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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 ...
Xia Jia
Pen-name of Wang Yao (1984- ), a Chinese author who trained initially as a physicist, before drifting into the humanities as a postgraduate. Her short stories have attracted critical acclaim from the outset, beginning with her early Yinhe Award recipient "Guan Yaojing de Pingzi" (April 2004 Kehuan Shijie trans Linda Rui Feng as "The Demon-Enslaving Flask" November 2012 ...
Athey, Henry
(? -? ) US author of an sf novel, With Gyves of Gold: A Novel (1898) with A Herbert Bowers, both writers remaining untraced, though both may have been based in Missouri. A young man, experimented upon by a modestly Mad Scientist, develops the paranormal ability to travel by astral means to another planet, where he observes the operation of a Utopia ...
Müller-Holm, Ernst
(1861-1927) Swedish-born author, in Germany from an early age, whose Ein Rückblick aus dem Jahre 2037 auf das Jahr 2000: Aus den Erinnerungen des Herrn Julian West (1891; trans anon as My Afterdream: A Sequel to the Late Mr. Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward 1900) as by Julian West is a stridently negative response to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888), which is depicted as a whitewash over socialist ...
Kdo Chce Zabít Jessii
Film (1965; vt Who Would Kill Jessie?). Filmové studio Barrandov. Directed by Miloš Macourek, Václav Vorlíček. Written by Macourek, Vorlíček. Cast includes Karel Effa, Dana Medřická, Olga Schoberová, Jiří Sovák and Juraj Višný. 80 minutes. Black and white. / This very funny Czechoslovak film was conceived for children, but the makers realized that the idea had satirical potential. ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...