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Goldsmith, Cele
(1933-2002) US editor of SF Magazines who in 1956-1958 was assistant editor and then managing editor of Amazing Stories and Fantastic under Paul W Fairman, becoming editor of both in December 1958; she held this position until June 1965, when the magazines were sold and ceased for a time to publish original stories. Under her editorship the quality of both improved ...
Nathenson, Joseph
(1925-2006) US author of Deep, Very Deep Space (1978), in which a complex Starship heads towards the end of the universe. [JC]
Rhoades, Walter
(1860-1927) UK author of The Hidden City: A Story of Central America (1907), a Lost World tale for boys set in Central America. Rhoades wrote a number of other novels aimed at boys. [JC]
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Film (2011). Twentieth Century Fox/Chernin Entertainment/Dune Entertainment. Directed by Rupert Wyatt. Written by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, suggested by La Planète des singes (1963; trans as Planet of the Apes 1963 US) by Pierre Boulle. Cast includes Brian Cox, Tom Felton, James Franco, John Lithgow, Freida Pinto and Andy Serkis. 105 minutes. Colour. / A geneticist testing an Alzheimer's cure on chimpanzees ...
Mohanraj, Mary Anne
(1971- ) Sri Lankan-born editor and author, in USA from infancy, who began to publish work of genre interest with "A Dream of Wolves" in Black October Magazine for May 1996, but who became a significant figure in modern sf with her co-founding of Strange Horizons in September 2000; she served as editor until 2003, and editor emeritus subsequently. An anthology, Strange Horizons: The Best of Year One (anth 2003), ...
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 ...