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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 ...
Project Moon Base
Film (1953); title also rendered as Project Moonbase; the rendering above appears in the film's opening credits. Galaxy Pictures / Lippert. Directed by Richard Talmadge. Written by Robert A Heinlein and Jack Seaman. Cast includes Ernestine Barrier, Ross Ford, Larry Johns, Donna Martell, Barbara Morrison and Hayden Rorke. 63 minutes, cut to 51 minutes. Black and white. / Astronaut Bill Moore (Ford) is upset because his upcoming mission to ...
Wirkus, Tim
(? - ) US author, with a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of South California, whose Mormon upbringing plays a significant part in their work to date. Wirkus's first novel, City of Brick and Shadow (2014), while non-fantastical, draws on the influence of Jorge Luis Borges for a mystery, never resolved, about two hapless, young Mormon missionaries in Brazil who are drawn into a ...
Waterhouse, Elizabeth
(1834-1918) UK author whose acknowledged works consist mostly of religious studies and tracts written from a Quaker standpoint. The Brotherhood of Rest (1886 chap) as E W describes a retreat, somewhere in Britain, conceived as a Utopia. Her outright sf novel, The Island of Anarchy: A Fragment of History in the 20th Century (1887), is told as a Future History, detailing an extremely doctrinaire ...
Amazing Stories Science Fiction Novel
US Digest-size magazine. One undated issue, June 1957, published by Ziff-Davis; edited (uncredited) by Paul W Fairman. This was to be a quarterly magazine printing book-length novels in imitation of Galaxy Science Fiction Novels. The only novel was Henry Slesar's routine novelization of the film ...
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 ...