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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 ...
Irvanets, Oleksandr
(1961- ) Ukrainian author, poet, and translator, of genre interest for his dystopia Rivni/Rovno (2002), which imagined his hometown split by a Political border inspired by his experience of visiting Berlin during the Cold War. / Framed in part as a tourist guide to the twinned cities (compare to similar Fabulation in the works of ...
Maltese, William
Primary pseudonym of US author William J Lambert Jr (1944- ), most of whose work is erotica, some gay, some hetero; two of these are sf: the Tlen series comprising g Five Roads to Tlen (1970) and The Gods of Tlen (1970), both as William J Lambert, III, and Bond-Shattering (2005), the latter being a Space Opera in which relations between species are governed by a compelling aphrodisiac. The ...
Brouwer, Sigmund
(1959- ) Canadian author, mostly of nonfantastic work for Young Adult readers, and of detective fiction, active from around 1985, much of this work being couched to advocate Christian programs for the world. His sf titles, many of which explain issues of science in terms of Religious doctrine, are also numerous, beginning with his first novel, Double Helix (1959), ...
Edge, The
UK A4-size review-and-comment Semiprozine, somewhat left field, with a discerning interest in indie culture and art, but which also carried alternative and experimental fiction influenced by the Michael Moorcock-era New Worlds and by the British music and culture magazine The Face. It was published and edited by journalist David Clark (until 2001 under his alias Graham Evans) since ...
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 ...