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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 ...
Nebo Zovyot
Film (1959; vt The Sky Calls; vt The Heavens Call). A P Dovzenko Filmstudio. Directed by Mikhail Karzhukov and Aleksandr Kozyr. Written by Mikhail Karzhukov, Yevgeni Pomeshchikov, and Aleksei Sazanov. Cast includes Konstantin Bartashevich, V Chernyak, S Filimonov, Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin and Gurgen Tonuuts. 120 minutes. Drastically cut with added footage as Battle Beyond the Sun (1962). / This unheralded masterpiece of the ...
Siegel, Jerry
(1914-1996) US author and sf fan who in late 1929 or early 1930 founded and issued what may have been the first sf Fanzine or proto-Amateur Magazine (which see), Cosmic Stories; of the typewritten carbon copies circulated among friends in Cleveland, Ohio, none is known to have survived and its historical status is uncertain. In October 1932, with the illustrator Joe Shuster (1914-1992), he issued the unquestionable ...
Williams, Thad W
(? -? ) US real estate dealer (in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin), doctor (apparently medical) and author of a Lost Race tale, In Quest of Life; Or, the Revelations of the Wiyatatao of Zipantl: The Last High Priest of the Aztecs (1898), which depicts a civilization of Toltecs which practices human sacrifice, the exudate from victims melding with mysterious Underground waters to create an ...
Dold, Douglas
(1888-1931) US editor and author, elder brother of Elliott Dold, with whom in 1915 he joined the Serbian army. As a result of injuries sustained in combat, he gradually became blind, but this affliction did not prevent him from editing The Danger Trail magazine, presiding over Clues, Incorporated (which published Clues: A Magazine of Detective Stories), or publishing several borderline sf/adventure tales. The last of these appears to have been ...
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 ...