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DIED. POUL ANDERSON, 74, award-winning writer of science fiction and fantasy; of prostate cancer; in Orinda, Calif. A self-described "total social misfit," Anderson escaped high school angst by immersing himself in books. He began writing his own stories and in college sold his first one, Tomorrow's Children, about the consequences of the atom bomb. Of his prolific output--which included such novels as Tau Zero and The Boat of a Million Years--his wife said, "We lost count after...
...Science fiction is about turning things on their head and playing out the consequences, not merely screaming and running back home. When Pericles shows up, giving Davidson a choice between staying with a half-dressed Estella Warren and flying the Yugo-sized space pod into a mysterious electromagnetic storm with unknowable consequences, Davidson doesn?t even consider sticking around. In fact, the whole movie he?s practically checking his watch - what, is a planet ruled by talking apes not interesting enough...
...would have stayed on the page if not for Terry Zwigoff, best known for Crumb, his 1994 documentary on the cartoonist. Eager to direct a fiction feature, the San Francisco filmmaker got in touch with Clowes to work on Ghost World. At first, they tried a close adaptation of the comic. "It wasn't working," Clowes says. "We were sustaining the corpse of something. So we took little tangents and enlarged them, and took things that were large in the comic and shrank them down to tangents. It was changed at the atomic level." Clowes remained an active force during...
...ARTHUR C. CLARKE, science fiction writer and futurist Perdido Street Station by CHINA MI?VILLE "It was the winner of the last Arthur C. Clarke Award, and I obviously had to see if the judges had used my money wisely. They...
Former colleagues noted that he was able to draw prominent filmmakers to the film center and worked hard to get students interested and engaged in the work of non-fiction filmmaking...