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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 ...
M'Guire, Sean
(? -? ) UK author of two Lost Race novels of interest. Spider Island (1929), set on an Island in the South Pacific, features the discovery of a range of Monsters under the sway of a race of web-footed amphibians. Beast or Man? (1930) combines Lost Race and feral child modes (remotely evoking Tarzan in its beginning ...
Emrys, Ruthanna
(? - ) US author, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Exposure Therapy" in Analog for January-February 2007; it has been assembled with several other stories as Imperfect Commentaries (2019). In her first series, the Near Future Innsmouth Legacy sequence beginning with The Litany of Earth (14 May 2014 Tor.com; 2014 ...
Dr. M
Film (1989). NEF Filmproduktion/Ellepi Film/Cléa Productions. Directed by Claude Chabrol. Written by Sollace Mitchell from a story by Thomas Bauermeister, inspired by Doktor Mabuse, der Spieler (1920; trans Lilian A Clare as Dr. Mabuse, Master of Mystery 1923) by Norbert Jacques (1880-1954). Cast includes Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas and Hanns Zischler. 116 minutes. Colour. / Although in clear homage to Fritz ...
Coulson, Juanita
(1933- ) US author, briefly a schoolteacher, who began publishing sf as by John Jay Wells with "Another Rib" for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in June 1963, a collaboration with Marion Zimmer Bradley (also credited). With her husband, Robert Coulson, she won the 1965 Best Amateur Publication Hugo for their long-running ...
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 ...