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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 ...
Sandlin, Tim
(1950- ) US screenwriter and author, most of whose work travels to comic extremities, though the Satire remains nonfantastic. Of sf interest is Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty (2007), set in Near Future California; it is 2023, and the real Drew Barrymore (1975- ), who is now governor, becomes involved in a dispute centred on an assisted-living centre, ...
Cox, Stephen
(? - ) US-born author, in UK from childhood, who is of sf interest for the Our Child sequence beginning with Our Child of the Stars (2018), set initially in the 1960s, after a meteor has devastated a New England village (see Disaster), leaving an Alien infant to be raised by a human family. The tale darkens momentarily when it seems that Earth may be plummeted into an ...
Atkinson-Keen, Susan
(? - ) Canadian geologist and author of Adventures of Broughton Bear sequence for younger children; her Young Adult Time Travel novel, Weekend in the Jurassic (1989), features Dinosaurs. [JC]
Rushton, William
(1937-1996) UK actor, cartoonist, editor, journalist and author who often wrote or drew as Willie Rushton. The influence of J B Morton is particularly clear in serial cartoon Satires like Brimstone Belcher (June 1960-March 1961 Liberal News), an influence which permeated the journal Private Eye, which Rushton co-founded in 1961. As actor and comic, he was a founding participant in the UK satirical ...
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 ...