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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 ...
Scott, Allan
(1952-2023) UK author of half-Danish ancestry, who after both editing and writing for the Oxford University SF Group's Amateur Magazine SFinx in the early 1970s – his first appearance in that venue being "The Forbidden Land" (October 1970 SFinx #3) – began professionally publishing work of genre interest with "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" in Peter Davison's Book of Alien Monsters (anth ...
Delap's F & SF Review
US critical Magazine (1975-1978) edited by Richard Delap and published in California by Frederick Patten. 30 issues. Begun in April 1975, Delap's F & SF Review was a monthly magazine devoted to reviews of new (or newly reprinted) American fantasy and sf books; it also contained a full listing of each month's US publications. It was one of a number of such magazines to appear, aimed primarily at libraries, but was ...
Couvreur, André
(1863-1944) French medical doctor and author who used his professional knowledge in the creation of the Caresco sequence – comprising Le Mal Nécessaire (1899; trans Brian Stableford as The Necessary Evil 2014) and Caresco surhomme; ou le Voyage en Eucrasie (1904; trans Brian Stableford as Caresco, Superman 2014) – whose protagonist, ...
Mills, J M A
(1894-1986) UK author of two novels of the occult, The Tomb of the Dark Ones (1937) and Lords of the Earth (1940), the second being of some sf interest for its sourcing of ancient knowledge and the secret of Immortality in Atlantis. [JC]
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 ...