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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 ...
Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour, The
Animated tv series (1980-1982). Filmation Associates for CBS-TV. Produced by Don Christensen, Executive Produced by Norm Prescott and Lou Scheimer. Directors, writers uncertain. Uncertain number of 60-minute episodes whose individual segments vary in length. Colour. / This continued the Tarzan segment of Tarzan and the Super 7 (1979-1980) after its split into multiple series: Batman and the Super 7 ...
Day of the Dolphin, The
Film (1973). Avco-Embassy. Directed by Mike Nichols. Written by Buck Henry, based on Un animal doué de raison (1967; trans as The Day of the Dolphin 1969) by Robert Merle. Cast includes George C Scott, Paul Sorvino, Trish Van Devere and Fritz Weaver. 105 minutes. Colour. / This above-average film, from a director well known for social comedy but new to sf, concerns a marine biologist who succeeds in teaching ...
Walkey, S
(1871-1953) UK author, active contributor of boy's stories to various journals from the early 1890s, with an emphasis on pirate tales, with hints of the supernatural that are normally rationalized; the Scarlet Pimpernel-like figure featured in the Jack-a-Lantern sequence is not the superman he seems (see Baroness Orczy). Walkey is of sf interest for In Quest of Sheba's Treasure: A Perilous Adventure by Land and Sea (28 August 1895-?? 1896 ...
Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy
Yugoslav-Czechoslovak (see Czech and Slovak SF) film (1981; original title Gosti iz Galaksije; vt Monstrum z galaxie Arkana; vt Visitors from the Galaxy). Filmové Studio Barrandov, Jadran Film, Kinematografi, Zagreb Film. Directed by Dušan Vukotić. Written by Miloš Macourek and Dušan Vukotić. ...
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 ...