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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 ...
Gurgu, Costi
(1969- ) Romanian author, in Canada from around 2000, active from the early 1990s. His first novel, Retetarium (2006; author's English-language version as RecipeArium 2017), is an exorbitantly intense fantasy set in a Kingdom whose males depend for pleasure, and the chance of Immortality, on their sense of smell, as shaped and stimulated by artists known as Recipears; the protagonist ...
Le Clézio, J M G
(1940- ) French author, born to Mauritian parents, and peripatetic for many years, his countries of residence including Nigeria, the UK and the USA; now primarily resident in France, America and Mauritius. Although he is known primarily for his work outside the sf field, much of his early work makes extensive use – though in an Absurdist and/or nouvelle roman mode – of sf tropes and topoi, beginning with ...
Womack, James
(1979- ) UK editor, translator and poet, married to Marian Womack, notable as a team for The Best of Spanish Steampunk (anth 2015 ebook) with Marian Womack (see Steampunk). His translations includes work by Dmitri Bilenkin, Sergio del Molino, Sever Gansovsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Silvina ...
Strause, Greg
(1975- ) US filmmaker generally co-credited with his brother Colin (1976- ), often under their preferred joint title as "The Brothers Strause". Primarily a special-effects team, they co-directed Alien Vs Predator: Requiem (2007) and Skyline (2010); they have also provided effects, since 2002 through their company Hydraulx or hy*drau"lx, for many films including Titanic (1997), ...
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 ...