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Eden
Japanese/US Anime online series (2021). CGCG Studio Inc., Qubic Pictures. Created by Justin Leach. Directed by Yasuhiro Irie. Written by Kimiko Ueno. Voice cast includes Kyōko Hikami, Kentarō Itō, Yūko Kaida, Marika Kouno, Yūki Kuwahara and Kōichi Yamadera. Four 25-minute episodes. Colour. / We open with JustinRobotics' Code of Ethics (a variation on the ...
Freakazoid!
US animated tv series (1995-1997; vt Steven Spielberg Presents Freakazoid!). Amblin Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation. Created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini. Developed by Tom Ruegger. Executive producer Steven Spielberg. Directors include Rich Arons, Ronaldo Carmen, Jack Heiter, Scott Jeralds, Eric Radomski and Peter Shin. Writers include Paul Dini, John McCann, Tom Ruegger and Paul Rugg. Voice cast includes Jeff Bennett, David Kaufman, ...
Creature that Ate Sheboygan, The
Board and counter Wargame (1979). Simulations Publications Inc (SPI). Designed by Greg Costikyan. / Creature is an entertaining and highly playable game inspired by such 1950s B-movies as Godzilla (1954) (see Gojira) and The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). One player constructs a gigantic ...
Agell, Charlotte
(1959- ) Swedish-born author, raised in Canada and Hong Kong, in US from 1977. Author of several picture books for younger children, and of Shift (2008), a Young Adult novel set in a Dystopian America, some time after a nuclear Holocaust has devastated the Eastern Seaboard; fundamentalist Christianity (see Religion) has taken over the ...
Bonesteel, Elizabeth
(? - ) US author whose Central Corps sequence, beginning with The Cold Between (2016), is a Space Opera series in which romance and interstellar conspiracies initially intertwine, though (perhaps encouragingly) larger scale problems confront General Corps Commander Elena Shaw. Her departure from the military (Military SF elements are modestly in evidence throughout) ...
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 ...