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Yosei Gorasu
Film (1962; vt Gorath). Toho Studios. Directed by Ishirō Honda. Written by Takeshi Kimura, based on a story by Jojiri Okami. Cast includes Akihiko Hirata, Ryō Ikebe, Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Hiroshi Tachikawa and Jun Tazaki. 88 minutes, cut for US release to 83 minutes. Colour. / A small but massive Star, named Gorath, enters the Solar System and begins to disrupt planetary orbits. A Japanese ...
Gombrowicz, Witold
(1904-1969) Polish playwright, essayist and author whose work was not directly connected with Genre SF, though he occasionally utilized fantastic elements; his impact on Polish literature (see Poland) was unprecedented both at the level of his highly original narrative technique, for which he derived idiosyncratic diminutive forms and neologisms, and a consistent philosophy, at some points evoking associations with existentialism, ...
Weatherhead, John
(? - ) UK author of Transplant (1969), a Near Future Dystopia whose citizens are controlled by the state, and are at risk of mandatory interference with their bodies through a mooted transplant Bill. [JC]
de Lautrec, Gabriel
(1867-1938) French author, cousin of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) whose short fiction, assembled in works like Poèmes en Prose (coll 1898), Les Histoires de Tom Joë (coll 1920) (see Club Story) and La Vengeance du portrait ovale (coll 1922; trans by Brian Stableford with excerpts from the previous two as ...
FAX Collector's Editions
US Small Press established by T E Dikty with Darrell C Richardson in 1972, and devoted to publishing material from and about Pulp magazines. Its publications include several collections of obscure Robert E Howard stories, two anthology series in facsimile under the titles Famous Fantastic Classics and Famous Pulp Classics, and ...
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 ...