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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 ...
Sacranie, Raj
(1950-1998) UK poet, journalist and author of a collection of short Space Operas, Stories from Outer Space (coll 1979 chap), none previously published. [JC]
Would that It Were
US professional Online Magazine published by Small Potatoes Press, and produced and edited by Don Muchow, Dallas, Texas. 18 quarterly issues, April/June 2000 to October/December 2004, missing only July/September 2004. It paid between 3¢ and 5¢ a word, but it was not until 2010 that Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America recognized its status as a professional market. It was a magazine of historical science fiction, ...
Brennan, Tom
(? - ) US author whose first novel, The One True Prince (2004), sets a story involving Cloning in a Far Future fantasy-like land where most technologies have been lost. [JC]
Herrera, Yuri
(1970- ) Mexican political scientist, academic and author, whose first novel, Trabajos del reino (2004; trans Lisa Dillman as Kingdom Cons 2017), unfolds an abstracted crime tale in a moderately surrealized version of the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez, a venue earlier transfigured by Roberto Bolaño into the Santa Teresa of 2666 (2004). His third ...
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 ...