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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 ...
Parks, Brad
(1974- ) US journalist and author, active from the late 1990s, best-known for his nonfantastic thrillers; he is of sf interest for Unthinkable (2021), in which an amiable house-husband is put into the position of having to kill his crusading lawyer wife in order to save untold numbers of lives at some point in the future. The man coercing him – who is both gifted with Precognitive powers and heads a ...
Eggers, Dave
(1970- ) US editor, screenwriter and author who has also written (in collaboration with his brother) some books for younger children as by Dr and Mrs Haggis-on-Whey; he began to publish work of genre interest with "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly" in McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (anth 2003) edited by Michael Chabon. Much of his work engages in gonzo transgressions of various genres, including the ...
Hardart, F E
(1913-1992) US teacher, mechanical engineer and author, who published at least one item as Flossie Hardart during her short writing career. Her name has sometimes been given in error as Frank E Hardart. One of a relatively small number of female fans before World War Two (see Fandom; History of SF), she began to publish work of genre interest with "The Devil's Pocket" in Astonishing Stories ...
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
Czech film (1970); original title Zabil jsem Einsteina, pánové. Directed by Oldřich Lipský. Written by Oldřich Lipský and Miloš Macourek, based on a story by Josef Nesvadba. Cast includes Jana Brejchová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Petr Čepek, Iva Janžurová, Lubomír Lipský and Jiří Sovák. 95 mins. Colour. / ...
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 ...