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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 ...
Zornado, J
(1964- ) US academic and author whose Future History sequence, beginning with 2050 Volume One: Gods of Little Earth (2007; rev vt 2050: A Future History, Volume 1: Gods of Little Earth 2011), is set partly in the very Near Future and two millennia later, in what has become a virtual Ruined Earth as a consequence of a piling up of ...
Malzberg, Barry N
(1939-2024) US anthologist, editor and author, who also wrote as by K M O'Donnell, mainly for some of his early sf work, a name apparently derived from the initial letters of the surnames of Henry Kuttner and C L Moore plus the surname of one of their joint pseudonyms; he also wrote non-sf titles as by Mike Barry for the long non-sf Night Raider sequence, Claudine Dumas, Mel Johnson, Lee W Mason and Gerrold Watkins. He ...
Alarming Tales
US Comic (1957-1958). Six issues. Western Tales Inc. Artists include Jack Kirby, Joe Simon and Doug Wildey. Script writers include Jack Kirby and Jack Oleck. Four long strips (4-6 pages) and three or four short (1-2 pages) strips or text stories per issue. / The first issue of this short-lived comic is very good. Highlights are "The Cadmus Seed", where biochemist Horace Googer develops tiny seeds which grow into plant-based humans ...
Patrick
Australian film (1978). AIFC/Antony I Ginnane/Filmways Australasia. Directed by Richard Franklin. Produced by Franklin and Antony I Ginnane. Executive producer William Fayman. Written by Everett de Roche. Special effects by Conrad C Rothmann. Cast includes Bruce Barry, Julia Blake, Robert Helpmann, Helen Hemingway, Rod Mullinar, Susan Penhaligon and Robert Thompson. 115 minutes. Colour. / Patrick (Thompson) lies in a coma in the seedy private hospital owned by Dr Roget (Helpmann). ...
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 ...