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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 ...
Lippincott, David
(1924-1984) US advertising executive, composer and author whose Near-Future political Satire E Pluribus Bang! (1970) finds the US President involved in the murder of a Secret Service agent he finds in bed with his wife in a story that climaxes on a South Pacific Island where the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance is solved. Tremor Violet (1975) is a ...
Bed-Sitting Room, The
Film (1969). Oscar Lewenstein/United Artists. Director Richard Lester. Cast includes Peter Cook, Michael Hordern, Roy Kinnear, Arthur Lowe, Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham and Mona Washbourne. Written by John Antrobus from the play by Antrobus and Milligan. 91 minutes. Colour. / The Bed-sitting Room is a Fabulation, a ...
Caine, Hall
(1853-1931) UK playwright and author whose novels sold enormously in the late nineteenth century, but were almost forgotten by his death; he was a friend of Bram Stoker, who dedicated Dracula (1897) with a reference, in Manx, to his extremely short stature. The Mahdi, or Love and Race (1894) depicts a Near-Future uprising in Morocco at the behest of the eponymous leader of the faithful. ...
de Graeff, Allen
Pseudonym of Albert Paul Blaustein (1921-1994), professor of law at Rutgers from 1955, who as De Graeff edited Human, and Other Beings (anth 1963) with Groff Conklin. Blaustein also edited without credit three anthologies with his friend Basil Davenport [see Checklist]. [PN]
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 ...