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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 ...
McGraw, Charles G
(? - ) US author who began writing work of genre interest with "Failure Reaction" for Once Upon a World with Mark A Garland in 1989; also with Garland, he wrote a Tie to the Star Trek universe: Star Trek Voyager #7: Ghost of a Chance (1996). Other works with Garland include an adventure Science Fantasy ...
Lasaitis, Cristina
(1983- ) Brazilian medical doctor, editor and author whose first book, Fábulas do Tempo e da Eternidade ["Fables of Time and Eternity"] (coll 2008), contains strikingly cogent interplays between the SF Megatext and her professional focus on Biology and the neurosciences, most of the tales featuring examinations of the nature of ...
Johnson, Annabel
(1921-2013) US author, mostly of Young Adult novels beginning in 1956, about half of them in collaboration with her husband, Edgar Johnson, who is not to be confused with Edgar Johnson (1901-1972), an earlier novelist. Of sf interest, all written with Johnson, are An Alien Music (1982); The Danger Quotient (1984), set initially in a Ruined Earth 130 years after ...
Case, Josephine Young
(1907-1990) US educator, administrator and author of a remarkable book-length sf poem, At Midnight on the 31st of March (1938), set in a New England village suddenly barred by an unidentified Disaster from any egress into the surrounding country, and shifted through a Timeslip into an uninhabited America, where it must rely upon its own closely observed resources. What seemed, on its 1990 republication, to read as tocsin ...
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 ...