SF Encyclopedia Home Page
Friday 13 September 2024
Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Fourth Edition. Some sample entries appear below. Click here for the Introduction; here for the masthead; here for Acknowledgments; here for the FAQ; here for advice on citations. Find entries via the search box above (more details here) or browse the menu categories in the grey bar at the top of this page.
Site updated on 9 September 2024
Sponsor of the day: The Telluride Institute
Escape from Jupiter
Australian tv series (1994). Film Australia. Produced by Ron Saunders. Executive producers included Ron Saunders and Kagari Tajima. Directors included Fumitaka Tamura and Kate Woods. Writers included Martin Daley, David Ogilvy, John Patterson. Cast included Steve Bisley, Anna Choy, Arthur Dignam, Abe Forsythe, Robyn MacKenzie, Justin Rosniak, Daniel Taylor and Anne Tenney. Thirteen 25-minute episodes. Colour. / Juvenile mini-series, set in the ...
Clark, Karen
(1960- ) UK author whose The Synthetics (1988 chap) portrays a Dystopian Britain through the lens of its school system. [JC]
Infodump
An item of sf Terminology commonly used to designate chunks of technical discourse inserted into fictional texts, usually texts described as Hard SF, which are based (or claim to be based) on non-fantasized understandings of Technology and science. It is therefore often safe to assume that the infodump itself, certainly in the hard sf context, is a condensation of non-fantasized knowledge, and that it is ...
Huang, S L
Working name of Stephanie Cavagnaro-Wong (? - ) US stuntwoman and author whose Russell's Attic sequence, beginning with Zero Sum Game (2014), features an exceedingly tough female operative whose preternatural capacity to graph Mathematical calculi of movements in the real world makes her dangerous. She seems to have suffered a Memory Edit about the source of this ...
Behemoth, the Sea Monster
Film (1959; vt The Giant Behemoth US). Diamond/Allied Artists. Directors Douglas Hickox, Eugène Lourié. Written by Lourié. Cast includes Gene Evans, Jack MacGowran, Leigh Madison and André Morell. 80 minutes, cut to 72 minutes. Black and white. / Lourié made several Monster Movies during his career, including The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms ...
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 ...