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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 ...
Schinagel, Géza
(1893-1967) US scientist and author whose brief, lightly fictionalized Possibilities (1930) investigates the Near Future and describes Utopian advances in science and Technology. [JC]
Eight Legged Freaks
Film (2002). Warner Brothers Pictures presents in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment an Electric Entertainment Production. Directed by Ellory Elkayem. Produced by Dean Devlin and Bruce Berman. Written by Jesse Alexander, Ellory Elkayem from a story by Elkayem and Randy Kornfield. Cast includes David Arquette, Doug E Doug, Scarlett Johansson, Scott Terra and Kari Wuhrer. 99 minutes. Colour. / This likeable Monster Movie ...
Ennes, Hiron
(? - ) US musician and author whose first novel Leech (2022), set in the distant Near Future, in a fastness (see Zone) known as the Interprovincial Medical Institute, nerve centre for a kind of distributed Hive Mind comprised of the world's remaining medical doctors, whose/its primary mission is to protect Homo sapiens from the ...
Algernon
Norwegian Fanzine; 40 issues published 1974-1998 by the Oslo Students' SF Club, Aniara – the name taken from Harry Martinson's poem Aniara (1956) – whose founding editor was Øystein Sørensen. Published 3-4 times a year until 1979; more irregular during the 1980s; guest editors 1989-1991, then edited regularly by Cirstyn Bech-Yagher 1991-1998. / Regarded as the ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...