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Anderson, Ros
(? - ) UK dancer, journalist and author whose first novel, The Hierarchies (2020), is narrated by an AI named Sylv.ie (which is to say Sylv Intelligence Embodied), whose sole function as a Sex doll physically indistinguishable from humans is to satisfy the ravenous needs of human males. Sylv.ie's growth in self-awareness leads her away from her human owner into a ...
Paprika
Film (2006). Sony Pictures Entertainment presents a Madhouse Production. Directed by Satoshi Kon. Written by Satoshi Kon and Seishi Minakami, based on the novel Paprika (1993) by Yasutaka Tsutsui. Cast (voice only) includes Tōru Emori, Tōru Furuya, Megumi Hayashibara, Katsunosuke Hori, Akio Ōtsuka, Daisuke Sakaguchi and Kōichi Yamadera. Music by Susumu ...
Asimov, Janet
(1926-2019) US psychoanalyst and author, married to Isaac Asimov from 1973 until his death in 1992; she signed her early books J O Jeppson. Most of her sf is written for children, though her first venture, The Second Experiment (1974) as Jeppson, is an expansive tale whose main protagonist – a Robot – traces and deeply impacts upon the long story of the race that created him (see ...
Gutteridge, Lindsay
(1923-2007) UK author, commercial artist and art teacher. His sf series featuring Matthew Dilke – Cold War in a Country Garden (1971), Killer Pine (1973) and Fratricide Is a Gas (1975) – calls upon themes from espionage to Ecology to buttress far-fetched tales of a government agent Miniaturized with some companions (see ...
Kenin, Millea
(1942-1992) US editor, publisher, anthologist, poet and author active in Fandom, who began to release stories of genre interest with "The Knight of the Road" in Potboiler for February 1982. Under her birth name Millea Levin she was founder-editor of the Poetry journal Sciamachy (1960-1964), contributors with entries in this encyclopedia including John Clute and Thomas M ...
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 ...