SF Encyclopedia Home Page
Saturday 21 September 2024
Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Fourth Edition. Some sample entries appear below. Click here for the Introduction; here for the masthead; here for Acknowledgments; here for the FAQ; here for advice on citations. Find entries via the search box above (more details here) or browse the menu categories in the grey bar at the top of this page.
Site updated on 17 September 2024
Sponsor of the day: Janine G Stinson
Blindness
Film (2008). Focus Features International presents an Alliance Films, Fox Filmes do Brasil, GAGA Communications, Asmik Ace Entertainment, Mikado, IFF/CNV, Téléfilm Canada, Ancine and Potboiler Productions production in association with TV Limited, Corus Entertainment, Fiat, BNDES and Cinema Investment with Rhombus Media, O2 Filmes and Bee Vine Pictures. Directed by Fernando Meirelles. Written by Don McKellar, adapted from the novel Ensaio sobre a cegueira ...
Lawrence, C E
(1870-1940) UK editor and author, of whose several novels, most of them fantasy, two are of sf interest: The Trial of Man: An Allegorical Romance (1902) anonymous, a mildly Equipoisal tale whose protagonist travels to the Moon and subsequently to heaven where the Angel Zuron assigns him a new planet where he breeds sinlessly with a new Eve (see Adam and Eve), but then fatally boasts of his ...
Tintera, Amy
(? - ) US author of the Near Future Young Adult Dystopian Reboot sequence beginning with Reboot (2013), whose young protagonist, having died, is reborn with enhanced abilities but with a Zombie-like lack of affect, making her an ideal recruit in the repressive regime's army, except for a sudden love interest, and ...
Chronicle [film]
Film (2012). Twentieth Century Fox presents a Davis Entertainment Company production. Directed by Josh Trank. Written by Trank with Max Landis. Cast includes Dane DeHaan, Michael B Jordan, Michael Kelly, Ashley Hinshaw, Bo Petersen and Alex Russell. 89 minutes. Colour. / Three teenagers develop Telekinesis after touching a meteorite. / "I bought a camera and I'm filming everything from here on out." / Rarely has the association between ...
Bell, M Shayne
(1957- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Earthlonging" for The Leading Edge in Winter 1981, and who was a 1987 winner of the Writers of the Future Contest for "Jacob's Ladder" (Fall 1985 Leading Edge); he has since published nearly 50 stories. His first novel, Nicoji (1991), effectively parlays a ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...