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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 ...
Carey, Diane
(1954- ) US author of some Gothic romances and historicals, mostly under her own name, though she has also written as by Lydia Gregory; married since 1979 to Greg Brodeur. As an sf writer, she has concentrated on Star Trek Ties, beginning with Dreadnought! (1986) and its direct sequel Battlestations! (1986) for the original series, and continuing to ...
Coppel, Alfred
Working name of US author (and wartime fighter pilot) Alfredo José de Araña-Marini y Coppel Jr (1921-2004) who also wrote as Robert Cham Gilman and Sol Galaxan (for one story only, 1953). He began publishing sf with "Age of Unreason" for Astounding in December 1947, and published a good deal of magazine fiction in the next decade, though he was in fact producing considerably more in other genres with such action novels as Hero Driver (1954). ...
Gold, Jerome
(1943- ) US anthropologist, publisher of Black Heron Press, and author, whose two Alternate History thrillers in the Inquisitor series, The Inquisitor (1991) and The Prisoner's Son: Homage to Anthony Burgess (1996), posit a hardscrabble Near Future destiny for the Pacific Rim states, which have been sold to Mexico. [JC]
Baker, Adam
(1969- ) UK author whose Near Future Outpost Universe sequence beginning with Outpost (2011) follows the actions of a mixed group of survivors of a worldwide Pandemic, a Zombie Apocalypse plague which transforms its victims into rampaging metallic Monsters. The cast, which has survived this Disaster in an ...
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 ...