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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 ...
Brainstorm
Film (1983). A JF Production/MGM/UA. Directed by Douglas Trumbull. Written by Robert Stitzel and Philip Frank Messina, based on a story by Bruce Joel Rubin. Cast includes Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson, Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood. 106 minutes. Colour. / A team of Scientists including the estranged husband and wife Michael Brace (Walken) and Karen Brace (Wood) invent a ...
Felix the Cat
US animated film shorts (1919-1930). Pat Sullivan studio. Created by Otto Messmer and Pat Sullivan. Directed and written by Otto Messmer. 180 episodes (4-11 minutes), all but 12 silent; 15 silent episodes were reissued with sound 1929-1930. Black and white. / Felix was the most popular animated character prior to the rise of Mickey Mouse, and an early example of the successful merchandising of film-related Toys and songs. There is some dispute over who ...
Roberts, Willo Davis
(1928-2004) US author of books for adults, many of them nonsupernatural horror and gothics, and for children, including one Young Adult tale of sf interest, The Girl with the Silver Eyes (1980), in which a group of mothers, having been given experimental drugs, give birth to Mutant children. The young protagonist must choose whether or not to expose her ESP powers to an unfriendly world. ...
Shaw, Stanley
(1870-? ) Australian author in whose sf novel, The Locust Horde (1924), the eponymous swarm consists not of insects on the rampage but Russian women and children, who are involved in a Near Future conspiracy to flood America with immigrants. [JC]
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 ...