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Butler, William
(1929- ) US author best known for nonfantastic novels, some set in Japan. The Butterfly Revolution (1961), which is of sf interest, describes the almost instantaneous Dystopian tyranny created when a group of children "trapped" in a holiday camp take it over, a Satirical vision of an unhinged America which climaxes in the savage lynching of a Black camper (see ...
Venture Science Fiction
1. US Digest-size magazine, sixteen issues, published by Fantasy House (a subsidiary of Mercury Publications) January 1957 to July 1958 and revived by Mercury Press, May 1969 to August 1970, in both cases a companion to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The first series saw ten bimonthly issues edited by Robert P Mills; the second series saw six quarterly issues edited by Edward ...
Time After Time
Film (1979). Orion/Warner Bros. Directed by Nicholas Meyer. Written by Meyer, from a story by Karl Alexander, Steve Hayes, based on Time After Time (1979) by Karl Alexander. Cast includes Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen and David Warner. 112 minutes. Colour. / Dr Stevenson (Warner), whom we soon learn to be Jack the Ripper, eludes police by stealing the ...
Harrison, T Milner
(1865-1917) Canadian entrepreneur, almost certainly in Hawaii in 1897 where a Thomas Milner Harrison was involved in a firm engaged in selling the Hagey Gold Cure in Hawaii and the South Pacific, an enterprise which dissolved in litigation in 1902. As an author, he published one Lost World tale, Modern Arms and a Feudal Throne: The Romantic Story of an Unexplored Sea (1904), which moves from Hawaii to the South Pacific, ...
Future Boy Conan
Japanese animated tv series (1978; vt Conan, The Boy in Future). Original title Mirai Shōnen Konan. Based on the novel The Incredible Tide (1970) by Alexander Key. Nippon Animation. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Written by Satoshi Kurumi, Akira Nakano and Sōji Yoshikawa. Voice cast includes Iemasa Kayumi, Ichirô Nagai, Mieko Nobusawa, Noriko Ohara, ...
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 ...