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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 ...
De Marco, Guy Anthony
(1963- ) US author, most of whose work has been horror; after several nonfantastic stories, he began to publish work of genre interest with "Streetwalker" in Serpentarius for 2008. Such short fiction is assembled in Absolute Truths & Outright Lies (coll 2011) and other similar titles. He is of greatest sf interest for the first (all yet published) volume of the Interface Zero sequence, Solar Singularity ...
Lagrange Point
Item of scientific Terminology denoting each of the five locations in a two-body orbital arrangement where under the influence of Gravity alone a third, smaller body can remain in orbit with respect to the first two. These Lagrange or Lagrangian Points are named for the French mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736-1813), whose 1772 essay on what is generally called the three-body problem extended the earlier work of his mentor ...
Daniels, Norman A
The main pseudonym of US Pulp author Norman A Danberg (1905-1995), who was extremely prolific from about 1931 in a wide range of magazines, concentrating on detective thrillers under various names, including John L Benton, the House Name Will Garth, Frank Johnson, the house name Kenneth Robeson and C K M Scanlon. As Wallace Brooker he wrote the ...
LaMaster, Slater
(1890-1936) US playwright and author whose Cupid Napoleon (7-28 January 1928 Argosy All-Story Weekly as "Luckett of the Moon"; 1934) purports to be a Planetary Romance but turns out to be a hoax perpetrated by Napoleon Bonaparte Luckett in the Near Future; the intended Satirical effects of the tale are seriously jumbled. ...
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 ...