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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 ...
Aachi & Ssipak
South Korean animated film (2006). JTeam Studios. Directed by Jo Beom-jin. Written by Kang Sang-kyun, Jeong Hye-won and Jo Beom-jin. Voice cast includes Im Chang-jung, Lee Gyu-hwa, Yang Jeong Hwa, Shin Hae-chul, Seo Hye-jeong, Ryoo Seung-bum and Hyun Young. 90 minutes. Colour. An English version, rewritten and reworked by Ed Skudder and Zack Keller (who also voiced the two main characters), was released in 2014. / The film opens with an army of small ...
Schwob, Marcel
(1867-1905) French author whose fantasies were influential on authors like Jorge Luis Borges; it is not known if Clark Ashton Smith read his work, though resemblances in tone and venue make this not unlikely. For his story "La Mort d'Odjigh" ["The Death of Odjigh"] (1892; trans by Iain White in The King in the Golden Mask, coll 1982), see Origin of Man. [JC]
Littell, Philip
(1868-1943) US author of a Satire replaying the story of Adam and Eve in modern dress. Woman is intrinsically more frivolous than Man, etc (see Feminism; Women in SF). [JC]
Monster Mag
UK oversize Cinema poster magazine printed on slick paper. Publisher: Top Sellers Limited. Editors: Jan and Roger Cook to #14; Dez Skinn thereafter. 17 numbered issues from 1973 to 1976. / An early Splatter Movie publication, Monster Mag carried brief one- to three-page articles on such then-current films as The Exorcist (1973) and The ...
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 ...