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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 ...
Sim, Dave
(1958- ) Canadian artist and author, creator of Cerebus the Aardvark, the abrasive and perverse eponymous star of a satirical Comic book originally intended as a pastiche of Robert E Howard's Conan the Barbarian, and which has lampooned a number of the leading characters of the Heroic-Fantasy and comics genres. The comic book features several ...
Swift Morgan
UK Comic (1948-1953). T V Boardman & Co Ltd (see Tom Boardman). Nine issues, numbered #2, #4, #6, #9, #16, #30, #38, #50 and #52. Artwork by Denis McLoughlin; scripts by Colin McLoughlin and Denis McLoughlin. Most issues had one story per issue, and used limited colour printing; #2 mentions a second story on its cover, whilst #50 (titled "Swift Morgan Space Comic") and #52 (titled "Swift Morgan Spaceways Comic") each had two ...
Tarantino, Janice
(? - ) US author of the romantic Time-Travel Crystal Women sequence beginning with The Crystal Prophecy (1995), set in the Far-Future land of Zenobia, at a time when the dominant sorority known as the Crystal Women, who possess Psi Powers, has been virtually destroyed. Two contemporary siblings, one per volume, are transported through time ...
Perrotta, Tom
(1961- ) US screenwriter and author, most of whose fiction – like Election (1998), Little Children (2004) and The Abstinence Teacher (2007) – is nonfantastic. He is of sf interest for The Leftovers (2011), for which he also collaborated on the screenplay for the Television series The Leftovers (2014-2017). The basic tale is ...
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 ...