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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 ...
Levinson, Leonard
(1935- ) US author of sf novels under other names: contributions to the Butler series of Sex-charged Technothrillers beginning with Killer Satellites (1980) under the House Name Philip Kirk; and The Camp (1977) as by Jonathan Trask. [JC]
Swycaffer, Jefferson P
(1956- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "At the Sign of the Brass Breast" (in Swords Against Darkness IV, anth 1979, edited by Andrew J Offutt), though in his full length work he focused almost exclusively of Ties, including the Concordat sequence, beginning with Not in our Stars (1984) and ending with The Praesidium of Archive (1985), ...
Coulson, Juanita
(1933- ) US author, briefly a schoolteacher, who began publishing sf as by John Jay Wells with "Another Rib" for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in June 1963, a collaboration with Marion Zimmer Bradley (also credited). With her husband, Robert Coulson, she won the 1965 Best Amateur Publication Hugo for their long-running ...
Bessière, Richard
(1923-2011) French author of much sf, initially as F Richard-Bessière, then as Richard-Bessière, finally under his name properly spelled; and spy thrillers as by F-H Ribes. Series of works not yet translated – little of his work has appeared in English – include the Conquérants de l'Universe ["Conquerors of the Universe"] a Fantastic Voyage sequence of Space Operas, beginning with ...
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 ...