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Yolen, Jane
(1939-2026) US author, partially resident in Scotland, who began publishing poems and articles when still in college, and who first came to notice with books for children, the first of many being Pirates in Petticoats (1963). Of her circa 460 titles, many of which won awards in her field, most were for children (see listing below for some of these), many of them being picture books for younger children; most of her adult fiction, of which she wrote relatively little, was ...
Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare
Japanese film (1968). Original title Yōkai Daisensō; vt The Great Yokai War. Daiei Film. Directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda. Written by Tetsurō Yoshida. Cast includes Yoshihiko Aoyama, Chikara Hashimoto, Takashi Kanda, Akane Kawasaki and Osamu Ōkawa. 80 minutes. Colour. / Seven thousand years ago a Monster (Hashimoto) began hibernating in the ruins of Ur, once capital of Babylonia; awakened thousands ...
Extant
US tv series (2014-2015). Tristar Television and Sony International Television for CBS. Created by Mickey Fisher. Executive producers included Halle Berry, Mickey Fisher, Steven Spielberg and Greg Walker. Directors include Adam Arkin, Kevin Dowling, Adam Kane, Dan Lerner and Christine Moore. Writers include Leslie Bohem, Eliza Clark, Mickey Fisher and Gavin Johannsen. Cast includes Halle Berry, Pierce Gagnon, Grace Gummer, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, ...
Stewart, Michael
UK author and economist (1933- ). With Peter Jay (whom see for details) he wrote Apocalypse 2000: Economic Breakdown and the Suicide of Democracy, 1898-2000 (1987). [JC]
Bertin, Jack
Pseudonym of Italian-born author Giovanni Bertignono (1904-1963), who moved to the US in 1907 and who published frequently from the late 1920s in various Pulp magazines, his first work being Western stories as Jack Bertin; in magazines, he published his sf or fantasy as John Bertin. His only sf novel, Brood of Helios (May-July 1932 Wonder Stories as by John Bertin; 1966), whose book version ...
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 ...