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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 ...
Chomichuk, GMB
Working name of Canadian teacher, illustrator and author Gregory M B Chomichuk (? - ), who also signs as G M B Chomichuk, author of several Graphic Novels and other visual work, including significant contributions to the Original Anthology series, The Imagination Manifesto beginning with The Imagination Manifesto, Books 1 (anth 2010) [not listed below]. He is ...
Pears' Annual
A Christmas annual published by A & F Pears, the firm noted for their soap and made even more famous by their advertisements using the painting Bubbles by Sir John Everett Millais. The annual appeared each year from 1891 to 1926. Most issues, except the last few, were in large tabloid format (15.75 x 11 in; 400 x 280 mm) and were heavily illustrated with a selection of Christmas features and stories. Of special interest is the Annual for 1919 which brought together a series of ...
Hoobler, Thomas
(1942- ) US author, mostly nonfiction in collaboration with his wife, Dorothy Hoobler. Of sf interest is the Hunters sequence comprising The Hunters (1978) with Burt Wetanson and The Treasure Hunters (1983) with Burt Wetanson, featuring a race of Aliens who use Earth as an arena for staged (but not unfair) ...
Fullerton, Alexander
(1924-2008) UK author, best known for the Nicholas Everard series of naval adventures set in World War One and World War Two; of his numerous singletons, Regenesis (1983) is a Near Future tale, set at sea. [JC]
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...