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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 ...
Hayles, Brian
(1931-1978) UK screenwriter, best known for his work on various Doctor Who projects (22 episodes for various extended stories between 1966 and 1974); his two books of sf interest are Doctor Who Ties: Doctor Who and the Curse of Peladon (1974) and Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors (1976), both based on his own scripts. [JC]
Earthquake
Film (1974). Universal. Directed by Mark Robson. Written by George Fox, Mario Puzo. Cast includes Genevieve Bujold, Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene, Charlton Heston and George Kennedy. 123 minutes. Colour. / This film is included in the encyclopedia as a representative member of a class of marginally sf films, Disaster movies, which normally deal with events that, while they have not yet happened, plausibly might in the very ...
Dollo, Xavier
(1976- ) French critic and author, perhaps better known his sf written as Thomas Geha, none of which has been translated (and not here listed). His nonfiction Histoire de la Science Fiction en bande dessinée (graph 2020; trans Mark Bence as The History of Science Fiction: A Graphic Novel Adventure 2021) with Djibril Morissette-Phan is as stated a history of science fiction (see ...
Wheatley, Dennis
(1897-1977) UK author who served in both World War One and World War Two, in the latter conflict with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 1941-1944. He was a prolific and extremely popular author of many espionage thrillers and historical romances, although the best of his work – and since his death the only category of his large oeuvre to be read at all widely – consists of a number of black-magic tales in ...
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 ...