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Machine, La
French film (1994). France 2 Cinéma, Hachette Première, M6 Films. Directed by François Dupeyron. Written by René Belletto and François Dupeyron. Cast includes Nathalie Baye, Erwin Baynaud, Didier Bourdon, Gérard Depardieu and Natalia Wörner. 96 minutes. Colour. / Psychiatrist Marc Lacroix (Depardieu) secretly devises a Machine which will link his mind to another person, allowing him to study their thought ...
Hyde, Christopher
(1949- ) Canadian television interviewer and author, generally of Technothrillers, beginning with The Wave (1979) and continuing with titles like The Icarus Seal (1982) and Crestwood Heights (1988), the eponymous village under siege in the latter tale evoking Stephen King, Ira Levin's ...
Roth, Edward
(1826-1911) UK-born teacher and translator, in US from around 1845; his four translations of novels by Jules Verne are generally thought to have been the worst of a very mixed lot, but survived in reprint form well into the twentieth-century. [JC]
Heck, Peter J
(1941- ) US author, editor (formerly with Ace Books) and critic who as Peter Heck has written the "On Books" review column for the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction since its June 1994 issue; he has also contributed to Locus and The New York Review of Science Fiction. Solo fiction comprises the Mark Twain Mysteries sequence of historical ...
Casshan
Japanese animated tv series (1973-1974). Original title Shinzō Ningen Kyashān; vt Neo Human Casshern; vt Casshern. Tatsunoko Productions. Created by Tatsuo Yoshida. Directed by Hiroshi Sasagawa. Writers include Tadashi Fukui, Akiyoshi Sakai and Jinzo Toriumi. Voice cast includes Ikuo Nishikawa, Emiko Tsukada, Kenji Utsumi and Masato Yamanouchi. 35 25-minute episodes. / A cliff-top castle is lit by lightning, imagery doubtless ...
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 ...