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Szathmári, Sándor
(1897-1974) Hungarian engineer and author whose Gulliver utazása Kazohiniában ["Gulliver's Travels in Kazohinia"] (1941; final rev as Kazohinia 1957; trans Inez Kemenes as Kazohinia 1975; trans rev vt as Voyage to Kazohinia 2012) [for details see Checklist] is a complex, scathingly comic Satire on twentieth century versions of Utopia. Composed as a ...
Nimona
US animated film (2023). Annapurna Pictures. Based on the web Comic Nimona (2012-2014) by ND Stevenson, assembled as the Graphic Novel Nimona (graph 2015). Directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane. Written by Robert L Baird and Lloyd Taylor. Voice cast includes Riz Ahmed, Charlotte Aldrich, Frances Conroy, Chloë Grace Moretz, Lorraine Toussaint, Eugene Lee Yang and Karen Ryan. 99 minutes. Colour. / ...
Rutherford, Meg
(1932-2006) Australian sculptor, illustrator and author, in UK at least intermittently from 1958; she is of some sf interest for The Beautiful Island (graph 1969), which is collage-based. The narrative is ostensibly pure fantasy – birds persuade the battered houses and edifices of northern lands to migrate south to a paradisal Island – but uses proto-Steampunk devices literally to carry the tale, for the ...
Tearmoon Empire
Japanese animated tv series (2023; original title Tearmoon Teikoku Monogatari: Dantōdai kara Hajimaru, Hime no Tensei Gyakuten Story). Based on the Light Novels by Nozomu Mochitsuki. Directed by Yūshi Ibe, Written by Deko Akao. Voice cast includes Shun Horie, Tomori Kusunoki, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Kanon Takao, Sumire Uesaka and Yuichiro Umehara. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / Mia Luna Tearmoon (Uesaka), ...
Ole Luk-Oie
The best-known pseudonym of India-born UK military thinker and author Ernest Dunlop Swinton (1868-1951), who served in various capacities in the UK army from 1888 until he retired in 1919 with the rank of Major-General. His first book, The Defence of Duffer's Drift: A Few Experiences in Field Defence for Detached Posts Which May Prove Useful in Our Next War (1904 chap) as by Backsight Forethought, is couched as a sequence of fantasticated dreams in which Lieutenant Forethought ...
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 ...