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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 ...
Rogers-Davidson, Sally
(1960- ) Australian author of Young Adult fiction, two titles being of sf interest: Polymer (1995), a Space Opera involving a galaxy-wide War; and Spare Parts (1999), set in a Dystopian Melbourne a century hence, where a rigid caste system encourages the poor to sell their bodies to the rich for purposes of ...
Wylwynne, Kythe
Pseudonym of UK journalist and author M E F Hyland (? -? ) whose Lost Race tale, The Dream-Woman: A Tale (1901), employs fantasy-like dreams to convey the nature of life Under the Sea in a recently discovered ancient City. Hyland was female. [JC]
Hellsing
Japanese animated tv series (2001-2002); original title Herushingu. Based on the Manga by Kouta Hirano. Gonzo. Directed by Umanosuke Iida. Written by Chiaki J. Konaka. Voice cast includes Jouji Nakata, Nachi Nozawa, Fumiko Orikasa, Yoshiko Sakakibara and Takumi Yamazaki. 13 23 minute episodes. Colour. / There have always been Vampires, but contemporary Britain is plagued by a new kind. Battling ...
Gretta, J Clemens
Working name of US illustrator Joseph Clemens Gretter (1904-1988); he began signing his work simply as "Gretta" in the early 1930s. He illustrated many volumes for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, mostly for nonfantastic series like The Hardy Boys and the X Bar X Boys, though occasionally he did sf covers, like that for Castaways of the Stratosphere; Or, Hunting the Vanished Balloonists (1935) as by Franklin W ...
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 ...