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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Severance
US tv series (2022-current). Endeavour Content / Red Hour Films, distributed by Apple TV+. Created by Dan Erickson. Directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle. Written by Dan Erickson. Other writers are Andrew Colville, Kari Drake, Anna Ouyang Moench, Amanda Overton, Helen Leigh and Chris Black. Cast includes Patrician Arquette, Michael Chernus, Zach Cherry, Dichen Lachman, Britt Lower, Adam Scott, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, John Turturro and Christopher Walken. Nine 40-57 minute ...
Girls' Last Tour
Japanese animated tv series (2017); original title Shōjo Shūmatsu Ryokō. White Fox. Based on the Manga by Tsukumizu. Directors include Takaharu Ozaki. Writers: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu and Tsukumizu. Voice cast includes Kana Hanazawa, Yurika Kubo and Inori Minase. Twelve (24 minute) episodes. Colour. / A brief flashback conveys that soldiers arriving at their settlement led to "grandfather" persuading sensible ...
Jantunen, John
(1971- ) Canadian author whose first novels, beginning with fallingoverstandingstill (2013), are nonfantastic, as is his thriller sequence, the Tilden Chronicles, beginning with No Quarter (2018) [nonfantastic titles are not listed below]. His first book of sf interest, A Desolate Splendor (2016), is set along the northern wilderness edge of a Ruined Earth land, seemingly after ...
Whitlock, Vaughan
(1950- ) Australian author now in New Zealand whose anti-Feminist Dystopian Satire, Human Stock (2001), posits a distant Near Future world with women taking advantage of their dominance by created a state of Slavery for men, who are Cloned to fit into their abject roles. ...
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 ...