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Uchū Senkan Yamato
["Space Cruiser Yamato" vt "Space Battleship Yamato"] Animated tv series (1974-1975 Japan; trans as Star Blazers US). Yomiuri TV, Artland, Westcape, Studio Take Off. Directed by Noboru Ishiguro. Written by Keisuke Fujikawa, Eiichi Yamamoto, Maru Tamura at al. Cast includes Yōko Asagami and Kei Tomiyama. 26 episodes of 25 minutes (season one). Colour. / In the year 2199, a savage attack by the Alien Gamilas race swiftly reduces the Earth's ...
Space Pirate Captain Harlock
Japanese animated tv series (1978-1979). Original title Uchū Kaizoku Kyaputen Hārokku. Based on the Manga by Leiji Matsumoto. Toei Animation. Directed by Rintaro. Written by Shozo Uehara and Haruya Yamazaki. Voice cast includes Makio Inoue, Chiyoko Kawashima, Haruko Kitahama, Noriko Ohara, Hiroshi Ōtake and Keaton Yamada. Forty-two 25 minute ...
Knights of Sidonia
Japanese animated tv series (2014-current). Original title Sidonia no Kishi. Based on the Manga by Tsutomu Nihei. Polygon Pictures. Directed by Kōbun Shizuno (season one) and Hiroyuki Seshita (season two). Written by Sadayuki Murai. Voice cast includes Satomi Arai, Hisako Kanemoto, Sayaka Ohara, Ryota Ohsaka, Takahiro Sakurai, Aya Suzaki and Aki Toyosaki. 24 25-minute episodes. Colour. / Sidonia may be the last of ...
Barnes, Julian
(1946- ) UK author who has published detective thrillers as by Dan Kavanagh; his most famous single novel remains Flaubert's Parrot (1984). He has written some Scientific Romances of interest. An abstractedness about the circumstances of the world (see Mainstream Writers of SF) attends Staring at the Sun (1986), which carries its protagonist from her birth in ...
Marsden, John
(1950-2024) Australian author for children and Young Adult markets, much of whose work is of Fantasy interest, beginning with his first novel, The Journey (1988), but who is of sf interest primarily for his Tomorrow sequence, comprising Tomorrow, When the War Began (1993), The Dead of the Night (1994), The Third Day, the Frost (1995; vt ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...