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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 ...
Stapp, Robert
(1914-1985) US journalist and author whose sf novel, A More Perfect Union (1970), presents an Alternate History version of America, the Jonbar Point being Abraham Lincoln's decision to evacuate Fort Sumter in 1861, leading to a separate Confederate government. By 1981 the CSA has become even more singularly unpleasant than its fount in Slavery might suggest, and is threatening ...
Müller-Holm, Ernst
(1861-1927) Swedish-born author, in Germany from an early age, whose Ein Rückblick aus dem Jahre 2037 auf das Jahr 2000: Aus den Erinnerungen des Herrn Julian West (1891; trans anon as My Afterdream: A Sequel to the Late Mr. Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward 1900) as by Julian West is a stridently negative response to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888), which is depicted as a whitewash over socialist ...
Russo, Carol
(? - ). American book designer, sometimes credited as a cover artist. She graduated from New York's School of Visual Arts and first worked as a book designer for William Morrow before moving to a similar position at Ace Books, where she met Tom Doherty and Jim Baen, forging friendships that led to her long-term relationships with the companies they later headed, ...
Schildiner, Frank
(? - ) US author much of whose work samples familiar (and sometimes less familiar) figures from Pulp literature, usually French, both fantastic and nonfantastic, in complicatedly juggled narratives. Most of his work manipulates the networks of association of Fantastika, though the sf element in this weaving of story-types is not often dominant. The Frankenstein sequence beginning with ...
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 ...