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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 ...
Barker, Martin
(1946-2022), UK academic and scholar of media and cultural studies at the University of the West of England, the University of Sussex and (from 2001) Aberystwyth University, where in his last years he was professor emeritus. He began to publish studies of genre relevance with A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign (1984), which explored the religious and political machinations behind the titular scaremongering of 1949-1955 which led to a UK ...
Gregory, Jackson
(1882-1943) US author of Westerns, two of which have some sf interest: Daughter of the Sun (1921) as by Quién Sabe is a Lost Race tale set close enough to Mexico for one of Montezuma's secret heirs to cause an erotic ruckus; Ru the Conqueror (1933) is Prehistoric SF, also mildly erotized. [JC]
Robbins, Trina
(1938-2024) US clothes designer, Comics illustrator and writer, editor, journalist and author, much of whose work in comics was for titles – from the early one-shot It Ain't Me Babe (1970), which she co-created – produced exclusively by women (see Feminism). Her responsibility for a full issue of Wonder Woman in 1985, the first time a woman did this comic, was also a significant marker. ...
Filmfax
Letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema magazine. Printed on newsprint-quality paper until #127 and on glossy paper thereafter. Publisher and editor: Michael Stein. 1986-current. / One of the best sf and Horror Media Magazines of the later twentieth century, Filmfax has enjoyed a long run due in large part to high-quality content. Coverage has included vintage sf films such as The ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...