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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 ...
Kacvinsky, Katie
(? - ) US author whose work has been restricted to the Young Adult market, with an emphasis on teenage romances; in the Maddie sequence beginning with Awaken (2011), this pattern is integrated with some smoothness into an sf world: a Near Future California whose Dystopian nature is sensed by the young ...
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space
Videogame (2002). Digital Eel (DE). Designed by Richard Carlson, Iikka Keränen. Platforms: Win (2002); Mac (2003); Phone (2004). / Strange Adventures is an Independent Game of space exploration, much influenced by Voyage of the B.S.M. Pandora (1981) but also suggestive of such early Space Sims as ...
Bowers, John
(? - ) US author, most of whose Westerns have been Space Operas, all assembled in series; the first of these is The Fighter Queen Saga beginning with A Vow to Sophia (2009). The most sustained is the Nick Walker, United Federation Marshall sequence beginning with Sirian Summer (2011), a Planetary Romance set on the ...
Crilley, Mark
(1965- ) US creator of the Comic Akiko (1995-current), and of the Akiko series of Young Adult or younger sf adventures, usually in interstellar Space Opera venues lightly spoofed, based on the comic, beginning with Akiko on the Planet Smoo (2000). Crilley has a modest, comical touch with storyline, though he has not seriously stretched himself or ...
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 ...