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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 ...
Schenck, Bradley W
(? - ) US illustrator, Games designer and author, who has also written as by Morno. Along with his early work in Role Playing Game design, he published at least two stories of genre interest, beginning with "The Forest of Flame" (April 1977 The Dragon Magazine) as by Morno, with many later texts of various sorts [not listed below] for the fantasy game Arduin, and was involved ...
Tékumel
Role Playing Game setting. Designed by M A R Barker. / Tékumel is a richly realized future milieu, depicted in a Science Fantasy mode analogous to that employed by Marion Zimmer Bradley for her world of Darkover. The setting is arguably comparable with J R R Tolkien's Secondary World of ...
Hayne, Coe
(1875-1961) US Baptist minister and author, often on Native American topics (he is of a generation to refer exclusively to "Indians", for whom he felt a deep sympathy); of his novels, two Young Adult tales featuring Indian Lost Races are of moderate interest, The City in the Clouds: A Tale of the Last Inca (1919 chap), about a South American City still under Incan rule, and ...
Davies, Paul
(1946- ) UK physicist, science writer and sf author whose scientific nonfiction is perhaps more distinguished than his sf. His novel Fireball (1987) has Antimatter pellets impacting Earth and creating chaos; although their actual source is an Alien spacecraft, they are interpreted by the USA as a Soviet weapon. The ideas are interesting, the thriller elements routine. However, his academic science ...
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 ...