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Vinge, Vernor

(1944-2024) US author and professor of mathematics at San Diego State University until 2000, when he retired to write full-time; married to Joan D Vinge 1972-1979. He began publishing sf with "Apartness" for New Worlds in June 1965, and appeared fairly regularly in Analog, his best early work being collected in True Names and Other Dangers (coll 1987), which contains ...

Big Hero 6

US animated film (2014). Walt Disney Animation Studios (see The Walt Disney Company). Loosely based on the Marvel Comic Big Hero 6 by Man of Action. Directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams. Written by Robert L Baird, Dan Gerson and Jordan Roberts. Voice cast includes Scott Adsit, James Cromwell, Daniel Henney, Ryan Potter and Alan Tudyk. 102 minutes. Colour. / The time is the early 2030s (see ...

Dirda, Michael

(1948-    ) US editor, journalist and author, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his journalism; as a Book World editor for the Washington Post (1978-2003) he was an influential advocate of sf as a form of literature worth serious attention, creating and editing a monthly sf column by various critics, as well as making room for individual reviews. He now writes a weekly column for the Post; his work also appears in the New York Review of Books and ...

Kahler, Jack

(?   -    ) US author of a soft-porn sf novel (see Sex), Latex Lady (1964; vt Rubber Dolly 1966), about an Android sex toy. [JC]

Attack of the Crab Monsters

Film (1957). Los Altos/Allied Artists. Directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B Griffith. Cast includes Leslie Bradley, Pamela Duncan, Richard Garland and Russell Johnson. 70 minutes cut to 64 minutes. Black and white. / Two giant crabs, mutations (see Mutants) caused by radiation from an H-bomb test on an island, scuttle out of the sea and destroy all of one and most of another expedition to the island. Eerily, ...

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. His first professional publication was a long sf-tinged poem, "Carcajou Lament" (Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959] Triquarterly); he only began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and sf proper with ...



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