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Armitage, Simon
(1963- ) UK translator and poet, Poet Laureate from 2019. Much of his Poetry, which may be described as fluently world-facing, comes close to or enters the water margins of Fantastika, though his use of the SF Megatext is casual. The poems assembled in CloudCuckooLand (coll 1997) are consistent with this delineation; the volume also includes a full-length ...
Fiction River
US paperback Anthology series which calls itself an "original anthology magazine". It is published by WMG Publishing in Lincoln, Oregon, a company run by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch who also serve as editors, though many volumes are compiled by guest editors. Each volume is themed. The series began in April 2013 with the theme "Unnatural Worlds", covering, like ...
Science and Sorcery
Item of Terminology introduced in this encyclopedia for the genre-blending juxtaposition of sf and Fantasy settings, often presented as Parallel Worlds between which crossings may be made, and distinguished therefore from Equipoisal tales where any "crossings" tend to be integrated into the address of the tale, rather than working as transitions. (This use of crossings ...
Altebrando, Tara
(? - ) US author of Young Adult titles, who also writes as by Tara McCarthy, most of her work, beginning with The Pursuit of Happiness (2006), being nonfantastic romances. Leaving (2016) contains hints of Horror in SF. The Possible (2017), in which Telekinesis threatens to further rupture an already seriously ...
Takt Op. Destiny
Japanese animated tv series (2021; vt Tákt: Op.). MAPPA, Madhouse. Directed by Yūki Itō. Written by Kiyoko Yoshimura. Voice cast includes Eiji Hanawa, Satoshi Hino, Kaede Hondo, Miku Itō, Kōki Uchiyama and Shion Wakayama. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / Shooting stars rain onto the Earth and their "beautiful stones" are studied by Scientists. Some years later, ...
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 ...