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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 ...
Bacon, Eugen
Working name of Tanzania-born computer scientist, editor and author Eugen Matoyo Bacon (1971- ), who lived for some years in the UK before moving to Australia; she began to publish work of genre interest with "Clone of Clones" as Eugen M Bacon, in Twisted Tails: An Anthology to Surprise and Delight (anth 2006) edited by J Richard Jacobs. Her first novel, Claiming T-Mo (2019), is an Equipoisal ...
Tang, Andrea
(? - ) US author who specializes in Young Adult fiction, including her first work of genre interest, "The Necromancer's Apprentice" in Expanded Horizons for August 2012. The Rebelwing sequence beginning with Rebelwing (2020) is set in a balkanized, surreally shattered, Dystopian Near Future America divided into various safe ...
Spider-Man 3
Film (2007). Columbia Pictures presents a Marvel Studios/Laura Ziskin production. Directed by Sam Raimi. Written by Sam & Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent; story by Raimi & Raimi, based on the Marvel Comic by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Cast includes Elizabeth Banks, Thomas Haden Church, James Cromwell, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Topher Grace, Rosemary Harris, Bryce Dallas Howard, Tobey ...
Sapphire and Steel
UK tv series (1979-1982). An ATV Network Production. Written/created by P J Hammond (except "Adventure Five" by Don Houghton and Anthony Read). Executive producer David Reid. Produced by Shaun O'Riordan. Directed by O'Riordan and David Foster. Cast includes Joanna Lumley, David McCallum and David Collings. Four seasons, 34 25-minute episodes in all; broken into "Adventure One" (six episodes 1979), "Adventure Two" (eight episodes 1979), "Adventure Three" (six episodes 1981), "Adventure ...
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 ...