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Seidenberg, Roderick
(1889-1973) German-born architect and author, in USA from 1910 or earlier; imprisoned 1918-1920 as a World War One conscientious objector, an experience he describes in "I Refuse to Serve" (1932 Mercury). Also in the 1930s, while designing several buildings in New York, he published essays on the fragile culture of the urban world. In the 1930s, while designing several buildings in New York, he also contributed essays to various journals. His first ...
de Saint-Martin, Louis Claude
(1743-1803) French philosopher and author, who published most of his nonfiction as by Le Philosophe Inconnu. Much of this output concerned his advocacy of the form of esoteric mysticism known as Martinism, a designation which confusingly refers not to de Saint-Martin but to Martinez de Pasqually (?1727-1774), whose doctrines resemble Rosicrucianism (see Johan Valentin Andreae) and its progeny, including Freemasonry. De Saint-Martin's only fictional ...
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Film (2014). Twentieth Century Fox in association with TSG Entertainment. Directed by Matt Reeves. Written by Mark Bomback and Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, based on characters created by Jaffa & Silver. Cast includes Jason Clarke, Toby Kebbell, Karin Konoval, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Andy Serkis, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Nick Thurston. 130 minutes. Colour, 3D. / Ten years after the events of Rise of the Planet of the Apes ...
Fisher, Catherine
(1957- ) Welsh poet and author, active in the former capacity from the 1980s; her first novel, The Conjuror's Game (1990), was the first of many Young Adult fantasies, most of them set in Secondary Worlds [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. She is of some sf interest for two series. The Incarceron sequence beginning with Incarceron ...
Müller-Holm, Ernst
(1861-1927) Swedish-born author, in Germany from an early age, whose Ein Rückblick aus dem Jahre 2037 auf das Jahr 2000: Aus den Erinnerungen des Herrn Julian West (1891; trans anon as My Afterdream: A Sequel to the Late Mr. Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward 1900) as by Julian West is a stridently negative response to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888), which is depicted as a whitewash over socialist ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...