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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 ...
Journeyman
US tv series (2007). Left Coast productions/20th Century Fox Television for NBC-TV. Created by Kevin Falls. Produced by Neal Ahern Jr. Directors included Andrew Bernstein, Leslie Linka Glatter, Frederick King Keller. Writers included Dana Calvo, Falls, Tracy McMillan, J R Orci. Cast includes Moon Bloodgood, Reed Diamond, Gretchen Egolf, Kevin McKidd and Charles Henry Wilson. 13 42-minute episodes. Colour. / In San Francisco, California, newspaper ...
Sudbanthad, Pitchaya
(? - ) Thailand journalist and author, now partially resident in the US, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Beginnings of the World" in Eyeshot for May 2003. He is of sf interest for his first novel, Bangkok Wakes to Rain (2019), a tale, set primarily in Bangkok, whose various narrative threads are separated and conjoined through Reincarnation-like re-embodiments of significant ...
Stout, Rex
(1886-1975) US author who began publishing poems and stories in magazines as early as 1910, and became best known for his Nero Wolfe detective stories, beginning with Fer-de-Lance (1934) and continuing to the end of his life, the last being A Family Affair (1975); none of the Wolfe novels and novellas have any fantastic content. Some of his early work does, however, contain fantastic elements: the book-length "A Prize for Princes" (2 May 1914 ...
Tau Ceti
Brazilian jazz-fusion band, whose sole release Tau Ceti (1998) includes a number of instrumental keyboard-heavy tracks that aim to evoke the flavour of alien worlds ("Antares", "Visoes Noturnas"), as well as a compressed three-part adaptation of Dante Alighieri, "A Divina Comedia". It is pleasant, if bland, fare. [AR]
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 ...