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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 ...
Baen, Jim
Working name of US editor and author James Patrick Baen (1943-2006) who began his publishing career in 1972, when he became Gothics editor at Ace Books; in early years, he sometimes signed himself James Baen. He moved to Galaxy Science Fiction in 1973 as managing editor, taking over the editorship in 1974 of both Galaxy and If from Ejler Jakobsson. These magazines were then ...
Hood, Christopher M
(? - ) US teacher and author whose first novel, The Revivalists (2022), set in a Near Future world whose populations have barely survived a flu-like Pandemic escaped from melting permafrost (see Climate Change). Chastened small-scale relics, perhaps ultimately viable, of the old world do persist; but the protagonists, parents of a daughter who ...
Red Magazine, The
UK general fiction magazine published by Amalgamated Press, London; 620 issues, June 1908 to September 1939; editor for most of those years, certainly the ones of sf interest, was John Stock. It appeared monthly until February 1910, twice monthly until 15 March 1918, and again 1 February-1 August 1919, then fortnightly until 9 August 1929. Published on cheap book paper, close enough to pulpwood to be regarded as a Pulp magazine, the initial issues were a slightly ...
Hart, Rob
(1982- ) US publisher and author initially known for his Ash McKenna sequence of crime novels beginning with New Yorked (2015) [series not listed below]. His first sf novel, The Warehouse (2019), is set in a Near Future Dystopian coercive company-town-like Keep called "MotherCloud" whose inmates, under the rule of a megalomaniacal lord of the digital ...
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 ...