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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 ...
Gibbons, Charles Harrison
(1869-1931) Canadian author of an sf novel, The Marbled Catskin (1928), in which the survivors of Atlantis have suffered Devolution in Africa, the last surviving being a dwarfish witch. [JC]
Allston, Aaron
(1960-2014) US author and Role Playing Game designer who published many nonfiction pieces in this area, was editor of Space Gamer magazine 1982-1983, and co-designed the games Justice, Inc (1984) and The Savage Empire (1990) (see Worlds of Ultima). Several though not all of his novels are tied to the Star Wars universe ...
Solaris [magazine]
French-language Canadian SF Magazine founded in 1974 by Norbert Spehner as a Fanzine titled Requiem and renamed Solaris in 1979 (see Canada). In 1983 the editorship was taken over by a collective which was led by Élisabeth Vonarburg and included Daniel Sernine. Luc Pomerleau took ...
Oliver, Jerome
(1886-? ) US author of Khan, Phantom Emperor of 1940 (1934), a Near Future tale in which a threatened world conflagration, as plotted by the eponymous aspirant to world domination (see Yellow Peril), is averted. [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 ...