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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 ...
Cox, F Brett
(1958- ) US academic, playwright and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Love Is All You Need" in Forbidden Lines for October/November 1990. Much of his substantial output of short fiction has been fantasy, with an inclination to jostle the boundaries of traditional genres (see Fantastika); his Anthology, Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (anth 2004) ...
Griffith, Mary
(1772-1846) French-born author, in US from 1776; she changed her name from Mary Corré to Mary Griffith on marrying John Griffith (1768-1815), and published as Griffith after his death. Her nonfiction studies in horticulture and general scientific topics were respected. She is of sf interest for a Utopia, Three Hundred Years Hence (1950), which originally appeared as one of the stories in ...
Big Eyes, Small Mouth
Role Playing Game (1997). Guardians of Order (GOO). Designed by Mark MacKinnon. / Big Eyes, Small Mouth is a generic system used for playing games inspired by Japanese Anime and Manga, both those based on specific series and those which simply share the form's characteristic themes and enthusiasm for melodrama. The title refers to a heavily stylized approach to depicting human features ...
DeLillo, Don
(1936- ) US author, active from about 1960, though he has never collected his early fiction; after the publication of his first novel, Americana (1970), he very rapidly established a reputation for brilliance and seriousness, and for an unrelentingly adventurous Equipoise in subject matter and shape of story (see also Fabulation); as a ...
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 ...