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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 ...
Earthquake
Film (1974). Universal. Directed by Mark Robson. Written by George Fox, Mario Puzo. Cast includes Genevieve Bujold, Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene, Charlton Heston and George Kennedy. 123 minutes. Colour. / This film is included in the encyclopedia as a representative member of a class of marginally sf films, Disaster movies, which normally deal with events that, while they have not yet happened, plausibly might in the very ...
Ice River
US Amateur Magazine published in letter-size format by David Memmott of Union, Oregon, one of the earliest to use desktop publishing technology. It ran for six issues from Summer 1987 to February 1990, appearing twice a year and never making its planned triannual schedule. It was supported by a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment of the Arts which allowed the magazine to make a token payment to contributors, but was never ...
Macowan, Norman
(1877-1961) UK actor and playwright, whose Near Future play, Glorious Morning: A Play in Three Acts (1938 chap), is set in the Graustarkian (see George Barr McCutcheon; Ruritania) state of Zagnira, where a Joan of Arc figure foments revolution. [JC]
Rea, J M
(? - ) UK author of Once Upon a UFO (Out of the Blue) (1993), an sf novel featuring Aliens, UFOs, a Time-stasis engine, and more. [JC]
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...