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Hildebrandt, The Brothers
Working name for the team of American artists Gregory J Hildebrandt (1939-2024) and Timothy Mark Allen Hildebrandt (1939-2006), identical twin brothers, although they also worked separately using the working names Greg Hildebrandt and Tim Hildebrandt. They will forever be regarded primarily as the definitive illustrators of J R R Tolkien because of the famous Tolkien calendars that featured their paintings of his characters; oddly enough, except for one 1975 ...
Dark Earth
Videogame (1997). Kalisto Entertainment. Designed by Guillaume Le Pennec, Sylvain Dousset, Frédéric Menne. Platforms: Win. / Dark Earth, an early example of the action Adventure form, is set on a sunless world, a future Earth shrouded in dust clouds thrown up by a catastrophic series of meteor impacts (see Ruined Earth). A few cities remain, huddled around mysterious ...
Field of Dreams
US movie (1989). Universal/Gordon. Directed by Phil Alden Robinson; producers Charles Gordon, Lawrence Gordon; executive producer Brian Frankish. Written by Robinson. Based on Shoeless Joe (1982) by W P Kinsella. Cast includes Dwier Brown, Timothy Busfield (Mark), Kevin Costner, Gaby Hoffman, James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster, Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan (Annie Kinsella) and Frank Whaley. 106 minutes. Colour. / Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella ...
Staniland, Meaburn
(1914-1992) UK antiquarian bookseller, editor and author, probably a descendant of the nineteenth-century politician Meaburn Staniland (1809-1898), Liberal Member of Parliament for Boston, Lincolnshire; with Penguin Books in the 1960s-1970s. His sf novel Back to the Future (1947) – which is in no way a precursor of Back to the Future (1985) and its sequels – sends its protagonist by defective ...
Journey to the Seventh Planet
Film (1962). Cinemagic. Directed by Sidney W Pink. Written by Ib Melchior and Sidney W Pink, based on a story by Sidney W Pink. Cast includes John Agar, Annie Birgit Garde, Mimi Heinrich, Bente Juel, Louie Miehe-Renard, Peter Monch, Ulla Moritz, Carl Ottosen, Ann Smyrner, Ove Sprogøe and Greta Thyssen. 77 minutes. Colour. / Having found no signs of life on the planets Mercury, Venus, ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...