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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 ...
Anderson, Timothy J
(1958- ) Canadian editor, playwright and author, married to Candas Jane Dorsey; he is a member of Books Collective in Edmonton, Alberta, which publishes Tesseract Books, one of the central publishers of Canadian sf (see Canada, English). His first sf novel, Resisting Adonis (2001), is an erotic thriller (see Sex). [JC]
Wetanson, Burt
Working name of US screenwriter and author Burton R Wetanson (1934- ), who collaborated with Thomas Hoobler (who see for details) on the Hunters sequence comprising The Hunters (1978) and The Treasure Hunters (1983). [JC]
Earth vs the Spider
Film (1958; vt The Spider). American International Pictures. Produced and directed by Bert I Gordon. Written by László Görög and George Worthing Yates from an original story by Gordon. Cast includes Ed Kemmer, June Kenney, Eugene Persson (credited as Gene Persson) and Gene Roth. 73 minutes. Black and white. / As the film starts Jack Flynn (Merritt Stone), father of ...
Trail of Cthulhu
Role Playing Game (2008). Pelgrane Press. Designed by Kenneth Hite, Robin D Laws. / As the Role Playing Game Call of Cthulhu, based on the Cthulhu Mythos, was named after H P Lovecraft's short story "The Call of Cthulhu" (February 1928 ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...