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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 ...
Cowboy Bebop
Japanese animated tv series (1998-1999). Sunrise, Bandai Visual. Directed by Shinichirō Watanabe. Written by Keiko Nobumoto and others. Voice cast includes Megumi Hayashibara, Unshō Ishizuka and Kōichi Yamadera. 26 episodes of 25 minutes. Colour. / In the year 2071, the Solar system is home to a colourful melting-pot (but largely Chinese) diaspora, made possible by localized Hyperspace gateways. Earth, however, ...
Milton, Walter R
(1964- ) US author of Inheritance of Vigilance (2002), set in a Post-Holocaust America suddenly exposed to forces – possibly occult – surfacing from the deep past, and Independence Day Testimony (2003), a Military SF tale set in a new warship just as interstellar War breaks out. [JC]
Different Realities
US Print Magazine dedicated to translating sf into English from French, Italian and Dutch sources; edited by Joe F Randolph of Washington, District of Columbia, who also did all the translations. Different Realities saw four large-size issues dated August and December in 1997 and 1998. The first two issues concentrated on short fiction, with work by Gerben Hellinga, Serge Rollet, Alain le Bussy, Daniel Walther and others. The final two issues ran ...
Red Dwarf
UK tv series (1988-current). A Paul Jackson Production for BBC North West; from Series IV, a Grant Naylor Production for BBC North. Produced by Ed Bye, Rob Grant, Doug Naylor. Directed by Bye. Written Grant, Naylor as Grant Naylor; in season VII, Naylor, Paul Alexander, Kim Fuller, Robert Llewellyn; in VIII, Naylor, Alexander. Cast includes Craig Charles ...
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 ...