SF Encyclopedia Home Page
Monday 20 January 2025
Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Fourth Edition. Some sample entries appear below. Click here for the Introduction; here for the masthead; here for Acknowledgments; here for the FAQ; here for advice on citations. Find entries via the search box above (more details here) or browse the menu categories in the grey bar at the top of this page.
Site updated on 17 January 2025
Sponsor of the day: Janine G Stinson
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 ...
Lady and the Monster, The
Film (1944). Republic Pictures. Produced and directed by George Sherman. Written by Dane Lussier, Frederick Kohner, based on Donovan's Brain (1943) by Curt Siodmak. Cast includes Richard Arlen, Sidney Blackmer, Vera Ralston and Erich von Stroheim. 86 minutes. Black and white. / This is the first of the three film versions of Siodmak's novel; the others are Donovan's Brain (1953) and ...
Congress, The
French-Israeli live action/animated film (2013). Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Pandora Film. Directed and written by Ari Folman, based on Stanisław Lem's "Kongres Futurologiczny" (in Bezsenność, coll 1971; trans as The Futurological Congress 1974). Cast includes Danny Huston and Robin Wright. 122 minutes. Colour. / Miramount Studios has developed the Technology to scan bodies and ...
Uchūdaikaijū Girara
Film (1967; vt The X from Outer Space). Shôchiku Eiga. Directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu. Written by Moriyoshi Ishida, Eibi Motomochi, Kazui Nihonmatsu. Cast includes Mike Daneen, Peggy Neal, Keisuke Sonoi, Toshiya Wazaki and Shinichi Yanagisawa. 89 minutes. Colour. / Four astronauts – Captain Sano (Wazaki), biologist Lisa (Neal), Dr Shioda (Sonoi), and communications officer Miyamoto (Yanagisawa) – are sent on a flight to Mars to ...
Gresh, Danny
(1989- ) From the age of ten, Danny Gresh collaborated with his mother Lois H Gresh on the Young Adult Chuck Farris books, Chuck Farris and the Tower of Darkness (2001), Chuck Farris and the Labyrinth of Doom (2001), and Chuck Farris and the Cosmic Storm (2002), all centred on PlayStation2 Videogames. He has also collaborated with Lois ...
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 ...