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Jerrold, Douglas
(1893-1964) UK publisher and author, in active service during World War One; his Near-Future Storm Over Europe (1930) expresses – through the history of Cisalpania, a Ruritania caught in the liberalizing trammels of twentieth-century thought and politics, until monarchy is restored – an anti-semitic, conservative Roman Catholic view of history which his contemporaries ...
Cravens, Gwyneth
(? - ) US author of The Black Death (1977) with John S Marr, then head of the New York City Bureau of Preventible Diseases, about a Near Future Disaster in which the eponymous plague (see Pandemic) is transmitted unknowingly by a young woman; it was filmed as Quiet Killer (1992). Speed of Light: The Adventures of Ella Speed ...
Trigun
Japanese animated tv series (1998). Original title Toraigan. Based on the Manga by Yasuhiro Nightow. Madhouse. Directed by Satoshi Nishimura. Written by Yōsuke Kuroda. Voice cast includes Tohru Furusawa, Sho Hayami, Aya Hisakawa, Masaya Onosaka, Hiromi Tsuru and Satsuki Yukino. 26 25-minute episodes. Colour. / With red trenchcoat, shaving-brush hair, Lennon glasses and the motto "Love and ...
Morimi Tomihiko
(1979- ) Writing name of a Japanese author whose work bridges many trends in Japan, including concentrations on studied, commodified "cute", contemporary romance, postmodernism (see Postmodernism and SF) and the Media Landscape. / A master's graduate in Agriculture from Kyōto University, Morimi was first published while still a student, and continues to draw ...
Saperstein, David
(1937- ) US author, producer, director and screenwriter whose original storyline was the basis of the film Cocoon (1985) directed by Ron Howard. Saperstein also novelized the script as Cocoon (1985) and wrote his own sequels Metamorphosis (1988) – not based on the film's sequel – and Butterfly: Tomorrow's Children (2013 ebook). / Further work of genre interest includes the ...
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 ...