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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 ...
Roberts, James Hall
Pseudonym of US author Robert Lipscomb Duncan (1927-1999), which he used for some thrillers at the edge of the fantastic, including The Burning Sky (1966), a Lost Race tale set in the Sonora Desert of Arizona, where remnants of the highly-civilized Hohokam civilization have survived in secret. [JC]
Kemono Friends
Japanese animated tv series (2017-current). Yaoyorozu (season 1), Tomason (season 2). Created by Mine Yoshizaki. Season 1 directed and written by Tatsuki; season 2 directed by Ryuichi Kimura and written by Takuya Masumot. Voice cast includes Kanae Ito, Yuu Kobayashi, Ai Nonaka, Yuka Ozaki and Aya Uchida. 24 24-minute episodes to date (plus numerous shorts). Colour. / This cheaply produced show (the CG animation is particularly primitive) was developed to ...
Graham, P Anderson
(1856-1925) UK editor and author, active from before 1890, mostly on rural themes, his earlier work including The Rural Exodus: The Problem of the Village and the Town (1892) and The Victorian Era (1897). Graham's infrequent fiction, including The Red Scaur: A Novel of Manners (1897), is nonfantastic, with the exception of his last major work, The Collapse of Homo Sapiens (1923), a Ruined Earth ...
Temianka, Dan
(? - ) US author and critic who began to publish work of genre interest with reviews of Jack Vance in Fantasy Review for June 1986 as Daniel Temianka. His major critical publication is The Jack Vance Lexicon: From Ahulph to Zipangote: The Coined Words of Jack Vance (1992; vt The Jack Vance Lexicon: The Coined Words of Jack Vance, from Ahulph to Zipangote 1995; ...
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 ...