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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 ...
Childerhose, R J Chick
(1928- ) Canadian author whose non-sf books are usually bylined R J Childerhose. His The Man Who Wanted to Save Canada: A Prophetic Novel (1975) plunges a protagonist from Western Canada into Near Future problems with Québécois secessionists and even more complicated intrigues in Washington, District of Columbia. [JC]
Pelton, Guy Cathcart
(1887-1965) Canadian-born author, in the US from 1923; his sf novella, An Atomic Visitor (1946 chap), is about an Alien from Venus who comes to Earth, and leaves. [JC]
Cole, Allan
(1943-2019) US Television scriptwriter – with more than 100 credits to his name – journalist and author; his sf screenwriting includes three episodes of the series The Incredible Hulk (1977-1982), two of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979-1981) and six of Defenders of the Earth ...
Valley of the Dinosaurs
US animated tv series (1974). Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS-TV. Created by William Hanna. Executive producers: Hanna and Joe Barbera. Creative Producer: Iwo Takamoto. Directed by Charles A Nichols. Writers included Peter Germano, Bernie Kahn, Henry Sharp, and Jerry Thomas. Cast includes Shannon Farnum, Joan Gardner, Allan Oppenheimer, Mike Road and Frank Welker. Sixteen 30-minute episodes. Colour. / Science ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...