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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 ...
Odell, Samuel W
(1864-1948) US lawyer and author of two sf books, Atlanteans; Adam Lore's Choice: Stories for Young Men (coll 1889) and The Last War; Or, The Triumph of the English Tongue [for full title see Checklist] (1898). In the latter, a Future-War story set in the twenty-sixth century, the highly civilized all-White Allied Anglo-American Nations decide, more in sorrow, to engage in "war to the end" against a miscegenate evil empire controlled ...
Hearne, Kevin
(1970- ) US author almost all of whose work has been fantasy and supernatural fiction, like the extensive Iron Druid Chronicles beginning with Hounded (2011), which features the sometimes picaresque adventures of a Shapeshifting next-to-Immortal druid in Arizona; Vampires and Nordic deities complicate his life. The Oberon's Meaty Mysteries sequence ...
Coles, Bennett R
(? - ) Canadian military officer, entrepreneur and author whose War sequence of Space Opera adventures beginning with Virtues of War (2015) puts a young un-battle-tested woman in command of some hardened troops in an expanding conflict. The arena is galaxy-wide. Terra is threatened but expansionist. [JC]
Day Mars Invaded Earth, The
Film (1962). API/Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Maury Dexter. Written by Harry Spalding. Cast includes Betty Beall, Lowell Brown, William Mims, Gregg Shank, Kent Taylor and Marie Windsor. 70 minutes. Black and white. / Scientist David Fielding (Taylor), with the help of associate Web Spenser (Mims), has overseen the pioneering landing of the first unmanned probe on Mars, which emitted a strange radio beam before becoming ...
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 ...