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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 ...
Gerard, Francis
(1905-1966) UK author born Francis Edward Marie Gerard (surname was sometimes spelled Gérard; he dropped the Marie in adult life), in South Africa after World War Two. Most of his works are thrillers, some of them continuations of Edgar Wallace's nonfantastic Sanders of the Rivers tales; several of them featuring Sir John Meredith, an eminent Occult Detective [see The ...
Gheusi, Pierre-Barthélmy
(1865-1943) French editor, playwright, theatrical director and author, who often gave his name as P-B Gheusi; many of his opera librettos contain elements of fantasy, though no sf. For the Atlantis fantasy Les Atlantes, aventures des temps légendaires (portions in feuilleton form 1904 La Nouvelle Revue; 1905; trans Brian Stableford as The Last Days of Atlantis 2015) with ...
Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
Japanese live-action tv series (1975-1977; vt Five Rangers; vt Star Rangers; vt Secret Battleteam Five-Ranger). Created by Shotaro Ishinomori. Toei Company. Directors include Katsuhiko Taguchi, Koichi Takemoto and Minoru Yamada. Writers include Hirohisa Soda, Susumu Takaku and Shozo Uehara. Voice cast includes Mitsuo Andō, Baku Hatakeyama, Hiroshi Miyauchi, Yukio Itō, Lisa Komaki, Naoya Makoto ...
Swallow, James
(1969- ) UK scriptwriter and author, most of whose books are Ties to various Television series. His first series, however – the Sundowners sequence beginning with Ghost Town (2001) and set in a Steampunk-like mythical West threatened by a supernatural evil from deep Underground – is not tied. Swallow may be best known for ...
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 ...