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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 ...
Harcourt, Glenn
(? - ) US author who collaborated with Carter Scholz (whom see for description) on his only sf publication, the novel Palimpsests (1984). [JC]
Barry, Kevin
(1969- ) Irish author who is of sf interest primarily for his first novel, the Near Future City of Bohane (2011), which is set in the low-tech Ireland of 2053, a place and time where Dystopian oppressions are loquaciously mocked and serviced and nullified by the gangs whose language (see Linguistics) very vividly represents a world near anarchic, though thriving ...
Chen, Mike
(? - ) US author whose first novel, Here and Now and Then (2019), focuses on the emotional travails of a Time Police agent suffering from Amnesia who must decide between his job and his new family after he is reconnected to his mission from the future. A Beginning at the End (2020), set in a bleak Near Future balkanized America after a ...
Huggins, James Byron
(1949- ) US author whose Cain (1997) edges beyond sf through the fact that the assassin resurrected by scientists is inhabited by a demon, though in the case of Hunter (1999) the Monster created by experiments in Genetic Engineering lacks this provenance. [JC]
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 ...