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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 ...
Bowman, W E
(1911-1985) UK draughtsman, civil engineer and author whose best-known work is The Ascent of Rum Doodle (1956), a Parody of British mountaineering expedition reports which quickly gained a cult following. An utterly inept team led by the pompous, Pooteresque "Binder" (his codename in walkie-talkie communications), and including an easily distracted Scientist, ascends or rather fails to ascend the titular mountain. The ...
Virus
1. Film (1981); vt of Fukkatsu no Hi. / 2. Film (1998). Universal Pictures and Mutual Film Company present a Dark Horse Entertainment/Valhalla Motion Pictures production. Produced by Gale Anne Hurd. Directed by John Bruno. Written by Chuck Pfarrer, Dennis Feldman, based on the comic Virus (1992-1993) by Pfarrer. Cast includes William Baldwin, Jamie Lee Curtis, Joanna ...
Delicatessen
French film (1990). Constellation/UCG/Hachette Premiere with the collaboration of Sofinergie/Sofinergie 2/Investimage 2/Investimage 3. Directed and written by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. Cast includes Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Ticky Holgado, Jacques Mathou, Dominique Pinon, Anne-Marie Pisani, Rufus, and Karin Viard. 99 minutes. Colour. / This film is an Absurdist fable about ...
Robinson, Patrick
(1940- ) UK journalist and author, in US for many years. He is of some sf interest for his Admiral Morgan sequence of Near Future Technothrillers beginning with Nimitz Class (1997). The tales are centred on the American navy and its institutional allies and foes, as espionage and terrorism threats to America, mostly originating in Iran and/or China, are thwarted time and again. The ...
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 ...