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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 ...
Chandrasekera, Vajra
(1979- ) Sri Lanka-born author of mostly speculative fiction, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Pockets Full of Stones" in Clarkesworld for July 2013. He has published over a hundred short stories, essays, reviews, and articles, appearing in Analog, Clarkesworld, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Volume 2 (anth 2021) edited by Tarun ...
Kapp, Colin
(1928-2007) UK author and worker in electronics, initially with the Mullard Radio Valve Company; later a freelance electroplating consultant. He began publishing sf with "Life Plan" for New Worlds in November 1958, and much of his best work soon appeared in this magazine, including "Lambda I" (December 1962 New Worlds) – which deals with the perils of Transportation through the solid Earth ...
Dante 01
Film (2008). Eskwad/Wild Bunch. Directed by Marc Caro. Written by Caro and Pierre Bordage. Cast includes Simona Maicanescu, Dominique Pinon and Lambert Wilson. 82 minutes. Colour. / French director Caro's solo debut shares a premise with Alien Resurrection (1997), directed by his frequent collaborator Jean-Pierre Jenuet: a group of Scientists are carrying out dubious and dangerous research on a ...
Mills, Samantha
(?- ) US author of speculative fiction who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Gestational Cycle of Flies in a Cupboard" in LampLight for March 2018. Her work has since appeared in several publications, including Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Uncanny. "Rabbit Test" (November/December 2022 ...
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 ...