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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 ...
Slote, Alfred
(1926- ) US author for children and the Young Adult market, of sf interest mainly for his Robot Buddy sequence beginning with My Robot Buddy (1975), in which a boy is given an Android companion capable of perfectly mimicking human behaviour. The two have adventures around the planet, and later into space, trips which require Cryonic freezing to accomplish. In ...
Murder in a Blue World
Spanish film (1973; original title Una gota de sangre para morir amando ["A Drop of Blood to Die Loving"]; vt To Love, Perhaps to Die, 1975; Clockwork Terror, 1986). José Frade Producciones / Cinematográficas S.A. / Intercontinental Productions. Directed by Eloy de la Iglesia. Written by Eloy de la Iglesia, José Luis Garci, Antonio Fons, Antonio Artero and George Lebourg. Cast includes Sue Lyon, ...
Dan, Uri
(1937-2006) Israeli photographer, journalist and author, long identified as an advocate of Ariel Sharon's understanding of the Middle East nightmare; his Ultimatum: Pu 94 (1977) with Peter Mann is a Technothriller set in his home territories. [JC]
Leading Edge, The
US Semiprozine produced by students at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. It began in April 1981 and has generally appeared twice yearly; occasionally (as in 1987 and 2015) there were three issues, and in several other years only a single issue. The Leading Edge is published in a perfect-bound Digest format. It is edited by the students, usually an individual or group for an academic year at a time, and therefore the ...
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 ...