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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 ...
Quilp, Jocelyn
Pseudonym of UK author Henry James Halliwell Sutcliffe (1870-1932), who wrote regional novels about the Yorkshire Dales under his own name; Baron Verdigris: A Romance of the Reversed Direction (1894) – his first book, and his only use of the pseudonym – features a twelfth-century knight cast into confusion by being able to remember both the past and the future, but not to distinguish between them (see Time Out of Sequence). ...
Dille, Flint
(1955- ) US author, a member of the Dille family that owns the Buck Rogers copyright (see Buck Rogers in the 25th Century), and author of a few Buck Rogers stories like "The Relic" and "Armageddon 1995", which appear in his anonymously edited anthology, Buck Rogers: Arrival (anth 1989). He is also responsible for the Agent 13, The Midnight Avenger sequence beginning with ...
Guha, Anton-Andreas
(1937-2010) German journalist and author whose sf novel, Ende: Tagebuch aus dem Dritten Weltkrieg (1983; trans Fred Taylor as Ende: A Diary of the Third World War 1986), provides, as its title indicates, a Near Future vision of the terminal horrors of World War Three as the End of the World approaches Germany; the tale is told from an ...
Fictitious Force
US Semiprozine of unusual dimensions, being letter-size folded in half (11 x 4.25 in; 280 x 110 mm), saddle-stapled, it saw six issues, undated but starting Fall 2005 to Spring 2009, with two issues in 2006. Published and edited by Michele Barasso and Jonathan Laden, Silver Spring, Maryland, with the last issue Laden alone in Washington, District of Columbia. The stories ran the whole range of Speculative Fiction often ...
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 ...