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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 ...
Trenholm, Hayden
(circa 1955- ) Canadian teacher, publisher, playwright and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Red Tide" (in Tesseracts6, anth 1997, edited by Carolyn Clink and Robert J Sawyer); he won Aurora Awards (see Awards) for "Like Water in the Desert" (August 2007 Challenging Destiny) and for "The Burden of Fire" (June 2010 Neo-Opsus Science Fiction Magazine). ...
NESFA Press
NESFA Press is the publishing division of NESFA, the long-established New England Science Fiction Association, Inc. This major US Small Press publishes work in three main categories. First came reference works and Bibliographies, beginning with such indexes as The NESFA Index to the Science Fiction Magazines and Original Anthologies, 1966 (1969) compiled by Anthony R ...
Douglas, Iain
(? - ) UK author of whom nothing is known beyond his authorship of four sf adventures for Robert Hale Limited, beginning with Point of Impact (1979). [JC]
Greenberg, Rosalind M
(1951- ) US author and editor who began to publish work of genre interest with "Namesake" as by Elizabeth Morton in The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (anth 1981) edited by Martin H Greenberg, Barry N Malzberg and Bill Pronzini; she also published short fiction as by Rosalind Straley. She is best known for co-editing seven ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...