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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 ...
Lilo & Stitch
Animated film (2002). Walt Disney Animation Studios (see The Walt Disney Company). Directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois. Written by Sanders and DeBlois from an idea by Sanders. Cast includes Tia Carrere, Daveigh Chase and Sanders. 82 minutes. Colour. / Disney's first great film of the twenty-first century. Stitch (Sanders) is the product of illegal Genetic Engineering by a ...
Churchill, David
(? - ) UK author of Young Adult sf novels including It, Us, and the Others (1978), whose young protagonists discover an Alien underwater, and Not My World (1980). He may be the David Churchill credited with the teleplay for the 1986 four-part miniseries presentation of Mervyn Peake's Mr Pye (1953). [JC]
Slusser, George
(1939-2014) US academic, translator and critic, with a PhD in literature from Harvard, who also published as George Edgar Slusser and as George E Slusser. He was Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside, and Curator Emeritus of the J Lloyd Eaton Collection there; he was also Director of the Eaton Program for Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies, which is devoted to research. Slusser wrote and edited a ...
Hulbert, Archer Butler
(1873-1933) US academic, historian and author, whose Lost World tale, The Queen of Quelparte: A Story of Russian Intrigue in the Far East (1904), is set on the eponymous Island between Japan and China, where intrigues invoking ancient ways are required to save the land from imperial predators. [JC]
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 ...