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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 ...
Lewis, Gwyneth
(1959- ) Welsh poet, active from the mid-1970s; she publishes in both Welsh and English. She is of sf interest for two narrative poems. Zero Gravity (1998) Equipoises two versions of significant journey: an astronaut's involvement in the repair of the Hubble Space Telescope; and an array of internal odysseys, at least one of them deathwards. More complexly, the Fantastic Voyage undertaken in ...
Common Side Effects
US animated tv series (2025). Green Street Pictures. Created by Joseph Bennett and Steve Hely. Directed by Camille Bozec, Sean Buckelew and Vincent Tsui. Writers include Steve Hely. Voice cast includes Joseph Lee Anderson, Danny Huston, Mike Judge, Martha Kelly, Dave King, Emily Pendergast and Sue Rose. Ten 23-minute episodes. Colour. / After protesting the environmental damage (see Ecology) in Peru caused by pharmaceutical company Reutical, Marshall Cuso ...
Kea, Neville
Pseudonym of UK author Christopher Hugh Neville-Smith (1920-1998), who wrote several sf novels for Robert Hale Limited, the first of which, The Glass School (1980), involves Psi Powers and a hint of Time Travel, along with a Satirical depiction of modern Britain. The further titles tend to less demanding Space Opera ...
Antill, Keith
(1929-1999) Australian broadcaster and author in whose sf novel, Moon in the Ground (1979), an unpleasant American military intelligence unit battles to extract an Alien AI from Australian territory. The Australians (and the Russians) resist. [JC]
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 reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...