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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 ...
Savage, Juanita
(? -? ) UK author of romances published in the 1920s, some of them highly flavoured; of sf interest is The City of Desire (1926), a Lost Race tale set in a mysterious City accessed through Underground passages through which stumbles a young woman, daughter of an explorer searching for his companion who has been lost for two decades, and falls in love with ...
Beatty, Paul
(1962- ) US poet and author whose fictions comprise a deeply Satirical and hilarious anatomy of "Post-Racial America", a land where DWB (Driving While Black) is not a technical offense. The astronomically popular poet who narrates The White Boy Shuffle (1996) – his first collection, Watermelanin, has sold 126,000,000 copies – copes with an absurd but recognizable California (his ...
Young, Moira
(1959- ) Canadian singer, actor and author, moderately active in the 1970s as writer and actor; in the UK for some years. She is of sf interest for the Dust Lands sequence beginning with the Young Adult Blood Red Road (2011), set in a distant Far Future Ruined Earth venue, the action moving from badlands typical of the sf ...
Chan, Grace
(? - ) Malaysian medical doctor and author, for some time resident in Australia, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Mark" in Verge 2019: Uncanny (anth 2019) edited by Stephen Downes, Calvin Fung and Amaryllis Gacioppo. In the Dystopian Near Future Melbourne of her first novel, Every Version of You (2022), a City ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...