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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 ...
Lichtenberger, André
(1870-1940) French editor, politician and author. Of his several works of fantasy or sf, Les Centaures, roman fantastique (Paris: Calman-Lévy, 1904) and Pickles, ou récits à la mode anglaise ["Pickles; Or, Stories in the English Style"] (coll 1923), have been assembled as The Centaurs and Other Stories (omni trans Brian Stableford 2013). The title novel is a prehistoric fantasy about the ...
Sparks, Cat
(1965- ) Australian publisher, editor, illustrator and author, most of whose early fiction – which she began publishing with "The Invasion of the Latte Snatcher" in Mitch?: Tales of the New Millennium (anth 2001) edited by Anthony Mitchell as Mitch? – is horror. She has won several Ditmar Awards for short fiction and for her publishing and editing work. Agog! Press, founded in 2002 with her husband, horror author ...
Smith, Mary C
(? - ) US-born author, resident in Nigeria, whose sf novel, The Undesirables (1998), is set in an ostensible distant Near Future plebiscitary democracy which – along lines soon to become almost mandatory in the sf literature – turns out to be a Dystopia whose undesirables, defined on Eugenic lines, live in ...
Garnier, Jean-Paul L
(1981- ) US editor, poet and author of mostly speculative fiction who also publishes as Jean-Paul Garnier. He is best known as the editor of Star*Line, the official print journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (now the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association). His editorship, beginning in 2021, has been marked by consistency and dedication. Dozens of poems ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...