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Evolution [2001 film]
US film (2001). Montecito Picture Company. Directed by Ivan Reitman. Written by David Diamond, Don Jacoby, and David Weissman, based on a story by Jacoby. Cast includes Dan Ackroyd, John Cho, David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Ted Levine, Julianne Moore, and Seann William Scott. 101 minutes; colour. / A future firefighter, Wayne Grey (Scott), observes a Meteor landing in Arizona, and it is soon found and examined by college professors Ira Kane (Duchovny) and ...
Norfolk, Lawrence
(1963- ) UK author whose first novel, Lemprière's Dictionary (1991; cut 1992) is an elaborate secret history set in the late eighteenth century, depicting vast Automata from the Steampunk toolkit and sinister immortals (see Immortality) under a phantasmagoric London, murders that involve the re-enactment of classical myth, ...
Brown, Christopher
(1964- ) US lawyer and author who published his earlier fiction as by Chris Nakashima-Brown, beginning to release work of genre interest (under that name) with "The Launch Pad" in Argosy for January-February 2004. "Suburbia Deserta" (June 2005 RevolutionSF), his first sale, has a protagonist constructing a diorama in his basement, "a speculative rendering of the post-apocalyptic landscape of the city". The tale contains, fully-formed ...
Morse, David
(1940- ) US journalist, poet and author whose sf novel, The Iron Bridge (1998), very effectively utilizes a Time Travel structure: the protagonist, from an America ravaged by Climate Change, Pollution and War, travels to 1773 England where she hopes to find a Jonbar Point in the sabotage the building of ...
Alexander, Robert
(? - ) UK author of The Pendulum of Fate: Cosmic Glimpses of Past & Future (coll 1933), a series of cosmic visions divided into three parts: the first an array of Utopias spread across the Solar System; the second a similarly disposed array depicting historical moments, including a glimpse of Atlantis; the third showing a great ...
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 ...