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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 ...
DEINDE
Performance (2012). Written by August Schulenberg, directed by Heather Cohn, produced by Flux Theatre Ensemble, featuring Rachael Hip-Flores, David Ian Lee, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Nitya Vidyasagar, and Ken Glickfield. Scenic design by Will Lowry. Lighting by Kia Rogers. / DEINDE was an original play by August Schulenberg featuring the ideas and dangers possible in quantum computing (see Quantum Computers). The play premiered at the Secret ...
Perry, Roger
Pseudonym of UK author Roger William Cowern (1928- ), author of three undemanding Space Operas for Robert Hale Limited: Senior Citizen (1979), The Making of Jason (1980) and Esper's War (1981). [JC]
Wexler, Robert Freeman
(1961- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Suspension" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet for June 2001, which was later assembled in his first collection, Psychological Methods to Sell Should Be Destroyed (coll 2008). Its multiple transactions with the generic agencies of Fantastika have been described as surreal, but might be as fittingly thought ...
Chaplin, W N
(1892-1981) UK author of a Lost Race novel, The Pagan City (1938), in which an intact Roman civilization is discovered Underground beneath the Sahara desert. Perhaps because of its conception late in the life of the Lost Race subgenre, Chaplin seems to have taken the opportunity to describe this civilization as a Dystopia, with an emphasis on the evils of ...
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 ...