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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 ...
Hale, Benjamin
(1983- ) US author whose first novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (2011), casually addresses issues of Evolution, though the first person narrator of the tale, an implausibly evolved chimpanzee (see Apes as Human), after describing his early years in a Zoo focuses primarily on the nature of language (see Linguistics) and ...
Son of Flubber
Film (1963). Walt Disney Productions (see The Walt Disney Company). Directed by Robert Stevenson. Produced by Walt Disney (uncredited). Associate producer Ron Miller. Screenplay by Don DaGradi and Bill Walsh from a story by Samuel A Taylor, based loosely on Danny Dunn and the Weather Machine (1959) by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams. Cast includes Fred ...
Trigell, Jonathan
(1974- ) UK author whose first novel, Boy A (2004), received considerable acclaim for its sympathetic approach to a child murderer attempting to reconstruct his life after release from prison, but hounded by the British popular press. Trigell's third novel, Genus (2011), is of sf interest for its depiction of a Near Future London hovering at the edge of genuine ...
Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers
Board and counter Wargame (1976). Avalon Hill. Designed by Randall Reed. / Starship Troopers is a simulation of the fictional reality depicted in Robert A Heinlein's 1959 Military SF novel of the same name. Its gameplay concentrates on what has perhaps proved to be the most influential feature of the book, despite its enthusiastic political evangelism: infantry combat between ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...