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Davidson, Steve
(1958-2026) US fan (active with letters published in SF Magazines as early as 1978), editor and publisher. In 2012 he acquired the then-moribund Amazing Stories (which see), reviving it first as a lively website with a news and reviews blog, then with ebook and webzine issues, and – with help from Kickstarter funding – as a print magazine from August 2018 (#614 dated Fall 2018) to Summer 2020 (#619) with Ira ...
Outer Space Jitters
Short US film (1957). Columbia Pictures. Directed by Jules White. Written by Jack White. Cast included Emil Sitka, Gene Roth, Philip Van Zandt, Dan Blocker, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Joe Besser. 17 minutes. Black and white. / The Three Stooges (at the time Howard, Fine and Besser), have landed on Venus with Professor Jones (Sitka) and promptly discover that the Venusians are planning to conquer Earth with legions of Zombies. ...
Tiger & Bunny
Japanese animated tv series (2011). Sunrise. Directed by Keiichi Sato. Written by Masafumi Nishida. Voice cast includes Nobuhiko Fukuda, Hiroaki Hirata, Yuko Kaida and Masakazu Morita. 25 24-minute episodes. Colour. / Over the past 45 years, due to an unspecified mutation (see Mutants), people with Superpowers have begun to appear, called Noted Entities with eXtraordinary Talents (NEXT). Some ...
Jainschigg, Nicholas
(1961- ) American artist who also publishes as Nick Jainschigg. Before deciding on an artistic career, the young Jainschigg seriously considered becoming a palaeontologist, an interest still reflected in occasional assignments to provide museums with scientifically accurate images of prehistoric animals; he contributed similar artwork to "Extinction" (2006), an episode of the documentary series Naked Science. After receiving a BFA from the Rhode Island ...
Smith, A C
(1925-2011) UK author of a modest Space Opera, A Glimpse of Judgement (1978), for Robert Hale Limited. [JC]
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. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star ...