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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 ...
Morris, Edward
(1975- ) US author of much short fiction collected in Shock Theatre: Collected Speculative Fiction, 2002-2006 (coll 2011) and further volumes [see Checklist below]. There Was a Crooked Man (2009) is a Time Travel tale in which an insane soldier from a post-nuclear future arrives in seventeenth-century America and begins wreaking havoc upon history. The Arkadia trilogy-in-progress, as listed below, is ...
Newman, John
(1927-1991) UK research chemist, author and fan who as J O Newman contributed a book review to Walter Gillings's Fantasy Review #2 (April/May 1947) and was listed as an associate editor of that publication from #6 (December 1947/January 1948) to #15 (Summer 1949). From 1953 to 1959 he published many science essays as John Newman in New Worlds and occasionally ...
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
US animated tv series (2004-2009). Cartoon Network Studios. Created by Craig McCracken. Directors include Robert Alvarez, Robert Cullen, Craig McCracken, Randy Myers and Eric Pringle. Writers include Darrick Bachman, Lauren Faust, Craig Lewis and Tim McKeon. Voice cast includes Grey DeLisle, Keith Ferguson, Tom Kane, Sean Marquette. 79 22-minute episodes and eighteen shorts. Colour. / Aged eight, Mac (Marquette) is getting too old to have an ...
Lloyd, J Wm
Working name of US sexologist, utopian theorist and author John William Lloyd (1857-1940), advocate of The Karezza Method of sexual intercourse, in which the male does not ejaculate, thus strengthening semen for eugenical reasons. His Natural Man sequence – comprising The Natural Man: A Romance of the Golden Age (1902) and ...
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 ...