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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 ...
Naked Jungle, The
Film (1953). Paramount. Directed by Byron Haskin. Produced by George Pal. Written by Philip Yordan and Franz Bachelin, based on the story "Leiningen Versus the Ants" (1937 as "Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen"; trans December 1938 Esquire) by Carl Stephenson. Cast includes William Conrad, Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker. 95 minutes. Colour. / This film is not strictly sf, though it does follow the basic ...
Gems, Jonathan
(1952- ) US screenwriter and author of Mars Attacks! (1996), a Tie to the Tim Burton film Mars Attacks! (1996), which it novelizes. This film's screenplay was also by Gems, based on the "Mars Attacks" series of Topps trading cards (1962); he had earlier co-scripted Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), based on ...
Stimson, F J
(1855-1943) US lawyer, diplomat (ambassador to Argentina 1915-1921) and author, who sometimes wrote as by J S of Dale, the name he used in The King's Men: A Tale of Tomorrow (1884) with Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly and J T Wheelwright, describing an attempted monarchist coup in 1940s America which escalates into a Future War; the republicans win. In the Three Zones ...
Gedge, Pauline
(1945- ) New Zealand-born Canadian author who is principally known for her best-selling nonfantastic historical fiction with ancient Egyptian settings [not listed below], but has also written fantasy and horror. Her first novel of strong genre interest is the fantasy or Science Fantasy Stargate (1982), a kind of alternate-Cosmology creation myth in which a Sun god ...
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 ...