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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 ...
Fanthorpe, R L
(1935- ) UK author who became a schoolteacher and preacher, an occupation to which he returned after the end of his fiction-writing career. From 1954 to 1965 Fanthorpe was an sf writer of remarkable productivity, towards the end of that period producing novels on a weekly schedule for Badger Books, an imprint of John Spencer and Co, work-for-hire for which he was paid £22.50 per 45,000-word volume, dictating his tales into a battery ...
Münch, Paul Georg
(? -? ) German author of an anonymous Future War tale, Hindenburgs Einmarsch in London (1915; trans Louis G Redmond-Howard as Hindenburg's March into London: Being a Translation from the German Original 1916) as by Einem Deutschen Dichter ["A German Poet"], told from a patriotic German standpoint and climaxing in the fall of London through the ...
Guasch, Pol
Working name of Spanish/Catalan author Pol Guasch i Arcas (1997- ), whose first novel, Napalm al cor (2021; trans Mara Faye Lethem as Napalm in the Heart 2024), is set Equipoisally in either or both an indeterminately Near Future Nomansland or the remains of an earthly City that might have once ...
Connors, A
(? - ) UK author whose first novel, the Young Adult Near Future The Girl Who Broke the Sea (2023), confronts its young protagonist, an adolescent who feels trapped in the deep-sea mining and research station called Deephaven, with personal and ethical issues to solve. Her botanist mother and other Scientists are in the process of discovering 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 ...