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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 ...
Jones, Margaret
(? - ) UK author and lecturer in human communication studies. In The Day They Put Humpty Together Again (1968; vt Transplant 1968) prosthetic-surgery techniques are used to wire an artist's head to a criminal's libidinous torso. Through the Budgerigar (1970) is a Satirical fantasy. [JC]
France
The history of France's relationship with sf is one of long flirtation, marked through the centuries by episodic outbursts of passion and, in recent times, by an increasing shift from authorship to readership, from the active to the passive role, as more and more people become avid consumers of the US/UK sf tradition. A few remarkable French writers of sf have emerged, but, although the 1970s were an active period for French sf, no truly indigenous school of writing has yet taken shape. / A ...
Smith, Andrew [2]
(1959- ) US teacher, journalist and author, mostly of fantasy tales for the Young Adult market, including the Equipoisal Marbury Lens sequence beginning with The Marbury Lens (2010), whose traumatized young protagonist gains sight of – or imagines he gains sight of – an Alternate World called Marbury, which both obsesses him and demands his ...
Adams, Glenda
(1939-2007) Australian author in USA and elsewhere from 1964 to 1990, whose first novel, Games of the Strong (1982), is a Near Future Dystopia whose female narrator and thematic concerns (the internalization of the colonial mentality; Imperialism in general; Feminism) associate her with authors like Doris Lessing and some of ...
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 ...