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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 ...
Cutter, R H
(? -? ) UK author known only for a Lost Race novel, Reached at Last: A Romance of Nineteenth Century Science Chivalrous Endurance and Perseverance with a Sequel (1886), unusually for this sub-genre set in the Near Future, in which an expedition to the North Pole, travelling in an advanced Airship, comes across a civilized Utopia ...
Miles, Patricia
(1930- ) UK author for children's and Young Adult markets, some of whose work is of sf interest, including The Gods in Winter (1978), an Equipoisal tale whose young protagonists, who live in a scientific research establishment with their parents, witness an incursion of ancient gods; Lowther Hall (1981) and Mind Pirates (1983) share a similar graceful gravity of ...
Gawron, Jean Mark
(1953- ) French-born US academic and author, who researches in and teaches computational linguistics; his first sf novel, An Apology for Rain (1974), traces the travels of a woman in search of her brother through a surreal USA. It was followed by Algorithm (1978), in which complex Linguistic operations are used to structure the responses of a sidelined Earth to the greater galaxy, and the more conventionally ...
Calderón, Gabe
(? - ) Canadian author who identifies as trans, non-binary and Native American. Their first novel, Màgòdiz (2022), is set in a distant Near Future Ruined Earth world; the protagonist of the tale must flee a monstrous entity that or who controls the remnants of Homo sapiens, and with their mate creates stories to sustain their ...
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 ...