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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 ...
Goble, Warwick
(1862-1943) UK artist, the foremost illustrator of sf in the pages of Pearson's Magazine and Pearson's Weekly 1896-1903. He contributed 66 illustrations to the latter's original serialization of The War of the Worlds (April-December 1897 Pearson's Weekly; 1898; with epilogue cut 1898) by H G Wells. Other work appeared in The ...
Lynch, Paul
(1977- ) Irish editor, journalist and author, most of whose fiction has dealt in nonfantastic terms with Irish history, focusing on issues – national identity; famine; enforced emigration – central to that history over the past two centuries. The influence of Cormac McCarthy is pervasive, as confirmed by an epigraph from The Crossing (1994) in Lynch's first novel of sf interest, the ...
Krepps, Robert W
(1919-1980) US author whose sf and fantasy work mostly appeared under the pseudonym Geoff St Reynard. As St Reynard he began publishing work of genre interest with "Wink Van Ripple" in Fantastic Adventures for December 1945, contributing frequently to that journal until its demise in 1953. Work published here included the first Usurpers tale, "The Usurpers" (January 1950 Fantastic Adventures), which was ...
Star Trek: Prodigy
US animated tv series (2021-current). Brothers Hageman Productions, CBS Eye Animation Productions, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Roddenberry Entertainment, Secret Hideout. Created by Kevin and Dan Hageman, based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry. Directors include Steve Ahn, Ben Hibon and Sung Shin. Writers include Julie Benson, Shawna Benson, Lisa Schultz Boyd, Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Nikhil S Jayaram, ...
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 ...