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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 ...
Xeelee [series]
Future History Series created by Stephen Baxter (whom see for further discussion), extending over a vast Time Abyss from beginning to end of our universe. Though early stories like Baxter's debut "The Xeelee Flower" (Spring 1987 Interzone) recall the colourful inventiveness and Thought-Experiment ...
Nelson, H J
(? - ) US author of Young Adult fiction; the young protagonist of her Last She sequence, beginning with The Last She (2016-2017 Wattpad; 2021), finds herself in a desolated and abandoned Near Future world, soon after a savage Pandemic has decimated the human population. Her survival and eventual absorption into a group of near-feral ...
Serial Experiments Lain
Japanese animated tv series (1998). Triangle Staff/Pioneer LDC. Producers include Yasuyuki Ueda. Writer: Chiaki J Konaka. Directors include: Ryūtarō Nakamura and Lia Sargent. Voice cast includes Yōko Asada, Shō Hayami and Kaori Shimizu. Thirteen 24-minute episodes. Colour. / Some days after her Suicide, a girl's classmates receive emails from her saying that she now lives in the Wired, an expanded ...
Falco, Graeme
(? - ) Canadian accountant and author, initially of the nonfiction Building Wealth and Being Happy: A Practical Guide to Financial Independence (2016) [not listed below]. He is of sf interest for his first novel, The First Olympians (2022), a Near Future Young Adult adventure tale set on a Dystopian Mars, ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...