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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 ...
Brennan, Tom
(? - ) US author whose first novel, The One True Prince (2004), sets a story involving Cloning in a Far Future fantasy-like land where most technologies have been lost. [JC]
Means, David
(1961- ) US author, best known from his first fiction, which he began to publish in 1991, as an author of short stories, not normally fantastic – his work in shorter forms has evoked expectable but merited comparisons with Alice Munro and Flannery O'Connor. He is of sf interest for his first novel, Hystopia (2016), which presents an Alternate History version of modern American history whose ...
Pengreep, William
Pseudonym of Australian author William Talbot Pearson (1905-1991), who used this name for his Lost Race novel, The Temple of Sähr (1932), set in the Australian outback, where an unscrupulous scientist uses his Invention, a Ray that induces unconsciousness, to enslave the inhabitants of a previously undiscovered ancient civilization. A Dystopia is created. ...
Goss, James
(1974- ) UK author, playwright and producer whose first work of genre interest was a stage adaptation with Arvind Ethan David of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) by Douglas Adams, as Dirk (first performed 1995; 2016). He has long been associated with the Doctor Who franchise, initially as the content producer in charge of the BBC's official show website from 2000 ...
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 ...