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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 ...
Dagnol, Jules N
Pseudonym of US author John Franklin Coasten Langdon (1913-1980), who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Man Who Could Smell Land" for Mast Magazine in 1947; his sf novel, The Sandoval Transmissions (1980), is a routine adventure. [SH/JC] see also: Robert Hale Limited. /
Secret of the Telegian
Japanese film (1960). Original title Densō Ningen. Toho. Directed by Jun Fukuda. Written by Shinichi Sekizawa. Cast includes Akihiko Hirata, Seizaburo Kawazu, Tadao Nakamaru, Takamaru Sasaki and Koji Tsuruta. 85 minutes. Colour. / Hearing of a murder in an amusement park's Cave of Horror, Kirioka (Tsuruta) – a reporter from the science desk of a Tokyo newspaper – decides to investigate. Finding a piece of wire in the cave he takes it ...
Barnes, Colin F
(? - ) UK author whose first series, the Techxorcist sequence beginning with Artificial Evil (2012) is set in an artificial world-dominating domed City (see Keep); renamed, the essential overall story seems to continue in the Code Breakers sequence beginning with Code Breakers: Prequel (2014 chap) and Alpha (2014), placed in the same ...
Ezell, Kacey
(1977- ) US pilot in the United States Air Force and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Citizens" as by Kacey Grannis in the Military SF anthology Citizens (anth 2010) edited by John Ringo and Brian M Thomsen. Her first novel Over the Night Horizon (2016) with Nico Murray is a tale of Vampires; ...
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 ...