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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 ...
Fly II, The
Film (1989). Brooksfilms/Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Chris Walas. Written by Mick Garris, Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat, Frank Darabont, based on a story by Garris. Cast includes Lee Richardson, Eric Stoltz and Daphne Zuniga. 104 minutes. Colour. / This is a genuine sequel to the 1986 remake of The Fly, not just a lame excuse for more horrific "fly" effects. Chris Walas, the skilled technician who created those effects for the earlier film, here made ...
Threads
Made-for-tv film (1984). BBC-TV. Directed by Mick Jackson. Written by Barry Hines. Cast includes David Brierly, June Broughton, Reece Dinsdale, Karen Meagher, Henry Moxon and Sylvia Stoker. 115 minutes. Colour. / This BBC production, at once a UK equivalent of The Day After (1983) and an attempt to update the harrowing vision of Peter Watkins's The War Game ...
Dulaure, Jacques-Antoine
(1755-1835) French architect, journalist and author of the anonymous Proto SF tale Le retour de mon pauvre oncle, ou Relation de son voyage dans la lune ["The Return of my Poor Uncle, or a Recounting of his Trip to the Moon"] (1784 chap; trans Brian Stableford as "My Poor Uncle's Return" in On the Brink of the World's End anth 2016) [for subtitles see Checklist below], whose physicist protagonist ...
Nagamatsu, Sequoia
(1982- ) US academic, editor and author who began publishing work of interest with "Kenta's Posthumous Chrysanthemum" in New Delta Review for 2010, which appeared in his first collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (coll 2016). He is of sf interest for his first novel, How High We Go in the Dark (2022), in which a deadly Pandemic is caused when a virus escapes from the remains of a newly exhumed ...
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 ...