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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 ...
Star Trek Games
The popularity of Star Trek throughout the 1970s and 1980s led to the creation of a number of games which either had a notable effect on the evolution of their particular form or exerted some influence on the development of the franchise as a whole. Perhaps the most significant were the earliest, the various freely distributed unauthorized Computer Wargames which appeared on academic mainframes during the 1970s, and may have ...
Hardware
Film (1990). Palace/Millimeter/A Wicked Films Production. Directed by Richard Stanley. Written by Stanley, based (it was admitted after a threatened lawsuit) on a 1980 Judge Dredd story. Cast includes William Hootkins, John Lynch, Dylan McDermott and Stacey Travis. 94 minutes, but many prints shortened to avoid adults-only rating. Colour. / In a radioactive City in an apparently ...
Watson, Patrick
(1929-2022) Canadian television and radio broadcaster, director and author, active (initially as a child actor on radio) from 1943; his current affairs programme for television, This Hour Has Seven Days (1964-1966), proved too Satirical for the Canadian authorities of that time, and was cancelled for lèse majesté. The resulting scandal intensified the desire of at least one science fiction encyclopedia editor to emigrate. Of his ...
Wheeler, Ramona Louise
(1952- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Flavor of Fire" in Analog for September 1998, which was the first of her Ray and Rokey series, assembled as Have Starship, Will Travel (coll of linked stories 2000), Starship for Hire (coll of linked stories 2001) and A Chance to Remember (2003). featuring the interstellar Space Opera ...
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 ...