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Rosenman, John B
(1941- ) US academic and author, most of whose large output (which includes more than 300 stories) is horror, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Vacation" in The Horror Show for Fall 1983. His first novel, Beyond Those Distant Stars (2003), proved typical of much of his work, being a broad-gauge Space Opera whose protagonist (here a transfigured woman) may be a Cyborg ...
Silent Möbius
Japanese animated film (1991; vt Silent Möbius: The Motion Picture). Anime International Company (AIC). Based on the Manga by Kia Asamiya (a pseudonym of Michitaka Kikuchi). Directed by Kazuo Tomizawa and Michitaka Kikuchi. Written by Kei Shigema and Michitaka Kikuchi. Voice cast includes Toshiko Fujita, Masako Ikeda and Naoko Matsui. 53 minutes. Colour. / In a high-tech future Tokyo, Katsumi Liqueur (Matsui) battles a ...
Acton, Harold
(1904-1994) Italian-born UK editor, translator and author, much of his life spent in the land of his birth; best known for highly civilized reflections, in books like Memoirs of an Aesthete (1948), on his own style of life. A period in China during the 1930s inspired some translation work, including Glue and Lacquer: Four Cautionary Tales (coll 1941), adapted from Hsing Shih Hêng Yen ["Common Tales to Rouse the World"] (coll ...
Hale, John
(1926-1997) UK film director, screenwriter, playwright and author who is of sf interest for The Paradise Man: A Black and White Farce (1969), a Near Future tale in which worldwide Future War is conducted between dominating Black nations and the rest, but according to agreements to maintain the conflict at the level necessary to keep the international economy in good health. He co-wrote the screenplay for The ...
Yoon, David
(circa 1972- ) US author whose first two books are nonfantastic Young Adult tales; he is of sf interest for Version Zero (2021), which is set in a Near Future world. The protagonist of the tale, feeling victimized by the Media Landscape environment of his place of employment, takes revenge by attempting to reboot the ...
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 ...