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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 ...
Spano, Jr, Charles A
(1948- ) US author known mainly for an early Tie to the Star Trek universe, Spock, Messiah! (1976) with Theodore R Cogswell. He has also written occasional short fiction, not connected to that universe. [JC]
Valley of the Dinosaurs
US animated tv series (1974). Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS-TV. Created by William Hanna. Executive producers: Hanna and Joe Barbera. Creative Producer: Iwo Takamoto. Directed by Charles A Nichols. Writers included Peter Germano, Bernie Kahn, Henry Sharp, and Jerry Thomas. Cast includes Shannon Farnum, Joan Gardner, Allan Oppenheimer, Mike Road and Frank Welker. Sixteen 30-minute episodes. Colour. / Science ...
Avarya
Turkish animated film (2019). Directed and written by Gökalp Gönen. Voice cast comprises Damla Çay and Sermet Yesil. 20 minutes. Colour. / After seeing Isaac Asimov's Laws of Robotics, we cut to an old man (Yesil) in a Spaceship complaining to his Robot (Çay) that, after travelling for "hundreds or maybe ...
Elliott, William J
(1886-circa 1947) UK author moderately active between the Wars as an author of magazine stories under various names, including W E, W J E, E L Lowitt and L T J Wilte; his two novels of some sf interest are The Silver Panther (1931) and To-Morrow's Spectacles: A Romance (1946), which involves a Time Viewer. [JC]
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 ...