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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 ...
Space Patrol [comic]
US Comic (1952). Two issues. Approved Comics, Inc (see Ziff-Davis). A spin-off from the tv series Space Patrol (1950-1955). Artists include Clarence Doore, Bernie Krigstein and Norman Saunders. Three Space Patrol and one other strip per issue. #2 also has an unsigned two-page article on H G Wells entitled "A Giant of Prophecy" (see ...
Marcus, Robert B
(1947- ) US author of Shadow on the Stars (1977), an unremarkable Space Opera. [JC]
Leslie, Norman
(? - ) UK author of the Kiwi Club series comprising The Kiwi Club (1938) and Raid over England (1938), set in the very Near Future and featuring a group of airmen from the previous war banded together to save England from its gathering foes, who (in the second volume) plan to bomb England with disease-carrying packets (see Weapons). [JC]
Ives, Franklin Titus
(1828-1910) US businessman and author whose book, The Hollow Earth (1904), is an unfictionalized essay on the concept of the Hollow Earth as argued by John Cleves Symmes. [JC]
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...