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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 ...
Galt, John
(1779-1839) Scottish developer, social critic and author, active in the latter capacity from around 1805; mostly in the UK and Canada from 1804 to 1834. Most of his fiction is nonfantastic, and set in his native Ayrshire along the north-west coast of Scotland; some of these tales, like The Spaewife: A Tale of the Scottish Chronicles (1823 3vols), contain some supernatural elements. "The Star of Destiny" (in The Autobiography of John Galt 1833 2vols) concerns an ...
de Graeff, Allen
Pseudonym of Albert Paul Blaustein (1921-1994), professor of law at Rutgers from 1955, who as De Graeff edited Human, and Other Beings (anth 1963) with Groff Conklin. Blaustein also edited without credit three anthologies with his friend Basil Davenport [see Checklist]. [PN]
Bonfils, Robert
(1922-2018) US artist who trained at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Institute of Chicago. Following army service in World War Two he became active as a commercial illustrator from the mid-1950s. The vigorous, pulpish paintings of this early period appeared on many US paperbacks including Sex novels from Merit Books, which led to his becoming art director and anonymous cover creator for Earl ...
Mills, Samantha
(?- ) US author of speculative fiction who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Gestational Cycle of Flies in a Cupboard" in LampLight for March 2018. Her work has since appeared in several publications, including Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Uncanny. "Rabbit Test" (November/December 2022 ...
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 ...