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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 ...
Muž z Prvního Století
["Man from the First Century"] Czech film (1962; vt The Man from the First Century; vt The Man from the Past; Man in Outer Space). Filmové Studio Barrandov. Directed by Oldřich Lipský. Written by Lipský, Miloŝ Fiola and Jan Fišer (story); Lipský, Fiola, Fišer, and Zdeněk Bláha (screenplay). Cast includes Anita Kajlichova, Otomar Krejča, Milos Kopecký, ...
Warren, Bill
Working name of William Bond Warren (1943-2016), sf fan and film buff, author with Allan Rothstein of the Recursive SF murder mystery Fandom Is a Way of Death (1984 chap), set in and distributed at the 1984 Worldcon in Los Angeles, and featuring many fan characters including Forrest J Ackerman. Warren worked with Walt Lee on the latter's monumental, ...
Purkey, Ruth Angell
(? - ) US playwright, two of whose several dramas are of some sf interest. Hangs Over my Head (first performed 1956; in The Best Short Plays of 1955-56, anth 1956) is set just before an increasingly likely World War Three; a cast rehearsing a play, lacking any script to deal with their private and public dramas, accost a Mysterious Stranger in search of a ...
May, Emmet C
(1875-1947) US businessman and author, of some sf interest for White Bear and Gold: Tall Tales by the Wandering Jew (coll of linked stories 1931) (see Wandering Jew), which contains a range of stories, from examples of the Tall Tale [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] through faux-legends on to the depiction of a Lost Race discovered under ...
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 (1966-1967), and later in ...