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Edwards, Malcolm
(1949-2026) UK editor, critic and publisher, educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in anthropology. Active in UK sf Fandom in the 1970s and early 1980s, he published the first complete text of James Blish's "The Science in Science Fiction" (May 1951-May 1952 Science Fiction Quarterly) in his Fanzine Quicksilver #2 in 1971; edited the ...
Tenet
Film (2020). Warner Brothers Pictures in association with Syncopy. Written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Cast includes Kenneth Branagh, Elizabeth Debicki, Robert Pattinson and John David Washington. 150 minutes. Colour. / Tenet is a Time Travel action movie that abounds in visual symmetries and takes its title from the centrepiece of the Sator Square, an ancient Latin word-game which arranges five ...
Newman, John
(1927-1991) UK research chemist, author and fan who as J O Newman contributed a book review to Walter Gillings's Fantasy Review #2 (April/May 1947) and was listed as an associate editor of that publication from #6 (December 1947/January 1948) to #15 (Summer 1949). From 1953 to 1959 he published many science essays as John Newman in New Worlds and occasionally ...
Two People Exchanging Saliva
French film (2024; original title Deux personnes échangeant de la salive). Misia Films, Preromanbritain, Galeries Lafeyette. Written and directed by Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh. Cast includes Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Luàna Bajrami and Aurélie Boquien. 36 minutes. Black and white. / In an unspecified Dystopia which looks like contemporary Paris, kissing is a crime punishable by death, ...
Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (1965- ) Icelandic singer and composer, widely celebrated for her idiosyncratic vocal style and a left-field eccentricity of musical focus that often shades into sf; she has worked on occasion with the singer-songwriter and author Sjón between 1995 and 2011. "Human Behaviour", her first hit (from Debut, 1993) takes the position of a ...
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 ...