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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 ...
Frozen Synapse
Videogame (2011). Mode 7 Games (M7). Designed by Ian Hardingham, Paul Taylor. Platforms: Lin, Mac, Win. / Frozen Synapse is a Computer Wargame, developed as an Independent Game, in which the player controls small groups (or "systems") of mindless Clones (or "vatforms") in small military actions. The gameplay, in which the player works out their ...
Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review
US critical magazine, founded and edited by Neil Barron, published by Borgo Press, 13 issues 1979-1980; revived with the Science Fiction Research Association as publisher, still ed Barron, 20 issues 1982-1983; amalgamated with Fantasy Newsletter to form Fantasy Review, January 1984, edited by Robert A ...
Atom Squad
Juvenile tv series (1953-1954). NBC-TV. Produced by Larry White and Adrian Samish. Directed by Joe Behar. Written by Paul Monash. Cast includes Robert Courtleigh, Bob Hastings, Bram Nossen and Harrison Sheppard. 142 15-minute episodes. Black and white. / The Atom Squad is a top-secret organization protecting the USA from various Cold War-era threats involving radiation or Nuclear Energy, often as the result of sabotage, ...
Fabulation
We do not intend to make here – or to quote – any sustained theoretical argument about the nature of fabulation as the term was conceived by Robert Scholes in The Fabulators (1967) and amplified in his Structural Fabulation (1975). Our inevitable starting point is Genre SF, a central concern throughout this encyclopedia being to focus on its nature and upon its evolution and exfoliations over ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...