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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 ...
Southern, Terry
(1924-1995) US journalist, screenwriter and author, of greatest sf interest for his brief but seminal involvement (16 November-28 December 1962) in the transformation of Peter George's original novel, Two Hours to Doom (1958) as by Peter Bryant, into the black Satire Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) directed (and in part written) by ...
Winslow, Belle Hagen
Working name of Ingeborg Hagen Winslow (1872-1956) Norwegian-born author, in USA from 1920 or so. Her first novel, The White Dawn (1920), features a Lost World deep Underground in a remote region of Norway, which is discovered in the year 1000 to be inhabited by creatures primordial even then (see Time Abyss) but who turn out possibly to be survivors of one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. ...
Martin, Michael
(? - ) UK author of a spoof Planetary Romance, A Year Near Proxima Centauri (1992), set on the planet Provender, a gourmandizer's heaven; the target of Martin's mild Satire is A Year in Provence (1989) by Peter Mayle (1939-2018), which arguably romanticizes rural life as experienced by visitors. [JC]
Allum, Tom
(? - ) UK author for the Young Adult market, perhaps best known for the Hurricane Harland detective thriller sequence; of sf interest is Emperor of Space (1959; vt Boy Beyond the Moon 1960), a mild Space Opera featuring a lad. [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 ...