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Joyce, Graham
(1954-2014) UK author and from 1996 also a reader in and teacher of creative writing at Nottingham Trent University, Nottinghamshire. He began to publish work of genre interest with Dreamside (1991), in which four university students involved in an experimental study of lucid dreaming develop a shared hallucination or alternate reality known as Dreamside, which they reject after bad experiences but which returns to haunt them in later life; the effect is one of ...
Out 1
French film (1971; vt Out 1: Noli Me Tangere). Sunshine Productions, Stéphane Tchalgadjieff. Written and directed by Jacques Rivette, in collaboration with Suzanne Schiffman; loosely based on Histoire de Treize (1833-1835) by Honoré de Balzac, with dialogue largely improvised by the cast. Cast includes Juliet Berto, Françoise Fabian, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, ...
Battlefield Earth
Film (2000). Warner Bros presents a Franchise Pictures and Morgan Creek Productions film in association with Battlefield Productions, JTP Films and Mel's Cite du Cinema. Directed by Roger Christian. Written by Corey Mandell and J D Shapiro, based on the first half of the novel Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (1982) by L Ron Hubbard. Cast includes Kim Coates, Sabine Karsenti, Michael MacRae, Barry Pepper, Kelly Preston, John ...
Kingsbury, Donald
(1929- ) US-born academic and author, in Canada from 1948, naturalized in 1955, a teacher of mathematics at McGill University from 1956 until his retirement in 1986. He began publishing sf with "The Ghost Town" in Astounding for June 1952; he produced relatively little for nearly 30 years, though his intermittent appearances in Astounding, with both fiction and nonfiction, were generally noticed. What could not have been ...
Super Loco, El
Mexican film (1937; vt El Superloco). P.C.E. (Producciones Cinematográficas Exito). Directed by Juan José Segura. Written by Jorge Cardeña Álvarez and Juan José Segura. Cast includes Ramón Armengod, Aurora Campuzano, Emilio Fernández, Consuelo Frank, Leopoldo "Chato" Ortín, Raúl Urquijo and Carlos Villarías. 65 minutes. Black and white. / An 80-year-old doctor shows a friend a ...
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 ...