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Crawshay-Williams, Eliot
(1879-1962) UK politician (Liberal Member of Parliament 1910-1913), playwright and author, whose surname at birth was Williams; when he adopted the full hyphenated surname is uncertain; in active service during World War One, and as a playwright (his dramas were nonfantastic) from around 1930. His first novel of any sf interest, Night in No Time: A Novel (1946) is a Timeslip fantasy. His ...
Guttenberg, Elyse
(1952- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Selena's Song" in Spaceships and Spells: A Collection of New Fantasy and Science-Fiction Stories (anth 1987) edited by Martin H Greenberg, Charles G Waugh and Jane Yolen. The hints of Dream Hacking in her first novel, Sunder, Eclipse & Seed ...
Owl House, The
US animated tv series (2020-2023). Disney Television Animation (see Disney on Television). Creator and Executive Producer Dana Terrace. Directors include Bosook Coburn, Aminder Dhaliwal, Stu Livingston, Amelia Lorenz, Stephen Sandoval and Bridget Underwood. Writers include Mikki Crisostomo, Charley Feldman, Madeleine Hernandez, Zach Marcus, Molly Ostertag, John Bailey Owen, Avi Roque, Dana Terrace and Rachel Vine. Voice cast includes Alex Hirsch, ...
Delicatessen
French film (1990). Constellation/UCG/Hachette Premiere with the collaboration of Sofinergie/Sofinergie 2/Investimage 2/Investimage 3. Directed and written by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. Cast includes Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Ticky Holgado, Jacques Mathou, Dominique Pinon, Anne-Marie Pisani, Rufus, and Karin Viard. 99 minutes. Colour. / This film is an Absurdist fable about ...
Forrest, Maryann
Pseudonym of UK painter, sculptor, designer, librettist and author Polly Hope (1933-2013), in whose Here (Away from it All) (1969; vt Here 1970), visitors and expats caught on a Greek Island after an apocalyptic Future War attempt to deal with the grim Post-Holocaust life in store for them; they do not do well. [JC]
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 ...