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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 ...
Miral, Léon
Pseudonym of French journalist, playwright and author Ernest Jacob (1858-1942); with A Viger (whom see for publishing details), he published some sf tales in Le Petit Parisien, a journal for which he had worked at some point; these tales were signed either as by L Miral and A Viger or as by Miral-Viger. [JC]
Dehn, Paul
(1912-1976) UK author of film reviews, verse, essays, plays and screenplays. His book Quake, Quake, Quake: A Leaden Treasury of English Verse (coll 1961) is a sequence of Parody verses, darkly illustrated by Edward Gorey, whose treatment of the nuclear age and the possibility of Holocaust is full of gallows humour, as in an often-quoted quatrain: / ...
Berry, John D
(1950- ) American fan, author, typographer and graphic designer, longtime partner of author Eileen Gunn; he primarily works as an editor, book designer, design writer, and type consultant for software companies, including in the past Microsoft. Almost all of Berry's sf-related writings have appeared in Fanzines, although he published one short story in Jessica Amanda Salmonson's anthology ...
Highlander II: The Quickening
Film (1990). Davis-Panzer/Lamb Bear Entertainment. Directed by Russell Mulcahy. Written by Peter Bellwood, from a story by Brian Clemens and William Panzer, based on characters created by Gregory Widen. Cast includes Sean Connery, Michael Ironside, Christopher Lambert, Virginia Madsen and Allan Rich. 100 minutes. Colour. / This is a sequel to Highlander (1986), which was a pure fantasy about two immortals, one good (with Amnesia) and one bad, ...
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 ...