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Arthur C Clarke Award
This award has been given since 1987 for the best sf novel whose UK first edition was published during the previous calendar year, and consists of an inscribed bookend and a sum of money from a grant initially donated by Arthur C Clarke. In 2001 the prize money – until then a constant £1000 – was increased to £2001 as a gesture to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); it has since risen by ...
Silent Möbius 2
Japanese animated film (1992). Anime International Company (AIC). Based on the Manga by Kia Asamiya. Directed by Yasunori Ide. Written by Manabu Nakamura. Voice cast includes Toshiko Fujita, Chieko Honda, Naoko Matsui, Maya Okamoto and Hiromi Tsuru. 56 minutes. Colour. / The film explains how Katsumi Liqueur (Matsui) joined AMP, Tokyo's Attack Mystification Police Department: it fills the gap in ...
Gunther, Max
(1927-1998) UK-born author, in US from the age of thirteen; in his Disaster novel, Doom Wind (1986), a passing Comet generates winds of sufficient force to threaten New York. [JC]
Hungerford, Margaret W
(1855-1897) Irish author, active and prolific from about 1877 as a romantic novelist, becoming an author, as frequently the case, in order to support her husband and children; her best known novel is the nonfantastic Molly Bawn (1878), which contains the famous maxim: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". In America she usually published as by The Duchess. Hungerford is of sf interest for The Professor's Experiment (1895 3vols), one of the very last triple-deckers ...
Emms, William
(1930-1993) UK teacher and occasional television scriptwriter responsible (among other work) for "Galaxy Four", a four-part Doctor Who television story in 1965 which does not take place in Galaxy Four. The original script was published as Doctor Who: The Scripts: Galaxy Four (1994), and novelized by Emms as Doctor Who: Galaxy Four (1985); the plot, featuring downed Spaceships and at least two ...
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 ...