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F.P.1 Antwortet Nicht
Film (1932). UFA. Directed by Karl Hartl. Written by Walter Reisch, Kurt Siodmak, based on F.P.1 Antwortet Nicht (1932) by Siodmak. Cast includes Hans Albers, Paul Hartmann, Peter Lorre and Sybille Schmitz. 111 minutes. Black and white. / F.P.1 has been described as being in the tradition of Metropolis (1926) and Die Frau im Mond (1929), ...
Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart
US animated tv series (2014; 2017; 2019-current). Cartoon Network Studios/Titmouse, Inc. Created by Parker Simmons. Executive producers include Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski and Parker Simmons. Directed by Michael Moloney. Writers include Phil Ahn, Allison Craig, Akira Mark Fujita Nathanael H. Jones, Griffith Kimmins, Alexandria Kwan, Nora Meek, Emily Oetzell and Chris Ybarra. Voice cast includes Julian Barratt, Griffith Kimmins, Lika Leong, Christopher McCulloch, Parker ...
Hall, Desmond W
(1911-1992) Australian-born New Zealand author and editor, in US from early adulthood; he served as assistant editor of Astounding Stories of Super Science (see Astounding Science-Fiction) under Harry Bates 1930-1933, also collaborating with Bates as a writer under the pseudonyms H G Winter and, more famously, Anthony Gilmore; as Gilmore they produced the popular Hawk Carse series, which ...
Greenhough, Terry
Working name of UK author Terence Greenhough (1944-2002) for most of his fiction, though he used the pseudonym Andrew Lester for the routine novel The Thrice-Born (1976), about persecuted hermaphrodites on a distant planet. Greenhough began publishing sf with "The Tree in the Forest" for Science Fiction Monthly in 1974. After Friend of Pharaoh (1975), an historical romance, his first sf novel, Time and Timothy Grenville (1975), typically of this ...
Bachorz, Pam
(1973- ) US author whose Young Adult Candor (2009) applies a familiar Horror in SF topos – a small town malevolently under some kind of mesmeric or unholy control – to describe a Near Future planned community dominated by the protagonist's father. Her second novel, Drought (2011), set in another coercive ...
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 ...