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Postmodernism and SF
"Modernism" is a useful term for the literature that emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century to challenge the mimetic conventions of bourgeois fiction, but Postmodernism is not simply its more recent replacement. In fact, most contemporary serious writing remains insistently Modernist. The relationship between Modernism and Postmodernism (see Modernism in SF) is difficult to discuss, not least because the term "Postmodernism" has been used to point ...
Barnes, Rory
(1946- ) London-born Australian author who began to publish work of genre interest with the playful sf novel Valencies (1983) with Damien Broderick, set in a Far Future (4004 CE) Galactic Empire whose quadrillions of worlds are linked by an ancient matter transmission network; libertarian anarchists including clones on one ...
Reid, Iain
(1981- ) Canadian author whose novels to date, beginning with I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2016) are horror; that first novel was filmed as I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. Fog (2018) strongly evokes Horror in SF through its frame narrative: in the ...
Worth, Nigel
Pseudonym of UK navy officer and author Noel Wright (1890-1975), in active service during World War One, and who reached flag rank in the Royal Navy during World War Two. He is of sf interest for The Arms of Phaedra: A Tale of Wonder and Adventure (1924), a Lost Race tale set in Crete, where ancient Minoans are found to have survived. The Wise Man of Welby (1924) is ...
Owl House, The
US animated tv series (2020-2023). Disney Television Animation (see Disney on Television). Creator and Executive Producer Dana Terrace. Directors include Bosook Coburn, Aminder Dhaliwal, Stu Livingston, Amelia Lorenz, Stephen Sandoval and Bridget Underwood. Writers include Mikki Crisostomo, Charley Feldman, Madeleine Hernandez, Zach Marcus, Molly Ostertag, John Bailey Owen, Avi Roque, Dana Terrace and Rachel Vine. Voice cast includes Alex Hirsch, ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...