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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 ...
Cline, C Terry, Jr
(1935- ) US author, most of whose work combines thriller and Horror in SF modes; he has published three borderline-sf novels – Damon (1975), about Mutant superchildren, Death Knell (1977), which deals interestingly with Reincarnation, and Cross Current (1979) – and one sf tale, Mindreader (1981), whose ...
Blyton, Enid
(1897-1968) UK author, exclusively for children, and mostly for younger readers; it is estimated that from the beginning of her career in 1922 she may have published as many as 700 separate titles, most of them very short, like the Faraway Tree tales, in which various worlds are accessed entirely by Magic. This vast oeuvre is so overloaded with racist, sexist and class prejudices that most of her titles are more or less unreprintable in their original state. Nor ...
MacInnes, Martin
(1983- ) Scottish author whose first novel, Infinite Ground (2016), carries an unnamed Inspector from Dystopian daylight into the heart of darkness (see Joseph Conrad) at the interior of an unnamed South American country in search of one who has disappeared; the surreal mutability of the world being uncovered, which must all the same be taken literally or the tale becomes mechanically ...
Shannon, John C
(? -? ) UK author of some sf interest for "The Dream of Jacques, the Anarchist" (?? Walsall Advertiser), a Future War vision involving advanced Airships and other newly developed Weapons. The tale appeared, along with some fantasies and weird fiction, in Who Shall Condemn? and Other Stories (coll 1894). Shannon's second collection, ...
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 ...