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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 ...
Allhoff, Fred
Working name of Charles Frederick Allhoff (1904-1988), US journalist and author known in the sf field for Lightning in the Night (31 August-16 November 1940 Liberty; 1979), a Future War tale which, when serialized, caused considerable stir because of its defence of the arguments of General Billy Mitchell (1879-1936) about the primacy of air power in any future conflict; for its portrayal of a semi-defeated USA in 1945 as ...
Dank, Milton
(1920-2019) US historian, physicist and author, often on military matters, who collaborated with his daughter, Gloria Rand Dank, on the Galaxy Gang sequence for Young Adult readers. [JC]
Sheldon, Sidney
(1917-2007) US screenwriter and author, creator of the fantasy Television series I Dream of Jeannie (1965-1970) [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] and the made-for-television film Shadow on the Land (1968; vt United States: It Can't Happen Here), which is based on It Can't Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair ...
Pelot, Mayi
(1947-2016) Basque author, the first and perhaps the most prominent sf author to write in Basque. Biharko oroitzapenak (coll of linked stories 1985; trans Arrete Hidalgo as Memories of Tomorrow 2022) and Teleamarauna ["Television"] (1987) are set in various epochs of a shared Future History whose first significant moment – a nuclear disaster that came close to crippling Basque Country in 1992, some time before ...
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 ...