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Duble, Kathleen Benner
(1958- ) US author for Young Adult audiences, whose only book of strong sf interest is her first, Bridging Beyond (2002), in which "genetic memories" generated by her great-grandmother afflict a teenage girl. [JC]
Déjà Vu
Film (2006). Touchstone Pictures (see The Walt Disney Company) and Jerry Bruckheimer Films present a Scott Free production. Directed by Tony Scott. Written by Bill Marsilii, Terry Rossio. Cast includes Jim Caviezel, Val Kilmer, Paula Patton and Denzel Washington. 126 minutes. Colour. / In this Time-Travel action film, a federal agent (Washington) investigates the bombing of a ferry in New Orleans. He is ...
McIntosh, J T
Pseudonym of Scottish author and journalist James Murdoch MacGregor (1925-2008), used for all his sf writing except for some short fiction noted later in this paragraph; in some early work the surname was spelled M'Intosh. He also wrote non-sf under his own name. He began publishing sf with "The Curfew Tolls" in Astounding for December 1950, producing many stories (though no collections) until 1979. Half a dozen stories beginning with "Ape" in ...
Frahm, Leanne
(1946-2025) Australian author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Passage to Earth" in Galileo for January 1980 and (published in the same month) "The Wood for the Trees" in Chrysalis 6 (anth 1980) edited by Roy Torgeson. Frahm collected further sf and fantasy stories in Borderline (coll 1996), which includes a bibliography. Her sf is perhaps less idiomatic than ...
Patrick
Australian film (1978). AIFC/Antony I Ginnane/Filmways Australasia. Directed by Richard Franklin. Produced by Franklin and Antony I Ginnane. Executive producer William Fayman. Written by Everett de Roche. Special effects by Conrad C Rothmann. Cast includes Bruce Barry, Julia Blake, Robert Helpmann, Helen Hemingway, Rod Mullinar, Susan Penhaligon and Robert Thompson. 115 minutes. Colour. / Patrick (Thompson) lies in a coma in the seedy private hospital ...
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 ...