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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 ...
Robson, Justina
(1968- ) UK author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Trésor" for The Third Alternative for Summer 1994 as by Justina L A Robson, and who made considerable impact with her first novel, Silver Screen (1999), set in a realistically conceived – but not particularly Dystopian – Near Future England, where a team of ...
Final Fantasy
Videogame (1987). Square. Designed by Hironobu Sakaguchi. Platforms: NES (1987); MSX (1989); WSC (2000); PS1 (2002); PSP (2007); vt Final Fantasy Origins PS1 (2002); vt Final Fantasy Mobile Phone (2004); vt Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls GBA (2004); vt Final Fantasy Anniversary Edition PSP (2007); iOS (2010). / ...
Warren, Bill
Working name of William Bond Warren (1943-2016), sf fan and film buff, author with Allan Rothstein of the Recursive SF murder mystery Fandom Is a Way of Death (1984 chap), set in and distributed at the 1984 Worldcon in Los Angeles, and featuring many fan characters including Forrest J Ackerman. Warren worked with Walt Lee on the latter's monumental, ...
Day Time Ended, The
Film (1980; vt Earth's Final Fury; vt Time Warp; vt Vortex). Charles Band Productions/Manson International Pictures. Produced by Wayne Schmidt and Steve Neill. Directed by John "Bud" Cardos. Written by Schmidt, J Larry Carroll and Davis Schmoeller from an original story by Steve Neill. Animation by Dave Allen. Special effects photography by Allen and Paul W Gentry. City of Light created by Jim Danforth. Cast includes Jim Davis, Scott ...
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 ...