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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 ...
Crispin, A C
(1950-2013) US author, married to Michael Capobianco, who was first known as a competent author of Ties. These include several for the various Star Trek sub-universes, beginning with Yesterday's Son (1983) and its direct sequel Time for Yesterday (1988); three titles in the "V" sequence, beginning with V (1984) (see "V"); a ...
Bolander, Brooke
(? - ) US author who has also written as by RoboNinja, and who began to release work of genre interest with "Trickster Blues" in Reflection's Edge for October 2008. Much of her fiction – directly or indirectly, through a range of "animal" protagonists and characters – challenges the Homo sapiens presumption that not only do we rule planet Earth but that we are the only actors in the world. Her first book-length work, the ...
Gamera
A giant prehistoric turtle who starred in a number of Monster Movies from the Daiei Studios. The first of these was Daikaijū Gamera (1965), in the entry for which are detailed also the other Gamera films. [JGr] links / Internet Movie Database
Cameron, Berl
A House Name used for sf novels published by Curtis Warren and written by John S Glasby (always in collaboration with Arthur Roberts), Brian Holloway, Denis Hughes and David O'Brien. The latter's International Research Council ...
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 ...