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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 ...
Pierce, Thomas
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of specific sf interest with "This Is an Alert" in The New Yorker for 30 March 2015, which is set in the very Near Future, though some earlier stories are disruptively fantastic. The tales assembled in Hall of Small Mammals (coll 2015) implement a wide range of techniques associated with Fabulation in general; deadpan ...
Earth II
American made-for-tv film (1971). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Directed by Tom Gries. Written by Allan Balter and William Read Woodfield. Cast includes Lew Ayres, Edward Bell, Anthony Franciosa, Mariette Hartley, Scott Hylands, Gary Lockwood, Hari Rhodes and Inga Swenson. 100 minutes. Colour. / After the United States places a large Space Station or Space Habitat in orbit, the President of the United States (Ayres) ...
Hardingham, Edward
(1842-1929) UK poet and author known mainly for Hugh Leventhorpe (1906), a Lost Race romance featuring survivals of the Mayan civilization. [JC]
Testa, Dom
(? - ) US broadcaster and author, active for about forty years in the former capacity; his Young Adult Galahad sequence beginning with Galahad 1: The Comet's Curse (2004) is set after all human adults have died in a Pandemic caused by a virus imported from off-planet, and focuses on the adventures of a group of 251 children on a Spaceship en ...
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 ...