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Danger and Eggs
US animated online series (2015-2017). Amazon Studios, PUNY, Saerom Animation. Created by Mike Owens and Shadi Petosky. Directors include Sarah Seember Huisken, Mike Owens and Drew Schmidt. Writers include Sofiya Alexandra, Alex Fox, Eric Knobel, Rachel Lewis, Bob Mittenthal and Shadi Petosky. Voice cast includes Aidy Bryant and Eric Knobel. Thirteen 24-minute episodes, each with two segments, save for the finale. Colour. / The young daughter of a stunt rider, D D Danger (Bryant) ...
Symmes, John Cleves
(1779-1829) US army officer, nephew of the politician and land speculator John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814); he reached the rank of Captain, distinguished himself in the War of 1812, retired, and subsequently devoted his life to propagandizing (largely through speeches, apparently charismatic) on behalf of his theory of a Hollow Earth consisting of five concentric spheres, with openings at the poles. He twice petitioned Congress (1822, 1823) for funds to mount an ...
Warren, Andrew
(? - ) UK author of a Near Future Political drama This Time Next October (1971), in which Britain is at the verge of a General Election in which a "Neutralist" decision to separate herself from the rest of Europe is imminent, causing the government to build Underground bunkers to protect itself. A coup is forfended. [JC]
Thompson, E P
(1924-1993) UK historian and author, father of Kate Thompson; his highly articulate Marxist interpretation of the last centuries of UK history is best expressed in The Making of the English Working Class (1963). His studies of William Morris – William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary (1955) and The Communism of William Morris (1965 chap) – are of sf interest; his only ...
Deca-Dence
Japanese animated tv series (2020). Created by the Deca-Dence Project. NUT. Directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa. Written by Hiroshi Seko. Voice cast includes Katsuyuki Konishi, Tomori Kusunoki and Michiyo Murase. Twelve 23-minute episodes. Colour. / The first episode presents us with a generic Anime scenario: long ago the Gadoll, Monsters of varying size and shape, wiped out 90% of Earth's population; the ...
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 ...