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Kinew, Wab
(1981- ) Canadian politician and author, premier of Manitoba (2023-current); he is of some sf interest for the Young Adult Floraverse sequence beginning with Walking in Two Worlds (2021), whose young protagonist who attempts to balance the stress of real life as an indigenous teenager with literal excursions into a ...
Obsidian
Videogame (1996). Rocket Science Games. Designed by Howard Cushnir, Scott Kim, Adam Wolff. Platforms: Win (1996); Mac (1997). / The striking commercial success of the first person graphical Adventure game Myst (1993 Cyan Worlds, Mac, Win; 1994 Saturn; 1995 3DO, JaguarCD, PS1; 1996 CDi; 1997 Amiga; 2006 PSP) designed by Rand Miller, Robyn Miller spawned a number ...
Horton, Forest W, Jr
(? - ) US author of a Technothriller, The Technocrats (1980), revolving around a super-Computer in the wrong hands, and the justified Paranoia this causes when it turns out that the computer is running America via a proxy Android president. [JC]
Moon Zero Two
Film (1969). Hammer/Warner Bros. Directed by Roy Ward Baker. Written by Michael Carreras. Cast includes Adrienne Corri, Warren Mitchell, James Olson and Catherine von Schell. 100 minutes. Colour. / At the same time as the first actual Moon landing, Hammer Films were making this quasi-Western set on the Moon, envisaged as a rip-roaring Frontier area; the results are absurd. One of the hoariest of pulp Western plots is dressed up with a lot of colourful space hardware: a poor but ...
Cox, A B
(1893-1971) UK author, in active service during World War One; best known for detective stories as by Anthony Berkeley and as by Francis Iles. He also wrote some fantasies and at least two sf works: The Professor on Paws (1926), in which a man's brain is transplanted into the family Cat (see Identity Transfer), but – in an odd prefiguration of Daniel ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...