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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 ...
Hogan, James P
(1941-2010) UK-born systems-design engineer and author, in the USA from 1977 and latterly in Ireland; he was a full-time author from 1979. His first novel (and first publication), Inherit the Stars (1977), aroused interest for the exhilarating sense it conveys of scientific minds at work on real problems and for the genuinely exciting scope of the sf imagination it deploys. The book turned out to be the first volume in the Minervan Experiment/Giants sequence, being followed ...
Regeneration
A minor but persistent sf wish-fulfilment related to Medicine is the fantasy of regrowing amputated limbs and recovering from other normally irrevocable physical losses. The often invoked analogy is with primitive creatures like salamanders and starfish which are able to regenerate severed parts; can future science not confer a similar ability on human beings? One well-known sf example is the "Phillips treatment" introduced in E E ...
Storm, Jannick
Working name of Danish author, critic, editor and translator Finn Jannick Storm Jørgensen (1939-2015), whose importance was first acknowledged outside the Nordic countries in the dedication of Brian Aldiss's sf overview Billion Year Spree (1973): "To Jannick Storm, who colonised Denmark". The implication is hardly literally true: Storm himself encountered sf as a teenager, via cheap (generally abridged) ...
Black Hole, The
Film (1979). Walt Disney (see The Walt Disney Company). Directed by Gary Nelson. Written by Jeb Rosebrook, Gerry Day, based on a story by Rosebrook, Bob Barbash, Richard Landau. Cast includes Ernest Borgnine, Joseph Bottoms, Robert Forster, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins and Maximilian Schell. 98 minutes. Colour. / The disappointment of its year in sf movies, this was a ludicrous though expensive reprise in space of Disney's ...
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 ...