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Gunn, David
(? - ) Author, almost certainly pseudonymous, whose Military SF tale, Death's Head (2007), which is set in anonymous Space Opera country and features an exceedingly tough protagonist, begins the Death's Head sequence. This series appears to have ceased with the third volume, Death's Head: Day of the Damned (2009), despite the author's announcement in 2009 ...
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
Japanese animated film and web series (2024; vt DDDD). Production +h. Based on the Manga by Inio Asano. Directed by Tomoyuki Kurokawa. Written by Reiko Yoshida and Takaaki Suzuki. Voice cast includes Ano, Lilas Ikuta, Miyu Irino, Ryoko Shiraishi, Kenjiro Tsuda and Azumi Waki. Initially released as two 120-minute films with script credit to Reiko Yoshida only; then (with additional material) as a web series of eighteen 24-minute ...
Watson, Paul E
(? - ) US author of The Robot (2011), a Young Adult tale whose two teenaged male protagonists discover a female Robot in off-bounds laboratory of one of their parents, who is a "genius" scientist. The robot is interested in Sex, but also, according to its programming, in engaging in an assassination. [JC]
Zemeckis, Robert
(1952- ) US filmmaker whose early career as director and screenwriter was nurtured by Steven Spielberg through a series of flops until the success of Romancing the Stone (1984) enabled him to make his pet Time Travel project Back to the Future (1985). Besides that film's back-to-back sequels, his other major sf credit as director is ...
Lost in Space
1. US tv series (1965-1968). An Irwin Allen Production in association with Van Bernard Productions for Twentieth Century Fox Television/CBS. Created by Irwin Allen, also executive producer. Story consultant Anthony Wilson. Writers included Peter Packer, William Welch, Bob and Wanda Duncan, Carey Wilbur, Barney Slater. Directors included Harry Harris, Sutton Roley, Nathan Juran, Don Richardson, Sobey Martin. Cast includes Angela Cartwright, Mark ...
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 reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...