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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 ...
Iron Giant, The
Animated film (1999). Warner Bros presents a Brad Bird film. Directed by Brad Bird. Written by Tim McCanlies, from a story by Brad Bird based on The Iron Man (1968; vt The Iron Giant 1968), a prose work by the poet (and British Poet Laureate for fourteen years) Ted Hughes. 87 minutes. Colour. / In 1957, a huge man of iron crashes from space near the small American town of Rockwell, Maine. While searching for metal to ...
Predator 2
Film (1990). Gordon/Silver/Davis/Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Stephen Hopkins. Written by Jim Thomas, John Thomas. Cast includes Maria Conchita Alonso, Ruben Blades, Gary Busey, Danny Glover, Kevin Peter Hall and Bill Paxton. 107 minutes. Colour. / This superior sequel to Predator is a well-oiled adrenaline machine. Los Angeles (see California) in 1997 is anarchic, with Jamaican and Colombian drug gangs, the LA police ...
My Adventures with Superman
US animated tv series (2023-current). Warner Bros. Animation, DC Studios, Studio Mir. Based on the DC Comics characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Series developed by Jake Wyatt. Directed by Jen Bennett, Diana Huh and Christina Manrique. Writers include Aman Adumer, Josie Campbell, Brendan Clogher and Cynthia Furey. Voice cast includes Darrell Brown, David Errigo Jr, Zehra Fazal, Joel de la Fuente, Jake Green, ...
Legend Horror Classics
UK oversize poster magazine printed on slick paper. Publisher: Legend Publishing, then Harpdown Publishing. Editors: John Barraclough, Kevin O'Neill and Jim Shier. 12 issues 1974 to 1975. Publication schedule was bimonthly. / Poster-format publications were quite popular in the UK during the 1970s appearing from various publishers (see Science Fiction Monthly). This title was somewhat different from Monster Mag in ...
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 ...