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Yamamoto, Makana
(1992- ) US author whose first novel, the Near-Future Hammajang Luck (2024), is mostly set on a vast Space Station known as Kepler (see Johannes Kepler), and may be deemed the beginning of a Kepler Station sequence. It serves as the headquarters of trillionaire Joyce Atlas's malevolent multi-world corporation, whose surveillance-based control over ...
Fairman, Paul W
(1909-1977) US editor and author in several genres, including crime stories and erotica; active from around 1947. His first published sf story was "No Teeth for the Tiger" in Amazing for February 1950, and for some years thereafter he was a regular contributor to the Ziff-Davis magazines under his own name, the pseudonyms Robert Lee and Mallory Storm, and various house pseudonyms (see House Names), ...
Connell, Alan
(1916-1994) Australian author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Reign of the Reptiles" in Wonder Stories for August 1935, but who remains known almost solely for his Serpent Land sequence, comprising Lords of Serpent Land (1945 chap), Prisoners in Serpent Land (1945 chap) and Warriors of Serpent Land (1945 chap), all three being assembled as ...
Transformers
Film (2007). DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures in association with Hasbro present a Di Bonaventura Pictures production. Directed by Michael Bay. Written by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman. Cast includes Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, Tyrese Gibson, Shia LaBoeuf, Rachael Taylor, John Turturro and Jon Voight. 144 minutes. Colour. / A teenager's coming-of-age first car turns out to be part of a secret team of ...
Lukodianov, Isai
(1913-1984) Russian design engineer who wrote sf in collaboration with his first cousin Evgeny Voiskunsky (whom see for discussion of their work). [DRL]
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 ...