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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 ...
Warren, Dean
(? - ) US engineer, in military service after World War Two and subsequently with Lockheed Missiles and Space, and author. The driving principle shaping most of his work seems to be the need for high Technology solutions to world problems such as Overpopulation and Climate Change, couched in stories, whose focus on individual ...
Meyers, Marc André
(1946- ) Brazilian metallurgist – a professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Program, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego – and author, mostly of nonfiction work in his field; of sf interest is Mayan Mars (2005), set mostly in Mexico, where two plot lines converge: a virus imported from Mars creates a ...
Enriquez, Mariana
(1973- ) Argentinian journalist and author, active from the early 1990s, most of whose early work is unrelentingly focused on the condition of Argentina, and the profoundly distressed survivor generation which came to adulthood in the poison shadow of the dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983. Though transgressive and exorbitant, this early work does not generally interact with the modes of telling the world provided by ...
Raiden, Edward
(? - ) US author of The Gogglers: A Political Satire (1967), an sf Satire whose astronaut protagonist, landing on the planet Goggle, finds that the behaviour of its Alien inhabitants has been distorted by the influence of a previous visitor from Earth. The satire focuses on Politics, race (see Race in SF) and women (see ...
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 ...