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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 ...
Hairston, Andrea
(1952- ) US author and critic who began publishing standalone work of genre interest with "Griots of the Galaxy" in So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy (anth 2004) edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan. This was preceded by "Excerpt from Mindscape" in Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (anth 2004) edited by Sheree R Thomas, a portion of ...
Sleeper
Film (1973). Rollins-Joffe Productions/United Artists. Directed by Woody Allen. Written by Allen, Marshall Brickman. Cast includes Allen, John Beck, Mary Gregory, Diane Keaton and Don Keefer. 88 minutes. Colour. / The plot device of having a man from the present suddenly finding himself in the future (this time through Cryonics) is nearly always used to comment on contemporary society rather than to speculate about the future (see ...
Severn, David
Pseudonym of UK author David Storr Unwin (1918-2010), a member of the Unwin publishing family; most of his work was for older children, beginning with Rick Afire! (1942), the first of several nonfantastic titles – the rick here in question being in fact a mundane hayrick – in the Crusoe sequence, which was followed by the Warners series, similarly nonfantastic, perhaps so designed to comfort readers living through World War Two and its aftermath. Severn's ...
Dagnol, Jules N
Pseudonym of US author John Franklin Coasten Langdon (1913-1980), who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Man Who Could Smell Land" for Mast Magazine in 1947; his sf novel, The Sandoval Transmissions (1980), is a routine adventure. [SH/JC] see also: Robert Hale Limited. /
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 ...