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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 ...
Freiberger, Fred
(1915-2003) Film and Television writer and producer, noted for producing the final season of the original Star Trek (1966-1969), and perhaps somewhat unfairly blamed for the lower quality of that last season. With the series suffering from a reduced production budget and aired in a time slot where it had no chance of decent ratings, there was little more that he could have done. Previously, Freiberger wrote screenplays for ...
Cole, Ira A
(1883-1973) US author of a Lost Race novel, Ibe of Atlan (1947), set in nineteenth-century Colorado, where an advanced civilization is found living in secret. Cole corresponded with H P Lovecraft and others in a round-robin discussion entitled "The Kleicomolo". [JC]
Tearmoon Empire
Japanese animated tv series (2023; original title Tearmoon Teikoku Monogatari: Dantōdai kara Hajimaru, Hime no Tensei Gyakuten Story). Based on the Light Novels by Nozomu Mochitsuki. Directed by Yūshi Ibe, Written by Deko Akao. Voice cast includes Shun Horie, Tomori Kusunoki, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Kanon Takao, Sumire Uesaka and Yuichiro Umehara. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / Mia Luna Tearmoon (Uesaka), ...
Marlow, Max
Joint pseudonym of UK authors Christopher Robin Nicole (1930- ) and Diana Mary Bachmann Nicole (1950- ) for several Technothrillers, beginning with The Red Death (1989), a tale set in the Near Future where a devastating Pandemic is sweeping the world; further titles, like Meltdown (1991) and Growth (1993), repeat ...
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 ...