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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 ...
McDaniel, David
(1939-1977) US author who also wrote as Ted Johnstone. He published a Space Opera, The Arsenal Out of Time (1967), and a number of Ties, most of them based on the Television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968). These begin with The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #4: The Dagger Affair (1966), include ...
Pérez, K K
(? - ) US academic and author, mostly resident abroad and in London, of initial interest for the nonfiction The Myth of Morgan La Fey (2014) [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. Her first Young Adult novel, Sweet Black Waves (2018) as by Kristina Pérez, is fantasy and opens a thus-titled series. Her second, ...
Randle, Kevin D
(1949- ) US author who served in the Army as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam 1968-1969 and in the Air Force as an Intelligence Officer 1976-1986; he has written nonfantastic military fiction as by Eric Helm and Steve MacKenzie [not listed in Checklist below]. He began publishing sf with "Future War" for Combat Illustrated in 1978, but became an active writer only in the 1980s, beginning two sequences in 1980 and 1986 respectively, all titles in collaboration with ...
Connolly, Cyril
(1903-1974) UK author, editor and influential critic, perhaps best known for his examination of obstacles to the writing of masterpieces in the partly autobiographical Enemies of Promise (1938; rev 1949) and for his highly mannered assemblage of aphorisms, commonplace-book quotes and sometimes surreal meditations in The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle (1944; rev 1945) as by Palinurus. He edited the UK literary magazine ...
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 ...