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Broderick, Damien
(1944-2025) Australian author, editor and critic; he had a PhD in the semiotics of fiction, science and sf with special reference to the work of Samuel R Delany. He edited four anthologies of Australian sf: The Zeitgeist Machine (anth 1977), Strange Attractors (anth 1985), Matilda at the Speed of Light (anth 1988) and Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction (anth ...
Warning from Space
Japanese film (1956). Original title Uchūjin Tokyo ni Arawaru; vt Mysterious Satellite. Daiei Film. Directed by Koji Shima. Written by Hideo Oguni (based on a draft by Gentaro Nakajima). Cast includes Toyomi Karita and Isao Yamagata. 87 minutes. Colour. / After UFO reports from around the world, one is seen falling into Tokyo Bay, followed by sightings of Monsters; shortly after, a ...
Frozen Alive
Film (1964; original title Der Fall X701). Alfa Films/Feature Film Corporation of America (US), Butcher's Film Service (UK). Directed by Bernard Knowles. Written by Evelyn Frazer. Cast includes Marianne Koch, Delphi Lawrence, Walter Rilla, Joachim Stein and Mark Stevens. 81 minutes. Black and white. / Dr Frank Overton (Stevens) is working on Suspended Animation at the Low Temperature Research Laboratory (see ...
Parker, William
(1952- ) US double bassist, composer and band leader, whose hugely prolific output has been central to free jazz since the 1970s. Ambitious as a composer, equally at home in small groups, big bands and completely free settings, like a number of jazz musicians whose work is rooted in a cosmic spirituality, he has utilized inspiration from sf on several occasions, as titles like Double Sunrise over Neptune (2008) and Mayan Space Station (2021) ...
Turner, Jim
(1945-1999) US editor and publisher who ran Arkham House from 1976 to 1996, when he was fired. Here, though without cover credit, he edited a notable retrospective collection of James Tiptree's stories, Her Smoke Rose Up Forever: The Great Years of James Tiptree, Jr (coll 1990), and a reprint anthology of stories "inspired" by H P Lovecraft's ...
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 ...