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Edwards, Malcolm
(1949-2026) UK editor, critic and publisher, educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in anthropology. Active in UK sf Fandom in the 1970s and early 1980s, he published the first complete text of James Blish's "The Science in Science Fiction" (May 1951-May 1952 Science Fiction Quarterly) in his Fanzine Quicksilver #2 in 1971; edited the ...
Self/less
US film (2015). Focus Features. Directed by Tarsem Singh. Written by Alex Pastor and Dan Pastor. Cast includes Michelle Dockery, Victor Garber, Matthew Goode, Ben Kingsley, Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen, Derek Luke, Natalie Martinez, Thomas Francis Murphy and Ryan Reynolds. 117 minutes. Colour. / Multimillionaire Damian Hale (Kingsley) is dying, but he learns of an exciting opportunity offered by a man named Albright (Goode); for a large fee, Albright tells him, he can transfer his ...
Roszak, Theodore
(1933-2011) US historian – latterly professor emeritus of history at California State University, until his death – and author of several works of cultural criticism, most famously The Making of a Counter Culture (1969) and also including The Cult of Information (1986), which is highly sceptical about the contemporary boom in Information Theory. He began writing sf with Bugs (1981), in which a ...
Infinity Science Fiction
US Digest-size magazine. 20 issues November 1955 to November 1958, published by Royal Publications, edited by Larry T Shaw; irregular, with four months between some issues, one month between others. Infinity Science Fiction was one of the most interesting of the flood of new sf magazines in the early and mid-1950s. Its first issue featured Arthur C Clarke's ...
Hamill, Pete
(1935-2020) US journalist, editor and author, active since the mid-1950s; well into his career, he published a tale of genre interest with "From the Lake" (March 1985 Asimov's). Most of his work, nonfiction or fiction, focused on his native New York, including two works of interest as Fantastika: in Snow in August (1997), a boy from Brooklyn and a Czech rabbi join forces to fight anti-Semitic ...
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 ...