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Armstrong, Kelley
(1968- ) Canadian author, whose many fantasy novels, usually published in series, and often with a romance timbre, are not listed below. She is of sf interest for the Rip Through Time sequence beginning with A Rip Through Time (2022), whose protagonist finds herself via Timeslip in various predicaments, housed in various bodies, in various eras. Some echoes of Marghanita ...
Jellystone!
US animated online tv series (2021-current). Warner Bros. Animation. Based on characters created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Developed by C H Greenblatt. Directors include Aaron Austin, Hannah Ayoubi and Careen Ingle. Writers include C. H. Greenblatt, Ian Mutchler and Ian Wasseluk. Voice cast includes Jeff Bergman, Jim Conroy, C H Greenblatt and Grace Helbig. Season one: ten 22-minute episodes (each with two segments); season two, nineteen eleven-minute episodes; there were also ...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1. Film (1956). Allied Artists. Produced by Walter Wanger. Directed by Don Siegel. Written by Daniel Mainwaring, Sam Peckinpah (uncredited), based on The Body Snatchers (10-24 December 1954 Collier's Weekly; 1955; vt Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1973; rev 1978) by Jack Finney. Cast includes King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. 80 minutes. Black and ...
Nievo, Ippolito
(1831-1861) Italian soldier and author of a short Future History, "Storia filosofica dei secoli futuri fin all'anno E. V. 2222 ovvero fino alla vigilia incirca della fine del mondo" ["Philosophical History of Future Centuries until the year 2222, or, until circa the End of the World"] in Strenna dell'Uomo di Pietra per l'anno 1860 (anth 1860), which anticipates (in line with his involvement in the Italian ...
Sci Fi
Pronounced "si fi" or sometimes "sky fi"; often hyphenated. An abbreviation for "science fiction" whose first recorded use was in 1954, when the term "hi-fi" (high-fidelity) was becoming popular in the context of audio equipment. The wordplay-loving Forrest J Ackerman claimed to have invented the term and later promoted it eagerly in his Famous Monsters of Filmland (1958-1983). However, Ackerman's first known ...
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 ...