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Moore, Chris
(1947-2025) Prolific UK artist, known to the public primarily for his hard-edged treatment of Hard SF subjects, although in fact he produced covers in different styles for all sorts of other genres as well, including illustrations of record sleeves for artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo and Pentangle. What impressed most about Moore's sf art was not just the photographic realism but the sense of scale, achieved largely through a ...
Terminator Genisys
Film (2015). Paramount Pictures/Skydance Productions. Directed by Alan Taylor. Written by Laeta Kalogridis, Patrick Lussler. Cast includes Wayne Bastrup, Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, Jai Courtney, Byung-hun Lee, Arnold Schwarzenegger, J K Simmons. 125 minutes. Colour. / Terminator Genisys is a remake/reboot of The Terminator (1984), which initiated the original Terminator sequence, plus ...
Dr Renault's Secret
Film (1942; vt Buried Alive). 20th Century Fox Films. Directed by Harry Lachman. Produced by Sol M Wurtzel. Written by William Bruckner and Robert F Meltzer based on Balaoo (9 October-18 December Le Matin; 1912; trans 1913) by Gaston Leroux. Cast includes Mike Mazurki (uncredited), J Carroll Naish, Lynne Roberts, Sheppard Strudwick (as John Shepperd), Jean Del Val (uncredited) and George Zucco. 58 minutes. Black and white. / ...
Michelson, Bennett
(? - ) US author of two sf thrillers, The Perfect Weapon (1980), whose eponymous Weapon is used for evil purposes, and The Chosen People (1982), also about a terrorist weapon capable of self-selecting its victims (see Paranoia). [JC]
Blum, Ralph
(1932-2016) US screenwriter and author involved in early Drug research, which is reflected in his sf novel The Simultaneous Man (1970). A Black convict undergoes, through advanced brainwashing, a Memory Edit that progressively erases his personality, rather as in Alfred Bester's earlier The Demolished Man (January-March 1952 Galaxy; 1953) or Robert ...
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 ...