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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 ...
Lottman, Eileen
(1927-2013) US author whose sf work has been restricted to Ties, mainly for the The Bionic Woman (1976-1978) television series: The Bionic Woman: Welcome Home, Jaime (1976; vt The Bionic Woman: Double Identity 1976 UK as by Maud Willis) and The Bionic Woman: Extracurricular Activities (1977; vt The Bionic Woman: A Question of Life 1977 UK as by Maud Willis). ...
Costello, Frederick H
(1851-1921) US author of the Prehistoric SF novel Sure-Dart: A Story of Strange Hunters and Stranger Game in the Days of Monsters (1909), set at a time when eastern Colorado was an inland sea, and human boys hunted dinosaurs (see Scientific Errors). [JC]
Westerns
The Western is dead: to begin with. In its pure form, unlike other genres of popular fiction, nonfantastic Westerns, also known as horse operas from the teens of the twentieth century, take place in a specific area or Zone of the world during the brief span between that point when whites began to conquer the Territory and that point when, fatally, they succeeded. Many Westerns, both written and film, were in fact composed during this period, and were in fact ...
Keyes, Noel
Pseudonym of British-born US author and anthologist David Noel Keightley (1932-2017), whose Contact (anth 1963) is a theme Anthology dealing with meetings of humans and Aliens (see First Contact). According to L W Currey, Sam Moskowitz "served as an anonymous collaborator and selected some of the contents". [PN/DRL]
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 ...