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Brown, Eric
(1960-2023) UK author who began publishing sf – after a children's play, Noel's Ark (1982 chap) – with "Krash-Bangg Joe and the Pineal-Zen Equation" for Interzone in Autumn 1987; like several further tales assembled in The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories (coll 1990), it is set in a future world dominated by the effects of bio-engineering and dense with information. This marriage of Cordwainer ...
Wallace, Nick
(1972- ) UK media consultant and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Five Dimensional Thinking" in Life During Wartime (anth 2003) edited by Paul Cornell, like most of his work a contribution to the Doctor Who universe, in this case the Bernice Summerfield subseries. Fear Itself (2005) is set in the Doctor Who BBC Past Doctors subseries. ...
Push
Film (2009). Summit Entertainment in association with Icon Productions presents an Infinity Features Entertainment production. Directed by Paul McGuigan. Written by David Bourla. Cast includes Camilla Belle, Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Joel Gretsch and Djimon Hounsou. 111 minutes. Colour. / A motley group of fugitive psychics in Hong Kong devise an elaborate plan to bring down the US covert operations division which has been forcibly harnessing the mutants' ...
Molstad, Stephen
(1960- ) US author of Ties, usually with Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, concentrating on the Independence Day universe, starting with Independence Day (1996), which novelizes Independence Day (1996); he also wrote Godzilla (1998), novelizing Godzilla (1998), which ...
2010
Film (1984). MGM/UA. Produced, directed, photographed and written by Peter Hyams, based on 2010: Odyssey Two (1982) by Arthur C Clarke. Cast includes Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren and Roy Scheider. 116 minutes. Colour. / Nine years after the events of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), a joint Soviet-US space mission in a Russian ...
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 ...