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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 ...
Tank Girl: The Movie
Film (1995). United Artists Pictures presents a Trilogy Entertainment Group production. Directed by Rachel Talalay. Written by Tedi Sarafian, based on the Comic strip Tank Girl (1988-1995) in Deadline magazine, created by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin and originally drawn by Hewlett. Cast includes Ann Magnuson, Malcolm McDowell, Lori Petty, Iggy Pop, Stacy Linn Ramsower, Ice-T and Naomi Watts. 104 minutes. Colour. / A tank-riding female ...
Cato, Beth
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Brains for Breakfast" in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Presents Flush Fiction: 88 Short-Short Stories You Can Read in a Single Sitting (anth 2009) edited by the Editors of the Bathroom Readers' Institute. Her first series, the Clockwork Dagger sequence beginning with The Clockwork Dagger (2014), follows its young female protagonist through a ...
Sarti, Ron
(? - ) US academic and author of The Chronicles of Scar sequence, comprising The Chronicles of Scar (1996), Legacy of the Ancients (1997) and The Lanterns of God (1998); set in a balkanized Ruined Earth version of America, the tale is constructed along lines familiar in contemporary fantasy, for the young protagonist, the eponymous Scar, is a Hidden Monarch (see The ...
Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster
Film (1965; vt Mars Invades Puerto Rico; vt Duel of the Space Monsters). Vernon-Seleca Films. Directed by Robert Gaffney. Written by R H W Dillard, George Garrett and John Rodenbeck. Cast includes Lou Cutell, Marilyn Hanold, James Karen, Nancy Marshall and Robert Reilley. 79 minutes. Black and white. / After a ruinous atomic war on Mars, a few survivors led by Princess Marcuzan (Hanold) and her assistant Dr ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...