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Chadha, Olivia
(? - ) US Comics writer, teacher and author whose first novel, Deluge and the Xerces Blue (2009), was issued in fulfilment of a thesis for the State University of New York at Binghamton, and may not be generally available; the tale focuses on Pollution issues. Her first published novel, Balance of Fragile Things (2012), adumbrates planetary ...
Bicentennial Man
Film (1999). 1492 Pictures, Columbia Pictures Corporation, Laurence Mark Productions, Touchstone Pictures (see The Walt Disney Company). Directed by Chris Columbus. Starring Embeth Davidtz, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Sam Neill, Oliver Platt, Stephen Root, Kiersten Warren, Robin Williams. Written by Nicholas Kazan from The Positronic Man (1992) by Isaac Asimov and Robert ...
Print Magazines
1. An entry which would have been superfluous in past editions of this encyclopedia because – with the exception of Centauri Express, which was a magazine in audio-cassette form (see Audiozine) – all Magazines, other than personal hand-written ones, were in print form. This may range from beautifully designed and printed SF Magazines such as ...
Fowke, Bob
(1950- ) UK artist, author and playwright who studied Illustration at Taunton College of Art. He worked mainly in gouache, acrylics, and oil paint, sometimes using acrylics as a base for oil and sometimes painting purely in acrylic or gouache. Early influences included such Renaissance painters as Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) and Lucas Cranach (1472-1553). Fowke began to publish work of genre interest in 1973 with paperback covers for ...
Farmer, Richard N
(1928-1987) US academic – Professor in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University – and author of Islandia Revisited (1983), a Sequel by Other Hands to Austin Tappan Wright's Islandia (1942); the visit to Islandia takes place during World War Two. [JC]
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 ...