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Schorer, Mark
(1908-1977) US author and academic, little associated with the literatures of the fantastic except for some stories with August Derleth, with whom he shared a birth city as well as attendance at the University of Wisconsin, where they wrote sf like "Riders in the Sky" (May 1928 Weird Tales), about Moon dwellers who come down to Earth to eat folk. Some of their later work was assembled as ...
Code Geass
Japanese animated tv series (2006-2008; vt Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion). Sunrise. Directed by Gorō Taniguchi; written by Ichirō Ōkouchi. Character designs by CLAMP. Music by Kōtarō Nakagawa and Hitomi Kuroishi. Voiced by Jun Fukuyama, Yukana, Takahiro Sakurai and Kaori Nazuka. 50 25-minute episodes across two seasons, first broadcast 2006-2007 and 2008 respectively. Colour. / Code Geass is set in a ...
Mystery Men Comics
US Comic (1939-1942). Fox Publications. 31 issues. Artists include Dick Briefer, Walter Frehm, Charles Nicholas, Klaus Nordling, Munson Paddock and George Tuska. Script writers include Dick Briefer, Will Eisner, Nathaniel Nitkin, Bob Powell and Fred Schwab. 68 pages with 7-12 long strips, a short text story, plus short strips and filler material. / Mystery Men Comics introduced many Fox regulars, some of whom would go ...
Sherrer, Lydia
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with the Post-Holocaust sf story Hope (in Apocalypse Chronicles, anth 2016, ed Rosie Gailor and Marek Lewandowski; 2016 ebook). At about the same time she began to release the popular urban fantasy sequence The Lily Singer Adventures, opening with Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings (2016) [see Checklist ...
Stone, George
(? - ) US author whose Near Future sf novel Blizzard (1977; vt Freeze 1979) in which an American admiral, by activating sea-bottom nuclear reactors, creates a circular blizzard system that eventually covers most of America. The ultimate consequence is Climate Change leading to a new Ice Age. [JC]
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 ...