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Lavender, Isiah, III
(? - ) US academic, currently associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University, where he researches and lectures on African American Studies and Science Fiction. From 2004 onwards he has contributed articles and reviews to such journals as Extrapolation and Science Fiction Studies; his first book was Race in American Science Fiction (2011). ...
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
US animated film (2018). Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Marvel Entertainment. Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman. Written by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman. The Mike Morales version of Spider-Man (see Superheroes) was created by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli, based on the Marvel Comics book by Stan Lee and Steve ...
Chambers, Julius
(1850-1920) US journalist, noted for his daring in the gathering of far-flung stories, with the Philadelphia Times from 1900; and author of "In Sargasso": Missing, a Romance; Narrative of Capt. Austin Clark, of the Tramp Steamer "Caribas," Who, for Two Years, Was a Captive Among the Savage People of the Seaweed Sea (1896), a Lost Race tale – the race is composed of descendants of slaves and Spaniards – whose protagonists finds a ...
Gamma World
Role Playing Game (1978). Tactical Studies Rules (TSR). Designed by James Ward (1951-2024), Gary Jaquet. / The original edition of Gamma World is an atomic age fantasy set in the eponymous "third age" of the Earth, a Post-Holocaust world full of psychic Mutants, forgotten super-technologies and devastated Cities. The background is ...
Dixon, Dougal
(1947- ) UK geologist, palaeontologist and author whose After Man: A Zoology of the Future (1981) provides a quasifactual view of a Far-Future Earth in which Homo sapiens, having exhausted the planet and become extinct, gives way (in a fashion reminiscent of the work of Olaf Stapledon) to succeeding forms of life adapted by Evolution to new-found ...
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 (1966-1967), and later in ...