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Foster, Alex
(? - ) US editor and author who is of sf interest for his first novel, Circular Motion (2025), a Fabulation set in at least initially in a Near Future London, though a device from the SF Megatext – a near-orbit rapid Transportation system – duly scatters the cast. The sf ...
Shippey, Tom
Working name of Indian-born academic and editor Thomas A Shippey (1943- ), in the UK from childhood; Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of Leeds 1979-1993; held the Walter J Ong Chair of Humanities at St Louis University 1993-2008. In essays and reviews, which he has been publishing since the mid-1970s, he takes a clear-headed orthodox view of the central figures of sf and fantasy; ...
Zenshu
Japanese animated tv series (2025). MAPPA. Directed by Mitsue Yamazaki. Written by Kimiko Ueno. Voice cast includes Manaka Iwami, Rie Kugimiya, Anna Nagase, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Akio Suyama, Minori Suzuki and Kazuki Ura. Twelve 24 minute episodes. Colour. / The directorial debut of 22-year-old animator Natsuko Hirose's (Nagase) a massive success; her studio have high hopes for her follow-up anime, which they tell her will be titled "First Love" and provide a ...
Kilink Istanbul'da
["Kilink in Istanbul"] Turkish film (1967). Atadeniz Film. Directed by Yilmaz Atadeniz. Written by Çetin Inanç. Cast includes Irfan Atasoy, Feridun Çölgeçen, Yildirim Gencer, Pervin Par and Muzaffer Tema. 71 minutes. Black and white. / The Kilink films are based on the Italian photo comic Killing, which began in 1966 and concerns the violent adventures of the brutal skeleton-suited ...
Leiber, Fritz
(1910-1992) US author, father of Justin Leiber; his work runs the gamut from sf through fantasy and horror, with many tales achieving an eloquent Equipoise that enabled him to jostle various genres together, riding them with a freedom unusual for the period of their composition, making him a powerful model for later writers. Leiber majored in psychology and physiology at the University of Chicago, then spent a year at a theological ...
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 ...