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THX 1138
Film (1971). American Zoetrope/Warner Bros. Directed by George Lucas. Written by Lucas, Walter Murch, from a story by Lucas. Cast includes Robert Duvall, Maggie McOmie and Donald Pleasence. 88 minutes, restored to 95 minutes. Colour. / A subterranean future society is governed repressively by Computers and bland human technocrats who keep the population under control with Drugs. Everyone wears ...
Hall, G Stanley
(1844-1924) US psychologist and author whose early acceptance of the theory of Evolution influenced his early studies in education and childhood development (see Psychology), which he interprets as a period of "Storm and Stress" within a rigorously defined arena: an only child (he claimed, for instance, obtusely) is "a disease in itself". His overall characterization of childhood as riven by conflicts with parents, mood disorders, ...
Stearns, R E
(1983- ) US author whose Shieldrunner Pirates sequence begins with Barbary Station (2017), a Space Opera set in a distant Near Future where Earth has suffered defeat in an interplanetary war. Escaping this desolate world, the protagonists, long-time partners who are Black and lesbian (see Race in SF; Sex), travel by ...
Weir, Andy
(1972- ) US author who has also written as by Jack Sharp and has self-published fiction at his Galactanet site [see links below] since 2009. His first novel, The Martian (2014), initially self-published as a free online ebook in 2012, describes in considerable detail the travails of an astronaut stranded on Mars as fellow-Scientists work out a way to rescue him. His survival techniques include ...
Massie, Douglas
(? - ) UK author whose sf/fantasy novel Mr. Ciggers Goes to Heaven (1931) details the titular protagonist's posthumous experiences in that not altogether Utopian realm, to a general effect of Satire. [JC/DRL]
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...