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Among Us
US animated tv series (2026). Titmouse, Inc. CBS Studios. Created by Owen Dennis, based on the 2018 online multiplayer social deduction game developed and released by Innersloth. Directed by Owen Dennis and Madeline Queripel. Written by Owen Dennis, Kiran Deol, Brian David Gilbert, Karen Han, Alex Horab, Justin Michael and Madeline Queripel. Voice cast includes Yvette Nicole Brown, Kimiko Glenn, Liv Hewson, Ashley Johnson, Wayne Knight, Phil LaMarr, Patton Oswalt, Randall Park, Dan ...
Amazing Spider-Man, The
1. US tv series (1977-1979). Charles Fries Productions for CBS-TV. Character created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko for Marvel Comics, debuting in Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) and appearing in his own title The Amazing Spider-Man from March 1963. Produced by Robert Jones, Lionel E Siegel, Edward Montagne. Directors included Cliff Bole, Michael Caffey, Don MacDougall. ...
Adams, Glenda
(1939-2007) Australian author in USA and elsewhere from 1964 to 1990, whose first novel, Games of the Strong (1982), is a Near Future Dystopia whose female narrator and thematic concerns (the internalization of the colonial mentality; Imperialism in general; Feminism) associate her with authors like Doris ...
China Syndrome, The
Film (1979). IPC Films. Directed by James Bridges. Written by Mike Gray, T S Cook, Bridges. Cast includes Wilford Brimley, Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon. 122 minutes. Colour. / Made by the production company with which Jane Fonda was associated (Indochina Peace Campaign), this is the first of two crusading borderline-sf films starring her, the other being Rollover (1981). Here she plays a television reporter hoping to do more "hard" ...
Amazing Spider-Man 2, The
Film (2014). Columbia Pictures presents a Marvel Entertainment/Avi Arad/Matt Tolmach production. Directed by Marc Webb. Written by Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci & Jeff Pinkner; story by Kurtzman, Orci, Pinkner, and James Vanderbilt. Cast includes Dane de Haan, Sally Field, Jamie Foxx, Andrew Garfield, Paul Giamatti, Felicity Jones and Emma Stone. 142 minutes. Colour, 3D (converted). / Having broken his promise in The ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book ...