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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 ...
Fantastic [comic]
US Comic (1952). Two issues (numbered #8 and #9). Youthful Magazines. Artists include Harry Harrison, Henry Kiefer, Steve Kirkel and Vince Napoli. Four strips per issue, plus a two-page article ("Mental Telepathy – Does It Exist?") in #8 and a text story in #9. / The numbering follows Captain Science, and issue #8 opens with the final Captain Science story: crashing on an ...
Ma Boyong
(1980- ) Chinese author whose narratives walk an entertaining line between fiction and fact, such as Chudian de Diguo ["The Empire of Electric Shocks"] (2012), a nonfiction account of the adoption of the telegraph, published by a university press, which nevertheless has a sensationalist verve and clear-cut parallels with the rise of the modern Internet. Many of his books are presented as fanciful ...
Warde, Reginald
(1878-? ) US author of a Lost Race novel, A Daughter of Indra (1925) anonymous, set in India; the god Indra is the deva of rain, lighting, thunder. [JC]
Rowland, Donald S
(1928- ) UK author of a very large number of pseudonymous works, relatively few of them sf; most were for Robert Hale Limited. For that firm (or for the highly similar house of Gresham) his Space Operas under his own name begin with Despot in Space (1973), which with Master of Space (1974) forms the Professor Condor sequence whose titular ...
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 ...