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Children of the Night
US letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema Fanzine printed on middle-grade paper. Published by Derek Jensen. Editors: Derek Jensen and Matthew Le Master. Ten issues, 1975 to 1985. / A high-quality fanzine with a very irregular schedule, this title carried a great deal of material on the performer Christopher Lee plus considerable amount of coverage of sf films and Television, the latter including such ...
Conrad, Earl
(1912-1986) US author, fairly prolific and sometimes controversial. His relatively occasional sf comprises a Near-Future novel, The Premier (1963), in which a Black segregationist creates a separatist Black state in Western America; and a collection of short stories, The Da Vinci Machine: Tales of the Population Explosion (coll of linked stories 1969), set in various futures postulated (and perhaps brought into being) by the eponymous ...
Locke the Superman – Millennium of the Witch
Japanese animated film (1984; original title Majo no Seiki; vt Witch Era; vt Locke the Superpower; vt Star Warrior). Nippon Animation. Based on the Manga Chōjin Rokku by Yuki Hijiri. Directed by Hiroshi Fukutomi. Written by Atsushi Yamatoya. Voice cast includes Toshiko Fujita, Keiko Han, Keiichi Nanba, Taeko Nakanishi and Yoshito Yasuhara. 120 minutes. Colour. / The galactic Federation (see ...
Heffernan, John
(1949- ) Australian farmer and prolific author of children's books who began to publish work of sf interest with the Young Adult novel CBD (2000), in which the received history of the titular twenty-third-century City built among the ruins of Sydney in Post-Holocaust Australia is at odds with actual diaries that have survived from ...
Lewis, Wyndham
(1882-1957) US- or Canadian-born painter and author, primarily in the UK from 1893 (the story of his birth on an American yacht in Canadian waters has been challenged), serving in World War One first as a bombardier, then as a war artist; he lived with Iris Barry circa 1919-1922, having two children with her. For the first part of his career, beginning around 1900, he was primarily active as a painter; he is best known in ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book ...