Flynn, John L
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1954- ) US academic and author, mostly of nonfiction studies in sf Cinema, including Dissecting Aliens: Terror in Space (1995), on the Alien sequence of films, and War of the Worlds: From Wells to Spielberg (2005). Short fiction has been assembled in Visions in Light and Shadow (coll 2001); in his awkward first novel, The Jovian Dilemma (2006), a corrupt politician from Earth, sent to Jupiter to oversee the exploitation of desperately needed energy sources, is faced with the dilemmas of First Contact. Most but not all of Flynn's work seems to have been self-published. [JC]
John L Flynn
born Chicago, Illinois: 6 September 1954
works
- Visions in Light and Shadow (Towson, Maryland: Brickhouse Books, 2001) [coll: pb/]
- The Jovian Dilemma (Owings Mills, Maryland: Galactic Books, 2006) [pb/]
nonfiction
- Future Threads: Costume Design for the Science-Fiction World (Studio City, California: New Media, 1985) [nonfiction: chap: pb/]
- Cinematic Vampires: The Living Dead on Film and Television, from The Devil's Castle (1896) to Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 1992) [nonfiction: Vampires: hb/]
- Dissecting Aliens: Terror in Space (London: Pan Macmillan, 1995) [nonfiction: pb/]
- War of the Worlds: from Wells to Spielberg (Owings Mills, Maryland: Galactic Books, 2005) [nonfiction: pb/]
- Phantoms of the Opera: The Face Behind the Mask (Owings Mills, Maryland: Galactic Books, 2005) [nonfiction: pb/]
- Future Prime: The Top Ten Science Fiction Films (Owings Mills, Maryland: Galactic Books, 2006) with Bob Blackwood [nonfiction: pb/]
- 75 Years of Universal Monsters (Owings Mills, Maryland: Galactic Books, 2006) [nonfiction: pb/]
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