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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Sorry to Bother You
Film (2018). Significant Productions, MNM Creative, MACRO, Cinereach, The Space Program. Written and directed by Boots Riley. Cast includes Terry Crews, David Cross, Jermaine Fowler, Danny Glover, Arnie Hammer, Omari Hardwick, Passon Oswalt, LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson and Steven Yeun. 112 minutes. Colour. / "Cash" Green (Stanfield) is struggling in his new role as a telemarketer, until a colleague advises him to use a "white voice", which immediately results in a spike in ...
Kenin, Millea
(1942-1992) US editor, publisher, anthologist, poet and author active in Fandom, who began to release stories of genre interest with "The Knight of the Road" in Potboiler for February 1982. Under her birth name Millea Levin she was founder-editor of the Poetry journal Sciamachy (1960-1964), contributors with entries in this encyclopedia including John Clute and Thomas M ...
End of Time
As Robert Louis Stevenson famously wrote, "It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive." The sf interest of the End of Time lies in the getting there – especially the final stages of the journey – rather than the hypothetical place (or time) itself, which is presumably by definition event-free (but see Omega Point). / The most typical sf end-of-time scenario concerns the ...
Hill, Carol
(1942- ) US author whose first novel, Jeremiah 8:20 (1970), is a raucous Fabulation about the Apocalypse, whose protagonist becomes (or does not become) Master of the Universe. Her second, Let's Fall in Love (1974), ornately spoofs Sex, pornography and Politics in a vaguely fantastic 1970s milieu. The Eleven Million Mile High Dancer (1985; vt ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...