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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 ...
Logan, Michael
(1970- ) Scottish journalist and author who is of sf interest for Apocalypse Cow (2012), a gonzo exercise in comic Equipoise in which it is discovered that an infected British cow, which is in fact a bovine Zombie, has escaped slaughter; chaos soon churns the Near Future up. [JC]
Clifford, John
Working name of UK author John Clifford Bayliss (1919-2008), the young protagonists of whose Atlantis Adventure (1958) discover the eponymous Lost World in an oceanic trench in the Caribbean Sea, where they discover ancient relics, sea Monsters and Robots; unfortunately, their experimental nuclear submarine breaches the walls keeping the ocean at bay, though the youths make their escape. ...
Yandro
US Fanzine. 259 issues 1953-1986; edited from Indiana by Robert and Juanita Coulson, the last two issues by Robert Coulson alone; last issue not distributed until 1991. Originally published as Eisfa, Yandro was one of the longest-running large fanzines. Its contents, in the normal tradition, were not restricted to sf but included regular columns, articles, reviews and letters. Yandro won the 1965 ...
Foster, W Bert
(1869-1929) US author who specialized in the Dime Novel and several of whose Western tales were made into silent films; his sf of most interest – like "At Land's End" (May-November 1901 Argosy), a Near Future tale in which the Arctic is explored by airplane; and "When Time Slipped a Cog" (January-May 1905 All-Story), which combines ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...