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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 ...
Wootton, Barbara
(1897-1988) UK economist, academic and author, whose husband died on the Western Front (see World War One) a month after their marriage, deeply affecting her future work; she was created a life peer in 1958. London's Burning: A Novel for the Decline and Fall of the Liberal Age (1936) is set in 1940 London, and describes in anti-fascist terms a Near-Future totalitarian exploitation of a ...
Sanjulian
(1941- ) Working name of Spanish artist Manuel Perez Clemente Sanjulian. After attending the Belle Artes de Sant Jordi art school, he began receiving assignments to paint book covers for several European publishers. However, he developed an international reputation by doing illustrations, in the early 1970s, for Jim Warren's Warren Publishing magazines Eerie, Creepy, ...
Kellar, Von
A House Name used for two routine sf adventures published by Curtis Warren: Ionic Barrier (1953) by Denis Hughes and Tri-Planet (1953), whose authorship has not been ascertained. [JC]
Genre SF
By this term, used widely in this encyclopedia, we mean sf that is either labelled science fiction or is instantly recognized by its readership as belonging to that category – or (usually) both. The implication is that any author of genre sf is conscious of working within a genre with certain habits of thought, certain "conventions" – some might even say "rules" – of storytelling. These conventions are embedded primarily in a set of texts which are generally agreed to ...
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 ...