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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 ...
Full Spectrum
US Original-Anthology series published by Bantam Books since 1988, created by Lou Aronica, five issues: Full Spectrum (anth 1988), edited by Aronica with Shawna McCarthy; Full Spectrum 2 (anth 1989), edited by Aronica with Pat LoBrutto, McCarthy and Amy Stout, Full Spectrum 3 (anth ...
Misfits of Science
US tv series (1985-1986). James D Parriott Productions/Universal Television. Created by Tim Kring, Parriott. Produced by Morrie Ruvinsksy, Harry Longstreet, Renee Longstreet. Cast includes Courtney Cox, Kevin Peter Hall, Dean Paul Martin and Mark Thomas Miller. One pilot film plus sixteen fifty-minute episodes. Colour. / In this short-lived series, several young people are brought together by a government-sponsored scientific think tank called Humanidyne to form a ...
Sabikui Bisco
Japanese Anime tv series (2022; vt Rust-Eater Bisco). Oz. Based on the Light Novel by Shinji Cobkubo. Directed by Atsushi Itagaki. Written by Sadayuki Murai. Voice cast includes Natsuki Hanae, Reina Kondō, Shirō Saitō, Ryōta Suzuki, Miyu Tomita and Kenjiro Tsuda. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / After an explosion leaves Tokyo a crater surrounded by ruins and desert (see ...
de Lamothe-Langon, Étienne-Léon
(1786-1864) French man of letters, politician, playwright and author, prolific from the turn of the century until his retirement in 1844. Much of his later work is Gothic Fantasy; he is of some sf interest for La Vampire ou la Vierge de Hongrie (1825; trans Brian Stableford as The Virgin Vampire 2011) as by Le B, which features a female Vampire who is not, in this case, a ...
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 ...