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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 ...
Muir, Willa
(1890-1970) Scottish poet, translator and author, most of whose translations, like those of Franz Kafka, were done in collaboration with her husband Edwin Muir [who see for further details]; she also published some solo translations as by Agnes Neill Scott. It has been plausibly argued that she was the senior figure in the Muirs' career as translators, certainly on grounds of technical facility. On the basis of their ...
Park, Paul
(1954- ) US author, educated in the land of his birth, peripatetic for most of the 1980s, but resident again in the USA at about the time he began publishing sf with Soldiers of Paradise (1987), the first volume of The Starbridge Chronicles, which continues with Sugar Rain (1989) – assembled with the first volume as The Sugar Festival (omni 1989) – and is completed by The Cult of Loving Kindness ...
Cayea, John
(? - ) US illustrator, seemingly active only from around 1970 to around 1981, his first cover being for Eando Binder's The Night of the Saucers (1971) from Belmont Books. Almost all of his following work was for Doubleday and Company, beginning with Jacqueline Lichtenberg's House of Zeor (1974). A Cayea cover soon became easy to recognize, often ...
Koren, Brittiany A
(? - ) Editor of a number of Original Anthologies, always in collaboration with Martin H Greenberg. The first of these is Single White Vampire Seeks Same (anth 2001) with Greenberg, comprising Urban Fantasy tales [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] with a lonely-hearts classified ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...