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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 ...
Time Express
US tv series (1979). Warner Brothers Television for NBC-TV. Created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. Produced by Leonard B Kaufman. Directors included Michael Caffey, Alan J Levi. Writers included Pat Fielder, Stephen Kandel. Cast includes Coral Browne, Woodrow Parfrey, William Phipps, Vincent Price and James Reynolds. Four 50-minute episodes. Colour. / The Time Express was a very special railway train apparently owned by Jason and Margaret Winters (Price and Browne), who served as ...
Metaphorosis
US monthly Online Magazine, first issue January 2016. Edited by B Morris Allen. Stories are published weekly online, then collected in monthly ebooks and (since July 2018) paperbacks; there are also annual collections reprinting the relevant year's tales. Each issue comprises 4-5 science fiction or fantasy stories, except for December 2017, which had 6: they are usually short stories, occasionally novelettes, rarely novellas. / Stories are, at worse, ...
Bama, James
(1926-2022) US artist and illustrator, active from before World War Two, in which he served. Some of his work as an illustrator was for sf magazines, beginning with the cover of Out of This World Adventures for December 1950; his work for the Saturday Evening Post was nonfantastic. His first book cover, for the nonfantastic A Bullet for Billy the Kid (1950) ...
Carlisle, Anne
(?1956- ) US film actress and author who co-wrote the film Liquid Sky (1982) directed by Slava Tsukerman, and later novelized her script as Liquid Sky (1987). Both film and book display elements of spoof Gothic: Aliens are discovered in New York harvesting humans for the addictive chemical they give off at the moment of orgasm (see Sex), but ...
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 ...