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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 ...
Eardley-Wilmot, S
(1847-1929) UK author, a minor Eardley-Wilmot, author of two Future War tracts, both set at sea: The Next Naval War (1894) and The Battle of the North Sea in 1914 (1912 chap) as by Searchlight; Britain is involved on both occasions. [JC]
Hession, Rónán
(1975- ) Irish musician and author, who has performed from around 2003 in the former capacity as by Mumblin' Deaf Ro. His first novels, Leonard and Hungry Pat (2019) and Panenka (2021), are nonfantastic. His third, Ghost Mountain (2024), features the sudden irruption into the middle of a small town of a sizeable mountain, an event which seems also to have occurred elsewhere. The characters in the tale treat this inexplicable event ...
Berryman, John
(1916-1988) US author and economist who was chief executive officer of a hardware wholesale company; author of some two dozen stories, beginning with "Special Flight" in Astounding for May 1939 and ending with "The Big Dish" (November 1986 Analog). His most anthologized story is "BEROM" (January 1951 Astounding), in which initially incomprehensible visiting Aliens prove to be speaking in a UK ...
Fly, The
1. Film (1958). Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Kurt Neumann. Written by James Clavell, based on "The Fly" (June 1957 Playboy) by George Langelaan. Cast includes Al (David) Hedison, Patricia Owens and Vincent Price. 94 minutes. Colour. / A Scientist experimenting with Matter Transmission accidentally gets mixed with a fly and ends up with ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...