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Lynch, David
(1946-2025) US actor, artist and musician and primarily filmmaker whose work extended Surrealism into mainstream Cinema and Television. Lynch's films tend to examine the uneasy truce between rationality and the unconscious mind by revealing how intimations of Sex, Identity and death make themselves felt in modern American communities. The term Lynchian was defined by David Foster ...
Yamamoto Hiroshi
(1956-2024) Japanese author whose influence extends not only through his own published works, but also through his connections, known, unknown and suspected, with several lobbies and factions within Japanese Fandom, including the game designers Group SNE and the Togakkai collaborative book mill, the latter largely devoted to nonfiction works celebrating and debunking Pseudoscience and the occult, not ...
Eberle, Merab
(1891-1959) US editor, poet, author of children's plays and of some sf, her only magazine story being "The Mordant" in Amazing for March 1930. A second tale was published as the first half of The Thought Translator/The Creation (anth 1930 chap), volume 9 in Hugo Gernsback's Science Fiction Series of short volumes focusing on relatively unknown writers. Neither story stands out ...
Flintstones, The
Animated tv series (1960-1966). Hanna-Barbera Productions with Screen Gems Presentations for ABC-TV. Produced by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna with Alan Dinehart and Alex Lovy. Directed by Barbera and Hanna. Writers included R S Allen,Tony Benedict, Harvey Eisenberg, Joanna Lee, Michael Maltese and Charles Snow. Cast includes Bea Benadaret, Mel Blanc, Daws Butler, Harvey Korman (occasional), Don Messick, Alan Reed, John Stephenson (occasional) and ...
Roberts, Willo Davis
(1928-2004) US author of books for adults, many of them nonsupernatural horror and gothics, and for children, including one Young Adult tale of sf interest, The Girl with the Silver Eyes (1980), in which a group of mothers, having been given experimental drugs, give birth to Mutant children. The young protagonist must choose whether or not to expose her ESP powers to an unfriendly world. ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...