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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Time After Time
Film (1979). Orion/Warner Bros. Directed by Nicholas Meyer. Written by Meyer, from a story by Karl Alexander, Steve Hayes, based on Time After Time (1979) by Karl Alexander. Cast includes Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen and David Warner. 112 minutes. Colour. / Dr Stevenson (Warner), whom we soon learn to be Jack the Ripper, eludes police by stealing the ...
Edge Detector
Canadian Semiprozine, published and edited by Glenn Grant of London, Ontario (for the first two issues; Montreal, Quebec for the third issue) which saw three letter-size issues in Summer 1988, Summer 1989 and Summer 1991, all three computer-typeset. The magazine sought to develop experimental fiction beyond the Cyberpunk revolution and included work by Paul ...
Bravest Warriors
US animated online/tv series (2009; 2012-current). Nicktoons (pilot); Cartoon Hangover via YouTube (season 1 and 2); Cartoon Hangover Select/VRV (from season 3). Created by Pendleton Ward (creator of Adventure Time). Executive producers include Breehn Burns, Will McRobb, Fred Seibert and Chris Viscardi. Directors include Breehn Burns, Tom King and Adrian Thatcher. Writers include Breehn Burns. Voice cast includes Graeme Jokic, Ian Jones-Quartey, ...
Filibus
Italian silent film (1915). Corona Film. Directed by Mario Roncoroni. Written by Giovanni Bertinetti. Cast includes Valeria Creti, Cristina Ruspoli, Giovanni Spano and Filippo Vallino. 70 minutes, divided into five parts. Black and white. / When a reward is offered for the capture of Filibus the notorious bank robber, Baroness Troixmonde (Creti), identifying herself as an amateur detective, registers as one of the contenders; as she does so Hardy (Spano), the detective (see ...
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 ...