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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 ...
Seksmisja
Film (1984; vt Sex Mission). Zespóły Filmowe. Directed by Juliusz Machulski. Written by Machulski, Jolanta Hartwig, Paweł Hajny. Cast includes Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Bogusława Pawelec, Bozena Stryjkówna and Jerzy Stuhr. 121 minutes. Colour. / A solemn adventurer and a jolly wastrel volunteer for a Cryogenics experiment and wake up fifty years later (see Sleeper Awakes), after ...
Gay, J Drew
(1846-1890) UK journalist, politician, explorer and author in whose The Mystery of the Shroud: A Tale of Socialism (1887) a fog gives a socialist secret society the chance to conquer England in the Near Future, but the chance is muffed. [JC]
Nichols, Dawson
(? - ) US playwright and author, active in the first capacity from around 2000; none of his plays, though they tend to engage in Pirandelloesque plays between actors and author (see Luigi Pirandello), do more than make reference to the engines of Fantastika [they are not listed below]. His first novel, Terminal Dispatch (2022), follows the attempts of its protagonist and his ...
Tower, Washington L
(? -? ) US author whose Interior World: A Romance Illustrating a New Hypothesis of Terrestrial Organization [for full title see Checklist] (1885) is a Hollow Earth tale after the fashion of John Cleves Symmes; its interest is perhaps diminished by the protagonist's discovery that the interior world is uninhabited. A crank nonfiction essay on ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...