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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 ...
Wyman, L P
(1873-1950) US author, mostly of boys' books, including nonfantastic series like The Golden Boys and The Lakewood Boys sequences; he is of sf interest for a late Airplane Boys series, The Hunniwell Boys sequence beginning with The Hunniwell Boys in the Air (1928). Their adventures in an aeroplane powered by electricity are modestly extravagant, and their exploit in The Hunniwell Boys' Nonstop Flight Around the World ...
Super Friends
Animated tv series (1973). Hanna-Barbera Productions for ABC-TV. Creative producer: Iwo Takamoto. Directed by Charles A Nichols. Writers included Bernie Kahn, Fred Freiberger, Ken Rotcop and Marshall Williams. Based on the Comic Justice League of America (see Justice League of America). Cast includes Sherry Alberoni, Norman Alden, Danny ...
Palmer, Stephen
(1962- ) UK musician and author whose first sf novel, Memory Seed (1996), depicts the remnants of Homo sapiens, now restricted to a Keep-like decaying City after profound Climate Change – caused mainly by over-exploitation of the planet – has turned the outside world into wilderness overrun with ...
Foster, Sesshu
(1957- ) US poet and author, much of whose poetry has focused on the political and cultural implications of his Japanese-American heritage; of sf interest is Atomik Aztec (2005), within whose gonzo riffs can be detected an Alternate History novel in which the Aztec nation, having long before defeated the invading Europeans, is engaged, during a different version of World War Two, in the ...
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 ...