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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 ...
Khanna, Rajan
(1974- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Furies" in Shimmer for Autumn 2007. He is of interest for the Ben Gold sequence, comprising Falling Sky (2014) and Rising Tide (2015), set in a Near Future Dystopian world savagely depopulated by what was almost certainly an engineered virus-based ...
Niccol, Andrew
(1964- ) New Zealand filmmaker who migrated to London in the mid-eighties, where he directed television commercials before moving to Hollywood in the nineties to write and direct feature films. After being bought out of his contract to direct his spec screenplay The Truman Show (1998) in favour of veteran Australian director Peter Weir, he made his debut as writer-director with the stylish ...
Nichols, Dawson
(? - ) US playwright and author, active in the first capacity from around 2000; none of his plays, though they tend to engage in Pirandelloesque plays between actors and author (see Luigi Pirandello), do more than make reference to the engines of Fantastika [they are not listed below]. His first novel, Terminal Dispatch (2022), follows the attempts of its protagonist and his ...
Long, Doug
(? - ) Canadian author of Fireball (1977) with Vic Mayhew, in which an Asteroid is discovered to be on target to hit Earth, causing a planetary Disaster. [JC]
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 ...