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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 ...
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Film (1991). Paramount. Directed by Nicholas Meyer. Written by Denny Martin Flinn, Meyer, based on a story by Leonard Nimoy, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal. Cast includes Persis Khambatta and the lead players from the Star Trek television series, along with Kim Cattrall, Rosana DeSoto, Christopher Plummer, Morgan Sheppard and David Warner. 109 minutes. Colour. / After the ...
Werlin, Nancy
(1961- ) US author, primarily of Young Adult fantasy, including the Scarborough Fair sequence [see Checklist]. Of sf interest is Double Helix (2004), whose young protagonist discovers that he is the subject of an illicit experiment in Eugenics designed to apply a molecular biologist's Inventions in the field of ...
Stadler, Matthew
(1959- ) US author, most of whose work is nonfiction comprising attempts – some modestly persuasive – to reconcile the postmodern consciousness of enlightened citizens of the world with the planetary spread or sprawl of the city over the past century. In Where We Live Now (coll), where he embraces (to a degree) the concept of the Zwischenstadt ["in-between city"] espoused by Thomas Sieverts (1934- ) in 1997. Something of this ...
Pinsker, Sarah
(1977- ) US singer-songwriter and author, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Not Dying in Central Texas" in Nine for June 2012. She initially published only in shorter forms, though prolifically, with more than 50 stories released by 2019. "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss" (1-8 July 2013 Strange Horizons) won a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. She may be best known ...
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 ...