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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 ...
Bixby, E Rew
(1912-2006) US author known only for his two sf adventures, Ambush Planet (1978) which is a Space Opera, and Fire Throne Mountain (1981), in which an attack of Aliens upon a colony planet is given a Planetary Romance flavour. [JC]
Tolkien, J R R
(1892-1973) South-African-born philologist and author, in UK from 1893, who specialized in early forms of English; his academic career was crowned by his appointment as Merton Professor of English at Oxford University in 1945, a post he held until his retirement in 1959. He specialized as a scholar in early forms of English – his early publications include A Middle English Vocabulary (1922) and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (trans 1925) with E V Gordon, and ...
Moody, Rick
(1961- ) US author whose novels, beginning with Garden State (1992), tend to focus on the travails of survival in late twentieth-century urban America, the best known of these tales being The Ice Storm (1994). Two of the three novellas assembled in Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas (coll 2007) edge close to the fantastic; the third, "The Albertine Notes" (in McSweeney's Mammoth Treasure of Thrilling Tales, anth 2003, ...
Talabi, Wole
(1986- ) Nigerian engineer, editor and author now resident in Malaysia. Talabi began publishing work of genre interest with "The Human Thing" in The Naked Convos in 2011. He made his first professional sale with "Wednesday's Story" in Lightspeed Magazine for May 2016, and has since published a string of works in genre publications including F&SF, Clarkesworld and others. "The Regression Test" ...
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 ...