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Jones, Matt
(1968- ) UK producer and writer for Television, mostly for British programmes with no fantastic content: he acted as script editor for Russell T Davies's Queer as Folk (1999-2000). Since 1995, however, he has been variously involved with Doctor Who, publishing two novels for the franchise: The New Adventures: Bad Therapy (1996) and ...
Steven Universe: The Movie
US animated tv film (2019). Cartoon Network Studios. Director and Executive Producer: Rebecca Sugar. Produced by Jackie Buscarino. Writers include Hilary Florido, Joe Johnston, Kat Morris and Rebecca Sugar. Voice cast includes Zach Callison, Michaela Dietz, Susan Egan, Estelle, Deedee Magno Hall, Grace Rolek, Tom Scharpling and Sarah Stiles. 83 minutes. Colour. / The film is set two years after the events that closed Season 5 of the ...
Avenger, The [2]
US Comic (1955). Magazine Enterprises. Four issues. Artists include Dick Ayers, Fred Guardineer and Bob Powell. Script writers include Gardner F Fox and Paul S Newman. 36 pages per issue, with four (#1-#3) or three (#4) long strips, all featuring The Avenger; #4 was padded out with a short text story and four one-page non-fiction articles on recent technology, including what proved to be an overly optimistic piece on the ...
Sidewise Award
These annual awards for Alternate History fiction were conceived in 1995 by Evelyn C Leeper, Robert B Schmunk and Steven H Silver, and have since been presented annually in two categories, Long Form for works of more than 60,000 words and Short Form for works (including poems) of less than 60,000 words. The awards' name is a homage to Murray Leinster's short ...
Farncombe, Frank E
(1880-1929) UK author of two sf novels, both with Robert L Hadfield: the Near Future Ruled by Radio (1925), in which a "Z" Ray threatens radio-mediated world peace in 1930; and Red Radio (1927), in which similar conspiracies take even more convoluted twists. [JC/MA]
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...