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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 ...
Connolly, Cyril
(1903-1974) UK author, editor and influential critic, perhaps best known for his examination of obstacles to the writing of masterpieces in the partly autobiographical Enemies of Promise (1938; rev 1949) and for his highly mannered assemblage of aphorisms, commonplace-book quotes and sometimes surreal meditations in The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle (1944; rev 1945) as by Palinurus. He edited the UK literary magazine ...
Fusion Fragment
Canadian Online Magazine, first series low-paying, published by Apodis Publishing, Ottawa, and edited by Cavan Terrill. Its first issue was in March 2007 and it has appeared on roughly a quarterly schedule since then. It is one of the few webzines which states categorically that it only wants science fiction, and has no interest in fantasy or horror, although its sf tastes tend to the extreme, with preferences for Cyberpunk and ...
Duchamp, L Timmel
(1950- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "O's Story" in Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction (anth 1989) edited by Susann Sturgis, and whose career initially concentrated on short fiction, some of which was assembled as Love's Body, Dancing in Time (coll 2004). Her work is articulately Feminist, vatic, energized, though her style seems at times overstressed. Through ...
Grant, Anthony
Possible pseudonym of UK author Marion Stapylton Pares (1914-2004); author of a routine sf adventure for Robert Hale Limited, The Mutant (1980). She is also credited with a number of nonfiction titles as by Judith Campbell. [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 ...