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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 ...
Extant
US tv series (2014-2015). Tristar Television and Sony International Television for CBS. Created by Mickey Fisher. Executive producers included Halle Berry, Mickey Fisher, Steven Spielberg and Greg Walker. Directors include Adam Arkin, Kevin Dowling, Adam Kane, Dan Lerner and Christine Moore. Writers include Leslie Bohem, Eliza Clark, Mickey Fisher and Gavin Johannsen. Cast includes Halle Berry, Pierce Gagnon, Grace Gummer, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, ...
Napier, Bill
Working name of Scottish astronomer and author William M Napier (1940- ), whose several Technothrillers teasingly approach genuine sf patterns of cognition, but generally baulk from taking them as the burden of the tales told; the titles closest to full sf include Nemesis (1998) and The Lure (2002), the former featuring a threatened US Asteroid impact with devious political ...
MacDonald, Philip
(1900-1980) UK-born screenwriter and author of detective novels, son of Ronald MacDonald and grandson of George MacDonald, in California from 1931. He was best known for a series of detective novels, most featuring the amateur investigator Anthony Gethryn, beginning with The Rasp (1924) and including the remarkable serial-killer procedurals Murder Gone Mad (1931) and X v. Rex ...
Forsyth, Frederick
(1938- ) UK author who gained fame with his first novel, The Day of the Jackal (1971), and whose books are generally political thrillers. The Shepherd (1975 chap), however, is a sentimental Timeslip or ghost fantasy in which a pilot on Christmas Eve 1957 is saved from crashing by a World War Two pilot in an antique bomber: pilot and plane had been shot down on the Christmas Eve of ...
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 ...