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Ziemiański, Andrzej
(1960- ) is a Polish sf and fantasy author known for blending genres; he trained as an architect with a PhD in technical sciences. Emerging as part of the Polish Sociological SF wave during the late Communist era, alongside authors like Janusz A Zajdel, he began to publish work of sf interest in "Zakład zamknięty" ["Total Institution"] (1979 Sigma #101), about inmates of a seemingly ...
Dante 01
Film (2008). Eskwad/Wild Bunch. Directed by Marc Caro. Written by Caro and Pierre Bordage. Cast includes Simona Maicanescu, Dominique Pinon and Lambert Wilson. 82 minutes. Colour. / French director Caro's solo debut shares a premise with Alien Resurrection (1997), directed by his frequent collaborator Jean-Pierre Jenuet: a group of Scientists are carrying out dubious and dangerous research on a ...
Invasion of the Bee Girls
Film (1973). Centaur/Sequoia. Directed by Denis Sanders. Written by Nicholas Meyer. Cast includes René Bond, Anitra Ford, William Smith and Victoria Vetri. 85 minutes. Colour. / This softcore erotic movie – perhaps inspired by The Wasp Woman (1959) – has deservedly developed a minor cult reputation for the outrageousness of its tacky if typical exploitation premise, that ...
Pantropy
This useful item of sf Terminology was coined by James Blish in the stories later melded together as The Seedling Stars (fixup 1957). Blish's view was that in humanity's Colonization of Other Worlds (which see for further discussion), we must either change the planet to make it habitable (Terraforming) or change humanity itself to fit ...
Wolfe, Gary K
(1946- ) US academic and author, associated with Roosevelt University in Chicago since 1971; as Dean of University College between 1981 and 1990; married to Dede Weil from 1997 until her death in 2000. Some of his earlier essays, like "The Known and the Unknown: Structure and Image in Science Fiction" (in Many Futures, Many Worlds, anth 1977, ed Thomas B Clareson), prefigured the ...
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 ...