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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 ...
Final Programme, The
Film (1973; vt The Last Days of Man on Earth). Goodtimes Enterprises/Gladiole Films/MGM-EMI. Directed by Robert Fuest. Written by Fuest, based on The Final Programme (August and December 1965, March 1966 New Worlds; 1968) by Michael Moorcock. Cast includes Harry Andrews, Julie Ege, Jon Finch, Hugh Griffith, Sterling Hayden, Patrick Magee, Derrick O'Connor and Jenny Runacre. 89 minutes. Colour. / ...
Raspe, Rudolf Erich
(1737-1794) German-born propagandist, amateur geologist, cataloguer, flim-flam artist, translator and author, in the UK from 1775. His career was harum-scarum; though he edited the posthumous papers of Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) as Oeuvres philosophiques latines et francoises de feu Mr de Leibniz (1765), and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1769, he was more than once in deep financial trouble (the Royal Society ejected him in 1775) and narrowly escaped ...
Fabi, Mark
(1955- ) US author of Wyrm (1998), a Near Future tale in which, as the Millennium approaches, apprehension grows about a worldwide Computer virus (or worm/wyrm) which may gird the planet dragon-like once unleashed; the protagonist scours Virtual Reality worlds, playing Games there, in search of the potential ...
Tumannost' Andromedy
Film (1968; vt The Andromeda Nebula; vt Andromeda the Mysterious; vt The Cloud of Andromeda). Dovzhenko Studio. Directed by Eugene Sherstobytov. Written by Sherstobytov, Vladimir Dmitrievski, based on Tumannost' Andromedy (1958) by Ivan Yefremov. Cast includes Viya Artmane, Nikolai Kriukov and Sergei Stoliarov. 85 minutes, cut to 77 minutes. Colour. / A disappointingly polemical Russian adaptation of Yefremov's much ...
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 ...