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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 ...
Price, Lissa
(? - ) US author of a Young Adult Dystopia, Starters (2012), set in a Near Future America devastated by a "genocide spore" that has killed off anyone not vaccinated; as only children and old people were vaccinated in time, the survivors occupy a world whose operational heart has been evacuated. Teenagers are induced to rent their bodies for short ...
Ferguson, Brad
Working name of US radio executive and author Bradley Michael Ferguson (1953- ), who remains known mainly for four Star Trek Ties: Crisis on Centaurus (1986), A Flag Full of Stars (1991), Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Last Stand (1995) and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 13: The Haunted Starship (1997) with Kathi Ferguson (his wife, who is a scientist). He has also written one ...
Joshi, Ruchir
(1960- ) Indian journalist and author whose first novel, The Last Jet-Engine Laugh (2001), is set in Near Future Calcutta, around 2020/2030, but whose narrative shuttlecocks through various eras as the protagonist reflects upon his and his country's almost unendurably complex history from 1970 to the moment he sits down to reflect, sometime after cities like Bombay and Karachi have been destroyed by nuclear bombs as the ...
Monster Howls
Letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema Humour magazine printed on newsprint. Published by Robert C Sproul as Humour-Visions Incorporated. Editor: Milton Duggan. One issue only: December 1966. / Seemingly intended to test the waters for Sproul's For Monsters Only, this magazine appears to have been reasonably successful. It featured black and white photographs from various ...
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 ...