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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 ...
27th Day, The
Film (1957). Romson Productions/Columbia. Directed by William Asher. Written by John Mantley, based on his The Twenty-Seventh Day (1956). Cast includes Gene Barry, Valerie French, Azenath Janti, Arnold Moss, Stefan Schnabel and George Voskovec. 75 minutes. Black and white. / Some moments of good sense and sensible conversation can be extracted from the contorted implausibility and terrifying moral implications of this film, which was ...
Galopin, Arnould
(1863-1934) French author whose nonfantastic novels were critically respected; several were set in World War One, and reflected his war service in the Merchant Marine. Most of his career, however, was focused on popular thrillers, often containing a fantastic element, as in the Doctor Omega sequence beginning with Le Docteur Omega [for subtitle see Checklist below] (1906; adapted Jean-Marc Lofficier ...
Nelson, H J
(? - ) US author of Young Adult fiction; the young protagonist of her Last She sequence, beginning with The Last She (2016-2017 Wattpad; 2021), finds herself in a desolated and abandoned Near Future world, soon after a savage Pandemic has decimated the human population. Her survival and eventual absorption into a group of near-feral ...
Lampton, Chris
(1950- ) US author who began writing sf with "The Most Dangerous Man in the World" for Void in 1975 with David F Bischoff, also collaborating with Bischoff on his first novel, The Seeker (1976); he continued his short active career with two further competent sf adventures, Cross of Empire (1976) and Gateway to Limbo (1979). [JC]
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 ...