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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Invasion of the Bee Girls
Film (1973). Centaur/Sequoia. Directed by Denis Sanders. Written by Nicholas Meyer. Cast includes René Bond, Anitra Ford, William Smith and Victoria Vetri. 85 minutes. Colour. / This softcore erotic movie – perhaps inspired by The Wasp Woman (1959) – has deservedly developed a minor cult reputation for the outrageousness of its tacky if typical exploitation premise, that ...
Dandadan
Japanese animated tv series (2024-current; vt Dan Da Dan). Science SARU. Based on the Manga by Yukinobu Tatsu. Directed by Fūga Yamashiro. Written by Hiroshi Seko. Voice cast includes Natsuki Hanae, Kaito Ishikawa, Nana Mizuki, Ayane Sakura, Mayumi Tanaka and Shion Wakayama. Twelve 24-minute episodes to date. Colour. / Hotheaded Momo Ayase (Wakayama) comes to the aid of meek fellow student Ken Takakura (Hanae) who is ...
Alkon, Paul K
(1935-2020) US author and critic, Leo S Bing Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern California from 1980 until his retirement in 2007, subsequently emeritus; a specialist in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French literature. Origins of Futuristic Fiction (1987) is a vigorous and influential study of the creation of the idea of the future that evolved, mostly in France, from the end of the eighteenth century, as reflected in the fiction and literary theory ...
Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
Film (1966; vt Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.). AARU. Directed by Gordon Flemyng. Written by Milton Subotsky, based on a six-episode Doctor Who television story by Terry Nation, The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964). Cast includes Bernard Cribbins, Jill Curzon, Peter Cushing and Roberta Tovey. 84 minutes. Colour. / This was the second movie made by coproducers Milton Subotsky and Max J Rosenberg to cash in ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...