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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 ...

Platform, The

Spanish film (2019); original title El hoyo ["The Hole"]. Basque Films, Mr Miyagi Films, Plataforma La Película A.I.E. Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia. Written by David Desola and Pedro Rivero. Cast includes Emilio Buale, Zorion Eguileor, Alexandra Masangkay, Iván Massagué and Antonia San Juan. 94 minutes. Colour. / The "Vertical Self-Management Centre" is a tower block that operates as a Prison. ...

Satire

From the earliest days of Proto SF, satire was its prevailing mode, and this inheritance was evident even after sf proper began in the nineteenth century. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines satire as literary work "in which prevailing vices or follies are held up to ridicule". Proto sf is seldom interested in imagining the societies of other worlds or future times for their own sake; most proto sf of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (by, ...

My Greatest Adventure

US Comic (1955-1964; 2011), published by DC Comics. Monthly. Writers included Arnold Drake and Bob Haney. Artists included Mort Mesklin, Jim Mooney, Ruben Moreira, and Alex Toth. Its unrelated stories, in keeping with the comic's title, were always narrated by their protagonists. / In its early issues, the comic featured the realistic adventures of rugged he-men in exotic locales, similar to the stories ...

Ross, David D

(1955- ) US author who began publishing sf with his Dreamers of the Day sequence – The Argus Gambit (1989) and The Eighth Rank (1991) – which complicatedly traces the political and cultural consequences of a twenty-first-century Ecological mystery that first threatens South American crops, then presages a possible worldwide Disaster. The seriousness with which he ...

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 ...