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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 ...
Lincoln, Maurice
Pseudonym of UK author Esmond Condy (1887-1962), whose two sf Satires display an uneasy bantering tone and slyly cluttered plots which make his or her identification of some potential interest. In Nothing Ever Happens (1927) two young UK men are transported to an unlocatable Island run by an impossibly old Master – it is conceivable that T H White's similar The Master (1957) ...
President's Analyst, The
Film (1967). Panpiper/Paramount. Written and directed by Theodore J Flicker. Cast includes Godfrey Cambridge, James Coburn, Severn Darden, Joan Delaney, Pat Harrington and Barry McGuire. 104 minutes. Colour. / A psychoanalyst (Coburn), hired to listen to the President's troubles, breaks down under the strain. He takes refuge with a "typical" US family who describe themselves as "militant liberals" (the husband collects guns, the wife takes karate lessons and their son specializes in ...
Lynch, Bohun
(1884-1928) UK amateur boxer, caricaturist and author whose early nonfantastic novel, The Tender Conscience (1919), recounts the traumatic experiences of a young man returned from active service in World War One. His one novel of sf interest is Menace from the Moon (1925), a Scientific Romance which rather casually blends Alien Invasion ...
Rhoades, Walter
(1860-1927) UK author of The Hidden City: A Story of Central America (1907), a Lost World tale for boys set in Central America. Rhoades wrote a number of other novels aimed at boys. [JC]
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 ...