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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 ...
Davidson, Avram
(1923-1993) US author and editor, born in Yonkers, New York; he served in the US Navy 1942-1945 and with the Israeli forces as a medic in the 1948-1949 Arab-Israeli War; he was married to Grania Davis from 1962 to 1964. An orthodox Jew, though his faith found direct expression very rarely in his sf stories, he began publishing work of genre interest with "The Land of Sinim" for Orthodox Jewish Life in 1948 – along with much other work – and ...
Halpern, Marty
(? - ) US editor of several genre Anthologies, beginning with The Silver Gryphon (anth 2003) with Gary Turner. Further titles are Witpunk: Stories with Attitude (anth 2003) with Claude Lalumière, the Fermi Paradox-themed Is Anybody Out There? (anth 2010) with Nick Gevers, ...
Ikarie XB-1
Film (1963; vt Voyage to the End of the Universe; vt Icarus XB-1). Filmové studio Barrandov. Directed by Jindřich Polák. Written by Pavel Juráček, Polák. Cast includes Radovan Lukavský, Dana Medřická and Zdeněk Štěpánek. 81 minutes, cut to 65 minutes. Colour. / This interesting Czech film is set in a giant spaceship (with elaborate interiors designed by Jan Záýzvorka) on a ...
Barry, Richard
(1881-1958) screenwriter, theatrical producer and author, active from around 1905; his Fruit of the Desert (September 1919 Short Stories as "The Secret of the Desert"; exp 1920) is a Lost Race Western set in desert California and featuring survivors of the Aztec Empire. Several long tales of potential interest appeared only in magazines; they include "Sea Lure" (20-27 February 1926 ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...