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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 ...
Crazies, The
Film (1973; vt Code Name Trixie). Cambist Films. Directed by George Romero. Written by Romero, based on a story by Paul McCollough. Cast includes Lane Carroll, Harold Wayne Jones and W G McMillan. 104 minutes. Colour. / A plane carrying germ-warfare material crashes near a small US town and pollutes the drinking-water, causing an epidemic of homicidal and psychopathic behaviour in the inhabitants. The army moves in and the crazed brutality ...
Mothership Zeta
US quarterly Online Magazine produced by Escape Artists, Inc. and edited by Mur Lafferty. It is a companion to the podzines Escape Pod, Pseudopod and Podcastle. After a small trial issue in September 2015, it appeared for six issues from October 2015 to January 2017 before it ran into financial difficulties. / Its emphasis was on fiction that was fun and did not take itself too seriously. That was ...
Freeling, Nicolas
Working name of UK author born Diamond Arthur Sigurd Partridge (1927-2003) but known for most of his life as Nicolas Davidson (under which name he married) or Nicolas Freeling; long resident in Europe. He is best known for the Van der Valk detective series, featuring Piet Van der Valk, Commissaris in the Amsterdam police; this character appeared in most of Freeling's earlier novels, though not in Gadget (1977), in which an abducted physicist is persuaded by his abductors to ...
In Flames
Swedish heavy metal band, formed in Gothenberg in 1990 by guitarist Jesper Strömblad (1972- ) and vocalist Anders Fridén (1973- ). Their third album Whoracle (1997) is a concept album about the rise of a global society on Earth, leading to a technologically advanced utopia, which is then destroyed by the inevitability of human greed and exploitation. The apocalypse is televised. In Flames have a ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...