richard Powers and Diane and Leo Dillon ...
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 ...