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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 ...
Richardson, E
Working name of Edith Richardson (1867-1935), UK illustrator and author who also published as Emmeline Richardson and as Eva Richardson. Neutopia (1925), a tale Equipoisal between the Scientific Romance and the formal Utopia, depicts a Lost World come upon by male explorers, even though it is protected by a desert (whose location is not given). Here a ...
Michaelis, Richard C
(1839-1909) German-born author in America for many years, whose Looking Further Forward: An Answer to Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy (1890; vt A Sequel to Looking Backward; Or, Looking Further Forward 1891) is a Sequel by Other Hands to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888) that mocks the socialist society presented in the original as a ...
La La
Pen-name of Zhong Xin (1977- ), a technician in a broadband internet company who won a Best Newcomer prize at the 2003 Yinhe Awards for his short story "Chun Ri Ze: Yun Meng Shan: Zhong Kun" ["Spring Sun Spring: Yun Meng Mountain: Elder Brother"] (2002 venue unknown). / His Yinhe-winning "Yongbu Xiaoshi de Dianbo" ["The Perpetual Electric Wave"] (December 2007 Kehuan Shijie; trans Petula Parris-Huang as ...
Melamed, Leo
(1932- ) Polish-born lawyer, investment counsellor and author, born Leo Melamdovich, a name simplified during his family's World War Two escape from Poland via Siberia and Japan to the US in the spring of 1941; most of his later work is nonfiction about the financial markets. Of sf interest is his first book, The Tenth Planet (1987), a tale in which an ancient Android may hold the secret to human ...
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 ...