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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 ...
Summer Camp Island
US animated tv series (2018-2023). Cartoon Network. Creator and executive producer: Julia Pott. Writers include Leah Beckmann, Emma Fletcher, Sarah Lloyd, Kent Osborne, Jack Pendarvis and Julia Pott. Art direction by Sandra Lee. Voice cast includes Whoopi Goldberg, Faye Larkin, Oona Laurence, Ethan Maher, Julia Pott and Elliott Smith. 120 eleven-minute episodes to date (plus the pilot). Colour. / Summer Camp Island transforms once the parents depart: the ...
Frankau, Gilbert
(1884-1952) UK author known mainly for his work outside the sf field, most notably his Byronesque verse novel One of Us (1912) and its sequels, and dozens of popular romances; he was in active service for almost the whole of World War One, registering some of its effects on him in The City of Fear and Other Poems (coll 1917 chap). His mother Julia Frankau (1859-1916) wrote at least one supernatural novel as by Frank Danby (her ...
Alias
US tv series (2001-2006). Bad Robot Productions for ABC. Created by J J Abrams. Producers include Abrams, Ken Olin, Jesse Alexander, and Jeff Pinkner. Writers included Abrams, Pinkner, Alexander, Monica Breen, Alison Schapker, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and J R Orci. Directors included Abrams, Olin, Lawrence Trilling, and Jack Bender. Cast includes Bradley Cooper (Will Tippin; seasons 1-2), Merrin Dungey (Francie Calfo; seasons 1-2), Victor Garber (Jack ...
Strange Fantasy [comic]
US Comic (1952-1954). 14 issues. Farrell Comics Inc. Artists include Iger Shop and Bob Webb. Script writers include Bruce Hamilton and Iger Shop. 36 pages. Usually 4 long strips and a 2-page text story per issue. / Though the covers of #1 and #2 showed Mad Scientists in their laboratories, early issues consisted of fairly traditional Horror stories, many with supernatural elements – ...
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 ...