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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 ...
Reilly, Matthew
(1974- ) Australian author, resident for some years in the USA, most of his work being thrillers in which secret histories of the world are treated in a manner Equipoisal between sf and the occult. His first novel, Contest (1996; rev 2003), is a Godgame tale: with others, the protagonist is Teleported into a maze-like Library by ...
Walker, Jerry
(? -? ) US author of the Lawrence Marley Sequence of Near Future thrillers comprising Mission Accomplished: A Novel of 1950 (1947) and A Date with Destiny (1949); Colonel Marley, chief of an American counter-intelligence unit, defends his native land from foreign intrigues as the Cold War begins to intensify and World War Three ...
Donis, Miles
(1936-1979) US author whose The Fall of New York (1971), set in a Near Future Dystopian New York, moves from horrific representations of the cost of chaos into an Absurdist climax, as the consequences of the departure of all adults from America bear down upon the "victorious" young. [JC]
Fungies!, The
US animated tv series (2020-current). Cartoon Network Studios. Created by Stephen P Neary. Supervising Director Nick Edwards. Writers include Jonathan Feria-Moreno, Mark Galez, Stephen P Neary and Kyle Neswald. Voice cast includes Tama Brutsche, Jennifer Coolidge, Stephen P Neary and Harry Teitelman. 40 eleven-minute episodes. Colour. / The show is set during the age of the Dinosaurs and concerns a civilization of fungus people who are vaguely humanoid ...
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 ...