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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 ...
Ellik, Ron
(1938-1968) US computer programmer, author and well-known sf fan, co-editor with Terry Carr of a Hugo-winning Fanzine, Fanac (1958-1961). Ellik was co-author of The Universes of E.E. Smith (1966) with Bill Evans. Most of the book is a concordance of themes, characters, locations, Terminology and so on, though ...
Flood, Eloise
(1963- ) US author of a Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) Tie, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Chains of Command (1992) with Bill McCay, which involves a slave revolt and subsequent problems with bird-like Aliens. As E L Flood she had previously contributed to the Tales of Terror series of brief (48pp) ...
Buland, Trond
(1958- ) Norwegian scientist dr.polit. (Phd in sociology) and sf author, belonging to a generation of new voices emerging in the 1980s. He began to publish work of genre interest with the title story of the Norwegian Original Anthology Siste reis ["The Last Journey"] (anth 1982) edited by Terje Wanberg (1939-2006), followed by "Carita" in the original anthology Asterveg ["The Road to ...
Ebook
An electronic book, normally written as in this encyclopedia as ebook (but as Ebook when linking to this entry). The term is generally used to describe both the hardware – typically a device about the size of a small paper book, with a screen for reading and controls; in appearance similar to a sophisticated cell phone – and any text which has been downloaded into the device. The only slowly increasing popularity of the ebook has been governed by various difficulties which are ...
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 ...