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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 ...
North, Emet
(? - ) US translator and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Real Animals" in Lightspeed for June 2020. His first novel, In Universes (fixup 2024), follows its protagonist Raffi in a Fantastic Voyage through various versions of the Multiverse in a search for satisfactory iterations and/or ...
Gold, H L
(1914-1996) Canadian-born author and editor, in the USA from the age of two, though retaining dual nationality; brother of Floyd C Gale. Gold began to publish work of genre interest with "Inflexure" for Astounding in October 1934 as by Clyde Crane Campbell, selling several stories to that market, and to its sister Unknown, notably None But Lucifer (September 1939 Unknown; ...
Smith, Greg Leitich
(? - ) US author of books for children and the Young Adult market, beginning with the nonfantastic Ninjas, Piranhas, and Galileo (2003). Of sf interest are Chronal Engine (2012), which features a Time Machine in the protagonists' grandfather's basement, through which abductions have occurred, leading young Max, Emma and Kyle into ...
McGarry, Mark J
(1958- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Acts of Love" (in The Edge of Space, anth 1979, ed Robert Silverberg), whose two novels are Sun Dogs (1981), in which humans and Aliens come to blows over rights over a valuable planet (see Colonization of Other Worlds), and Blank Slate (1984), in ...
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 ...