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Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
Japanese animated film and web series (2024; vt DDDD). Production +h. Based on the Manga by Inio Asano. Directed by Tomoyuki Kurokawa. Written by Reiko Yoshida and Takaaki Suzuki. Voice cast includes Ano, Lilas Ikuta, Miyu Irino, Ryoko Shiraishi, Kenjiro Tsuda and Azumi Waki. Initially released as two 120-minute films with script credit to Reiko Yoshida only; then (with additional material) as a web series of eighteen 24-minute ...
Garvin, Richard M
(1934-1980) US author whose main career was in advertising. His two sf novels, both in collaboration with Edmond G Addeo, are The FORTEC Conspiracy (1968) and The Talbott Agreement (1968). In the former, a crashlanded Spaceship with five sick Aliens aboard infects Earth with a deadly disease; the latter novel is borderline sf with espionage elements involving ...
Jenks, William
(1778-1866) US clergyman and author whose Future History, Memoir of the Northern Kingdom, Written, A D 1872 [for full title see Checklist below] (dated 1901 but 1808), describes the world as of the date of its claimed composition. Politics dominates the account. America has been split into three parts: the Southern States, now a monarchy under the influence of France; the Northern States, at peace with Canada due ...
Olemy, P T
Pseudonym (ie Ptolemy) of US author George Baker (? - ) of two spoofish thrillers, Pink Dolphin (1967) and The Transgressors (1967). In his sf novel, The Clones (1968), Clones, because of their powers of Communication, may be able to save Earth from Invasion by Aliens; or in fact help Earth ...
Night Stalker
US tv series (2005). Touchstone Television/Big Light Productions for ABC tv. Created by Frank Spotnitz; produced by Lori-Etta Taub, Gary LaPoten. Cast includes Eric Jungmann, Stuart Townsen and Gabrielle Union. Directors included Rob Bowman, Dave Sarafian, Tony Wharmby. Writers included Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan, William Schmidt. Ten 50-minute episodes. Colour. / This short-lived series was both a remake of and a sequel to the original series ...
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 ...