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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 ...
Jacobson, Mark
(1948- ) US journalist – best known for his 1970s work for the Village Voice in New York – and author of an elaborately confabulated sf/fantasy novel, Gojiro (1991); the tale is seen through the eyes of a mild-mannered Monster, a Mutant lizard named after the Japanese film monster Gojira. Gojiro is a kind of Candide (see ...
Cinescape
Letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema magazine printed on glossy paper. Sendal Publications/Cinescape Media/Mania Entertainment. Editor: unknown. At least 78 issues from 1994 to 2004. Publication was generally bimonthly. / One of the more successful imitators of Starlog and its ilk, this title ran for at least a decade; coverage was almost exclusively of then-current films and Television programmes. Featured ...
Glass, Philip
(1937- ) US avant-garde classical composer; Glass has been a prolific, influential and varied maker of music since the 1960s, working in minimalist and popular idioms, utilizing both electronic and more conventional orchestral media. His most distinctive works share a focus on multiply-repeated rhythmic and melodic loops, to often incantatory though always precise and solid effect. The climax of his plotless but widely noted first opera, Einstein on the Beach ...
Timestalkers
Made-for-tv film (1987). Newland/Raynor Productions for CBS-TV. Directed by Michael Schultz. Produced by Charles W Fries, Richard Maynard and John Newland. Screenplay by Brian Clemens, based on the unpublished novel The Tintype by Ray Brown. Cast includes John Considine, William Devane, Lauren Hutton and Klaus Kinski. 100 minutes. Colour. / After his wife and children die in an automobile accident, history professor Scott McKenzie (Devane) distracts himself with his interest ...
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 ...