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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 ...
Curtis, Wardon Allan
(1867-1940) US author, a contributor to several pre-sf fiction magazines. His most important sf is a short Identity Transfer story about a brain transplant, The Monster of Lake LaMetrie (September 1899 Pearson's as "The Monster of Lake LaMetrie: Being the Narration of James McLennegan, MD, PhD"; 2011 ebook), in which the brain is human and the recipient body that of a prehistoric survival – an ...
Taylor, Charles Henry
(? -? ) US author of By Wireless from Venus (1922), a lightly fictionalized report, conveyed by radio Communications from Venus, describing life in the solar system. Some civilizations are advanced Utopias but others are not. [JC]
Amazing Digital Circus, The
Australian/US animated webseries (2023-current). Glitch. Created, directed and written by Gooseworx (Cooper Smith Goodwin). Voice cast includes Sean Chiplock, Lizzie Freeman, Gooseworx, Jack Hawkins, Amanda Hufford, Michael Kovach, Marissa Lenti, Ashley Nichols and Alex Rochon. Two 25-minute episodes. Colour. / Premiering on YouTube in October 2023, the The Amazing Digital Circus pilot had over 317 million views (and 6 million likes) in the first 7 months; the second episode ...
Miles, Lawrence
(1972- ) UK author best known for his significant contributions to the Doctor Who universe, though he has occasionally published unconnected work. After some early work in Comics, he began his main association with Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Christmas on a Rational Planet (1996). His most influential work has been in the Doctor Who: Eight Doctor sequence; the four-volume story arc ...
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 ...