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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 ...
Bradwell, James
Pseudonym of US author Arthur William Charles Kent (1925-1998), which he used for two ties to the Television series Land of the Giants (1968-1970), about a group of humans cast by time-warp (see Timeslip) into a world whose inhabitants, of all sorts, are 12 times their size on Earth. His contributions were Land of the Giants: The Mean City (1969) and ...
Eidlitz, Walther
(1892-1976) Austrian poet and author of an sf novel, Zodiak (1930; trans Eric Sutton 1931), which takes a dim view of the glorification of technical progress, espousing instead a youthful ascent towards a higher world governed on Pax Aeronautica principles (see also Transportation). [JC]
Negrete, Javier
(1964- ) Spanish author, one of the best stylists in fantastic literature in Spanish. He has published seventeen fantasy and sf novels, one collection and barely a dozen short stories, in addition to some historical fiction books and historical essays. He has taken part in some important anthologies, such as Franco. Una historia alternativa ["Franco. An Alternative History"] (anth 2006) edited by Julián Díez and ...
Whiting, Sydney
(1820/1821-1875) UK barrister, poet and author whose Memoirs of a Stomach: Written by Himself, That All Who Eat May Read (1853; rev 1853; further rev 1855) as by "The Minister of the Interior", though seemingly spoofish, articulates issues of the relationship between imperial mind and digestive body in mid-nineteenth-century terms. Of more sf interest is Heliondé; Or, Adventures in the Sun (1854; rev 1855), whose protagonist, conveniently ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...