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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 ...
Cotton, Donald
(1928-1999) UK scriptwriter, who wrote an episode for Adam Adamant Lives! (1966-1967), but had more (though still limited) success with two scripts for Doctor Who, "The Myth Makers" (shown 1965), which he novelized as Doctor Who: The Myth Makers (1985), and "The Gunfighters" (shown 1966), which he novelized as Doctor Who: The Gunfighters (1985), both assembled as ...
Statistics
As of the latest update to this page on 13 January 2025, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction contains 20,297 entries totalling 7,199,807 words. There are 256,261 internal hyperlinks between entries, corresponding to cross-references in past book editions. / When the online Encyclopedia was first launched in October 2011 as the Third Edition, the figures were 12,230 entries, 3,222,920 words and 113,492 hyperlinks. The second print edition (1993) had 6571 entries ...
Edge, The
UK A4-size review-and-comment Semiprozine, somewhat left field, with a discerning interest in indie culture and art, but which also carried alternative and experimental fiction influenced by the Michael Moorcock-era New Worlds and by the British music and culture magazine The Face. It was published and edited by journalist David Clark (until 2001 under his alias Graham Evans) since ...
Moulder, Victor
(1867-1949) US author of a Lost Race novel, Ophiris; Or, the Ophir of Solomon: A Story of Adventure & Love in the Land of the Incas (1902), set as its subtitle implies in the mountains of Brazil and Peru, where a civilization descended from the Incan empire is discovered; the tale interjects some occult Solomonic material. [JC]
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...