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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 ...
Pierlot, Ciel
(? - ) US digital artist and author whose first novel, Bluebird (2022), is an adventure-oriented Space Opera set in an interstellar arena; the mercenary protagonist (see Military SF) must save her twin sister, a mission which may involve the return of a hidden artefact or Weapon or secret, though this may be avoided through the aid of her ...
Magidoff, Robert
(1905-1970) Russian-born US academic, possibly born Rubin Magidenko, Professor of Russian Literature at New York University 1961-1970. He edited (but did not translate) three sf Anthologies: Russian Science Fiction (anth 1964), Russian Science Fiction, 1968 (anth 1968) and Russian Science Fiction, 1969 (anth 1969). [PN]
Terry, Teri
Working name of French-born lawyer, optometrist and author Teresa Terry (? - ), mostly in Canada from infancy, in UK from 2004; the young protagonist of the Young Adult Slated sequence, comprising Slated (2012), Fractured (2013) and Shattered (2014), has suffered a Memory Edit at the hands of a tyrannical ...
Last of Us, The [tv]
US tv series (2023-current). Naughty Dog/Playstation Productions/Government of Alberta. Created, part directed and written by showrunners Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin. Other Season One directors include Ali Abbasi, Peter Hoar, Liza Johnson, Jeremy Webb, Jasmila Zbanic. Based on the Videogame The Last of Us (2013), designed by Druckmann and Bruce Straley. Cast includes Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey (all ten ...
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 ...