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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 ...
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
US Small Press magazine published originally by Gleekit, Inc, of Brighton, Massachusetts and from issue #6 (May 2000) by Small Beer Press, Brooklyn, New York; produced and edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant. Published twice yearly since Winter 1996/1997 in a distinctive half-legal-size format (8.5 x 7 in; 216 x 180 mm), the early issues had minimal distribution beyond the Boston area (the first issue had only 26 copies printed and had to ...
Hoover, Thomas
(1941- ) US author in whose Technothriller, Project Daedalus (1991), the Soviet military and the Japanese Yakuza plot to rule the world; but a superplane stands in the way. [JC]
Beastars
Japanese animated tv series (2019-current). Based on the Manga by Paru Itagaki. Orange. Directed by Shinichi Matsumi. Written by Nanami Higuchi. Voice cast includes Chikahiro Kobayashi, Yūki Ono and Sayaka Senbongi. 24 23-minute episodes. Colour. / Beastar's world is much like ours (see Alternate History), but its civilization consists of anthropomorphized animals and birds (whose ...
Speculative Fiction and Beyond
US Online Magazine produced by John Bradt, Irvine, California. It saw just one preview issue in July 1996 before Bradt was involved in a serious car accident and was unable to continue. His dream was to produce the first independent professional online magazine, taking a lead from Omni Online; he had great plans, all of which came to nothing. Perhaps surprisingly, that first issue still survives on the internet (see link ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...