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Sallis, James
(1944-2026) US musician, poet and author, briefly active in New Worlds during its Michael Moorcock-directed New-Wave phase; he began to publish work of genre interest in this context with "Kazoo" (August 1967 New Worlds) and co-edited the magazine 1968-1969. His clearly acknowledged models in the French avant garde and the gnomic brevity of much of his work ...
Spectreman
Japanese tv series (1971-1972; vt Uchū Enjin Gori; vt Gori vs. Spectreman). P-Productions. Created by Daiji Kazumine and Sôji Ushio (aka Tomio Sagisu). Directors include Kôichi Ishiguro and Keinosuke Tsuchiya. Writers include Tsunehisa Itô, Susumu Takaku, Sôji Ushio and Haruya Yamazaki. Cast includes Machiko Konishi, Tetsuo Narikawa and Takanobu Tôya. 63 24-minute episodes (plus ...
Landis, Arthur H
(1917-1986) US author and editor. While editing for Dealer's Voice, a motorcycle magazine, Landis convinced his publisher to begin a new fantasy magazine, Coven 13, which he edited for four issues September 1969-March 1970 before the title passed to William L Crawford. He published there a four-part serial as by James R Keaveny, which became A World Called Camelot (September 1969-March 1970 ...
Star Trek Into Darkness
Film (2013). Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions present a Bad Robot production. Directed by J J Abrams. Written by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman & Damon Lindelof. Cast includes John Cho, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve, Bruce Greenwood, Leonard Nimoy, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoë Saldana, Karl Urban, Peter Weller and Anton Yelchin. 133 minutes. Colour, 3D (converted). / After Kirk is demoted following a Prime ...
Beeching, Jack
Working name of UK poet and author John Charles Stuart Beeching (1922-2001), active from before World War Two, in which he served; author (in collaboration with his first wife Gwendoline Mathews) of numerous Young Adult historical novels as James Barbary. His sf novel, The Dakota Project (1968), is a Near Future tale focusing on the eponymous, claustrophobic government project which ...
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 ...