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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 ...
Gill, Judy
(1942- ) Canadian author, almost all of whose books are nonfantastic romances under her full name, Judy Griffith Gill. Of sf interest is Whispers on the Wind (2001), a romantic Space Opera tale whose protagonist, member of a Alien Telepathic Pariah Elite trapped on Earth, must liaise with a human female in order to find his way back ...
Jarman, Peter
Pseudonym of UK electronics entrepreneur and futurologist Peter Kruger (? - ), whose Three Jumps into the Labyrinth (coll of linked stories 1990) – published by his own firm, Digithurst, Ltd – adroitly examines issues of Perception through three stories, which each describe the same events as radically transfigured by information-aged technologies just an instant ahead of the actual world of 1994; ...
Ísberg, Fríða
(1992- ) Icelandic poet and author, active from around 2015; she is of sf interest for her first novel, Merking (2021; trans Larissa Kyzer as The Mark 2024), a Near Future Dystopia involving Cultural Engineering through "well-meant" but deeply intrusive monitoring of the population of Iceland through an Empathy Test that can be ...
Grimes
Working name of Canadian singer and musician Claire Elise Boucher (1988- ). Her first album Geidi Primes (2010) is a beautiful, slippery collection of hypnagogic electronic pop songs inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune (fixup 1965) and the film version Dune (1984) directed by David Lynch. Several tracks are named after places ("Caladan") or ...
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 ...