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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 ...
Dantec, Maurice G
(1959-2016) French author, in Canada from 1999; of his several gonzo sf novels, most of which have aroused interest and ire in France for their inflammatory (but not orthodox) right-wing polemics, Babylon Babies (1999; trans Noura Wedell 2005) begins in Technothriller mode with a moderately prescient vision of the Middle East and adjacent Asia as the diseased focus of early twenty-first-century wars, but moves into ...
Michels, Christine
(1957- ) Canadian author of several romantic Space Operas. To Share a Sunset (1990) with Bernice Carstensen (? - ), writing together as Sharice Kendyl, is a Planetary Romance set on a planet whose habitable portions are threatened by a great Wastelands, which the protagonists must cross while becoming involved with one another. ...
Potts, Stephen W
(1949- ) US author and critic who began to publish work of genre interest with "Mare Somniorum" in New Dimensions 10 (anth 1980) edited by Robert Silverberg, his only published sf story. His book-length criticism includes studies of Arkady and Boris Strugatski in The Second Marxian Invasion: The Fiction of the Strugatsky Brothers (1991) and of J R R ...
Fletcher, J S
(1863-1935) UK journalist and author of popular fiction, much of it for boys, though he is best known for his detective fiction. The Wonderful City (1894), for instance, carries its youthful protagonist to a Lost World in Western America at the famous Four Corners where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet; unfortunately, the inhabitants' ecologically sound lives count for little when a great volcano erupts. Morrison's Machine ...
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 ...