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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 ...
Riddick
Film (2013). Universal Pictures and One Race Films in association with Radar Pictures. Written and directed by David Twohy. Cast includes Vin Diesel, Katee Sackhoff and Karl Urban. Theatrical version 119 minutes; Director's Cut 207 minutes. Colour. / After rising from wanted fugitive to Lord Marshal of the Necromongers in The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Riddick undertakes a quest for his ...
Brooks, Edwy Searles
(1889-1965) UK author, mostly of stories for boys in the earlier years of his career, from his first published story "Mr Dorien's Missing £2000" for Yes and No in 1907 into the 1930s, though he also wrote many Sexton Blake Library tales during these years; and mostly of adventure thrillers – including the 50 or more Norman Conquest books as by Berkeley Gray and the 30 or so Ironsides of the Yard books as by Victor Gunn ...
Guttenberg, Elyse
(1952- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Selena's Song" in Spaceships and Spells: A Collection of New Fantasy and Science-Fiction Stories (anth 1987) edited by Martin H Greenberg, Charles G Waugh and Jane Yolen. The hints of Dream Hacking in her first novel, Sunder, Eclipse & Seed ...
Fairfax, John
(1930-2009) UK poet, editor and small-press publisher who co-founded the Arvon Foundation, which still organizes many UK writers' courses and workshops. His principal contribution to sf is as editor of one of the pioneering genre Poetry anthologies of the late 1960s: Frontier of Going: An Anthology of Space Poetry (anth 1969), celebrating Space Flight in particular. Contributors include Robert ...
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 ...