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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 ...
Voyagers!
US tv series (1982-1983). Universal. Created by James D Parriott. Produced by Jill Sherman and Robert Steinhauer. Directors include Allan Levi, Bernard McEveety, Ron Satloff and Virgil Vogel. Cast includes Jon Eric Hexum and Meeno Peluce. Twenty 50-minute episodes. Colour. / Phineas Bogg (Hexum) and Jeffrey Jones (Peluce) are Voyagers who Time-Travel to put History right – which is to say, the way we know it to ...
Embryo
Film (1976). Cine Artists. Directed by Ralph Nelson. Written by Anita Doohan, Jack W Thomas, based on a story by Thomas. Cast includes Barbara Carrera, Rock Hudson, Diane Ladd and Roddy McDowall. 105 minutes. Colour. / In this variation on the Frankenstein theme, an overreaching Scientist (Hudson), while experimenting on a premature foetus with a growth hormone, creates in weeks a fully developed 25-year-old woman ...
Ryman, Ras
Pseudonym of UK author James D Brown (? - ) for three Space Operas published by Robert Hale Limited; they are The Quadrant War (1976) – a Space Opera of War between rival interstellar empires – Day of the Ultramind (1977) and Weavers of Death (1981) [JC]
Allatini, Rose Laure
(1890-1980) Austrian-born author, in UK from 1911 or earlier, who also published as by Eunice Buckley, A T Fitzroy, Mrs Cyril Scott and Lucian Wainwright. Though her identity was not revealed at this point, she gained some vicarious notoriety for her novel Despised and Rejected (1918) as by A T Fitzroy, which was successfully prosecuted for its sympathetic presentation of a homosexual conscientious objector in World War One, a totally ...
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 ...