SF Encyclopedia Home Page
Sunday 3 November 2024
Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Fourth Edition. Some sample entries appear below. Click here for the Introduction; here for the masthead; here for Acknowledgments; here for the FAQ; here for advice on citations. Find entries via the search box above (more details here) or browse the menu categories in the grey bar at the top of this page.
Site updated on 28 October 2024
Sponsor of the day: The League of Fan Funds
Frozen Alive
Film (1964; original title Der Fall X701). Alfa Films/Feature Film Corporation of America (US), Butcher's Film Service (UK). Directed by Bernard Knowles. Written by Evelyn Frazer. Cast includes Marianne Koch, Delphi Lawrence, Walter Rilla, Joachim Stein and Mark Stevens. 81 minutes. Black and white. / Dr Frank Overton (Stevens) is working on Suspended Animation at the Low Temperature Research Laboratory (see ...
Kindberg, Tim
(? - ) UK computer scientist and author who is of moderate sf interest for his first novel, The Vampires of Avonmouth (2021), an Equipoisal tale featuring a sea-borne Invasion of untraditional Vampires – energy eaters rather than blood suckers – in distant Near Future suburban Bristol (see ...
Slipstream SF
A term devised, apparently by Bruce Sterling – in part as a pun on, or echo of, Mainstream – to designate stories which make use of sf devices but which are not Genre SF. The image is either nautical or aeronautical: a ship or an airplane (either of which stands for genre sf) can create a slipstream which may be strong enough to give non-paying passengers (Paul ...
Foyle, Naomi
(? - ) UK editor, poet and author whose first novel, Seoul Survivors (2013), is a Near Future thriller set just before a meteor known as Lucifer's Hammer threatens to devastate the planet, as in Larry Niven's and Jerry Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer (1977), about a Comet striking Earth. A plot to use ...
Hughes, Dorothy B
(1904-1993) US author, active from around 1930, of hard-edged, noirish detective novels. She also wrote one sf novel, The Delicate Ape (1944), which involves international intrigue a decade hence in a Near Future New York, where a defeated Germany has been plotting to gain international approval, at the upcoming "Peace Conclave", for the end of Allied occupation and for the right to re-arm. The threat of ...
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 ...