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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 ...
Yamano Kōichi
(1939-2017) Japanese author, editor and scenarist who became the country's leading proponent of the New Wave in sf, counter to prevailing trends in the field that continued to favour a model of fiction aping that of the Golden Age of SF in the United States. After a peripatetic youth and a flirtation with screenwriting, Yamano's professional sf debut was "X Densha de Ikō" ["Take the X Train"] (July ...
Mitchell, George Dean
(1894-1961) Australian soldier and author whose The Awakening (1937), a Future War tale about the Invasion of Australia, was written as a Dreadful Warning, and as a kind of manual for soldiers facing the future. [JC]
Pardoe, Blaine
(1962- ) US journalist, business executive and author associated almost exclusively with the Battletech Wargame, which gradually expanded from its physical base into a Computer Wargame; he has written Ties for both the central BattleTech sequence, beginning with BattleTech 18: Highlander Gambit (1995), and the connected ...
Niesewand, Peter
(1944-1983) South African-born journalist and author, in the UK after 1973; his reporting of the political situation in what was then Rhodesia, and his imprisonment there, are well-remembered. Of sf interest is Fallback (1982), a Technothriller in which a Computer expert involved in medical research is transformed into a Cyborg in order to prevent ...
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 ...