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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 ...
Allhoff, Fred
Working name of Charles Frederick Allhoff (1904-1988), US journalist and author known in the sf field for Lightning in the Night (31 August-16 November 1940 Liberty; 1979), a Future War tale which, when serialized, caused considerable stir because of its defence of the arguments of General Billy Mitchell (1879-1936) about the primacy of air power in any future conflict; for its portrayal of a semi-defeated USA in 1945 as ...
Steele, Mary Q
(1922-1992) US author for children and for the Young Adult market, who also wrote as by Wilson Gage, under which name she wrote the Mrs Gaddy fantasies for younger readers [not listed below]; much of her work was nonfiction. Her first work of some interest in the field of the fantastic, Secret of the Fiery Gorge (1960) as by Wilson Gage, is fantasy. Work of sf interest includes The Journey Outside (1969), whose protagonists, who ...
Stoutenburg, Adrien
(1916-1982) US poet and author of books for children and the Young Adult audience, who also wrote as by Lace Kendall, with Barbara Ritchie as by Barbi Arden, and with Laura Nelson Baker as by Nelson Minier, her first of many tales being The Model Airplane Mystery (1943); though some of her work is fantasy, she published very little sf. Her one sf novel, the Young Adult Out There (1971), significantly ...
Miller, Russ
(? - ) US author of The Impossible Transplant (1972), a mildly pornographic sf tale in which Sex and medical experimentation are joined. [JC]
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 ...