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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 ...
Object Z
UK tv series (1965). Associated-Rediffusion Television. Produced and directed by Daphne Shadwell. Written by Chris McMaster. Cast includes William Abney, Celia Bannerman, Trevor Bannister, Brandon Brady, Margaret Neale, Ralph Nossek, Denys Peek and Julian Somers. Six 24-minute episodes. Black and white. / Professor Ramsay (Nossek) and other Scientists report that a meteoroid with a diameter of six or more miles is on collision course with Earth, ...
Taylor, Charles Henry
(? -? ) US author of By Wireless from Venus (1922), a lightly fictionalized report, conveyed by radio Communications from Venus, describing life in the solar system. Some civilizations are advanced Utopias but others are not. [JC]
Osborn, Laughton
(1809-1878) US poet and author whose Lost Race novel, Travels by Sea and Land of Alethitheras (1868), anonymous, is constructed as a Fantastic Voyage during which the protagonist visits a large number of contrasting cities and regions, all subject to Satire, including the lost world at the heart of the continent. [JC]
Kirby, Jack
Pseudonym of US comic-book illustrator Jacob Kurtzberg (1917-1994), who was known as Jack Kirby from about 1940, though he does not seem to have taken that name legally; other early pseudonyms include Jack Curtiss, Curt Davis, Ted Grey, Lance Kirby and Fred Sande. One of the giants in the Comics industry, he began his more than fifty-year career in 1936 working on newspaper comic strips for the Lincoln Newspaper Syndicate; briefly, in 1939, he worked for Fleischer ...
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 ...