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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 ...
Wei Yahua
(1949- ) Chinese journalist, television pundit and author, who smuggled Soft Sciences and Satire into the Hard SF realm in China, particularly in several "robot/women" tales that allegorize Gender issues. / Wo Jueding yu Jiqiren Qizi Lihun ["I Decide to Divorce My Robot Wife"] (January 1981 Beijing Wenxue; fixup ...
Sherrow, C G
(? - ) US author in whose sf novel, Goorg-Chee: A Sci-Fi Quest for Freedom (2003), a human being awakens in a state of Amnesia, along with a number of beings who represent a range of Alien species; some sort of Godgame has clearly commenced. It may be that these various species are being tested for fitness. [JC]
Timeslip [tv]
UK tv series (1970-1971). Associated Television (ATV). Created by James Boswell and Ruth Boswell. Produced by John Cooper. Directed primarily by Peter Jefferies, with John Cooper, David Foster and Ron Francis. Written by James Boswell, Ruth Boswell, Victor Pemberton and Bruce Stewart (19 episodes). Cast included Spencer Banks, Derek Benfield, Cheryl Burfield, Iain Fairbairn, Mary Preston, Denis Quilley and Iris ...
Marlow, John Robert
(? - ) US author of Nano (2004), a Technothriller set in a Near Future where a Nanotechnology breakthrough is opposed by the American government, which leashes its own "nannites" against its presumed enemies; unfortunately, these nano-Weapons have not been programmed to stop; the world is, therefore, threatened. ...
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 ...