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Terminator, The
Film (1984). Cinema '84/Pacific Western/Orion. Produced by Gale Anne Hurd. Directed by James Cameron. Written by Cameron, Hurd. Cast includes Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger. 107 minutes. Colour. / In 2029 CE a vicious Future War between humans and Machines is raging. To ensure their victory, the machines send back a ...
Invisible Boy, The
Film (1957). Pan/MGM. Directed by Herman Hoffman. Written by Cyril Hume, based on "Invisible Boy" (23 June 1956 Saturday Evening Post; vt "The Brain Child" in Tomorrow's Gift, coll 1958) by Edmund Cooper. Cast includes Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster, Richard Eyer and Harold J Stone. 90 minutes. Black and white. / In this well-written and well-made ...
Gibbs, Lewis
Pseudonym of UK author Joseph Walter Cove (1891-1972), whose writing career began after active service in World War One. He is now remembered mainly for his biographies, though some of his fiction is of interest. In Parable for Lovers (1934), which is Fantasy, an expatriate Englishman falls in love with a wood-nymph in Greece. In his sf novel, Late Final (1951), an Englishman parachutes into England after ...
Willer, Jim
(1921-circa 2007) British-born Canadian painter and author whose sf novel, Paramind (1973), set mainly in Vancouver, takes a Dystopian view of the domineering role of a Computer gone rogue in an automated twenty-first-century world (see Automation). [JC]
Jennings, Hargrave
(?1817-1890) UK author, who may have also written as by Sha Rocco, though it is much more likely that books under that name were by Abisha S Hudson (1819-1904). Jennings published some studies in the occult, most famously The Rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries; with chapters on the ancient fire- and serpent-worshippers (1870; several revised editions), and several miscellanies, these assembling essays in cultural criticism along with tales meant usually to illustrate his ...
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 ...