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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 ...
Planetes
Japanese animated tv series (2003-2004). Sunrise. Directed by Gorō Taniguchi. Written by Ichirō Ōkouchi and Makoto Yukimura, based on the Manga by Makoto Yukimura. Voice cast includes Ai Orikasa, Kazunari Tanaka, Unshô Ishizuka and Satsuki Yukino. 26 25-minute episodes. Colour. / In 2075 first-world corporations dominate space and the exploitation of its resources. As their ...
Hainsselin, Montague Thomas
(1871-1943) UK naval chaplain and author, in whose Lost World tale, The Island of Maids: A Romance of the Mediterranean (1908), a parthenogenetic society of women (see Women in SF) has inhabited a Mediterranean Island in secret since the time of their ancestors the ancient Greeks. [JC]
Star Wars: X-Wing
Videogame (1993). Totally Games (TG). Designed by Lawrence Holland, Edward Kilham. Platforms: DOS (1993); rev DOS (1994); Mac, Win (1996). / Star Wars: X-Wing is the first in a series of Space Sims set in the Star Wars universe. Written by developers who had previously worked on World War Two aerial conflict simulations, they present space combat as ...
Du Bois, Theodora
(1890-1986) US playwright and author whose first play, The Sleeping Beauty: A Play With or Without Pageantry (1919 chap), is fantasy; except for The Traveling Toys (1934), a Tale of Circulation, her several books for younger children are not listed below. Du Bois remains best known for her many detective novels, often on medical themes, and for several fantasies, including her first novel, The Devil's Spoon ...
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 ...