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Dallos
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1983). Pierrot. Directed and written by Mamoru Oshii and Hisayuki Toriumi. Voice cast includes Tesshou Genda, Shuuichi Ikeda, Yoshiko Sakakibara and Hideki Sasaki. Four 30-minute episodes. Colour. / At the end of the twenty-first century Earth is prospering, the problems caused by Pollution and declining resources cured by the exploitation of the Moon's ...
Noel, Sterling
(1903-1984) US author and journalist, author of two sf novels: I Killed Stalin (1951), a Near-Future thriller in which World War Three is staved off by the deed described in the title; and We Who Survived (1959), which depicts the life and adventures of the survivors of the sudden onslaught of a new ice age (see Climate Change) as they flee south in a ...
Tex Murphy
Videogame series (from 1989). Access Software (AS). Designed by Aaron Conners, Brent Erickson, Christopher Jones. / Tex Murphy is a series of graphical Adventure games featuring the eponymous twenty-first-century private detective. The setting is a post-World War Three San Francisco, where the skies glow red with radiation and many of the inhabitants are down and out mutants. Tex, the ...
du Maurier, Guy
(1865-1915) UK soldier and author of An Englishman's Home: A Play in Three Acts (performed 27 January 1909 Wyndham Theatre, London; 1909 chap) as by A Patriot, a Future War drama in which England defends itself from Invasion; the short film England Invaded (1909) directed by Leo Stormont may have been based without authorization on this play. Du Maurier was the son of George ...
Brown, Rachel Manija
(1973- ) US poet and author, most of whose work has been fantasy or paranormal romance [mostly not recorded in Checklist below]; she began to publish work of genre interest with "River of Heaven" in Strange Horizons for 29 June 2009. An interest in the possibilities of the Steampunk-coloured Western as a fertile venue manifests itself in some of the tales assembled as ...
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 ...