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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 ...
Lunde, Maja
(1975- ) Norwegian screenwriter and author, whose first novel, the Young Adult Over grensen ["Across the Border"] (2012) was nonfantastic. She is of interest for the Klimakvartetten ["Climate Quartet"] series beginning with Bienes historie (2015; trans Diane Oatley as The History of Bees 2017) and followed by Blå ["Blue"] (2017; trans Diane ...
Bell, Derrick
(1930-2011) US lawyer, academic and author, a central figure in the creation of what became known as "critical race theory", the argument that racism – which as a Black lawyer he had been involved in combating – was so inherent in American society that apparent reductions in segregation and discrimination would be cosmetic. The basic institutional racism of America, he argued, would inevitably reassert itself to the advantage of the already advantaged. / Though he wrote ...
Herbert, Edward G
(1869-1938) UK author of Newaera: A Socialist Romance, with a Chapter on Vaccination (1910). This novel describes a socialist Utopia which is founded on an isolated Island, but tragically fails. [JC]
Hacke, Axel
(1956- ) German journalist – winner of several journalism awards – and author, active since 1981 and at book length since 1991. He is of borderline sf interest for Die kleine König Dezember (1993 chap; trans Rosemary Davidson as Little King December 2002 chap), a tale of reversed ageing (see Time in Reverse) in which the eponymous king is met as a shrinking ...
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 ...