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Andrew M. Butler
Andrew M. Butler (1950-) is a British academic who teaches film, media and cultural studies at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is a former editor of ''Vector'', the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association, and was membership secretary of the Science Fiction Foundation. He is a former Arthur C. Clarke Award judge and is now a member of the Serendip Foundation which administers the award. He has published widely on science fiction and, less often, fantasy, in journals such as ''Foundation'', ''Science Fiction Studies'', ''Vector'' and The Lion and the Unicorn. His interests include Philip K. Dick, Terry Pratchett, Jeff Noon, Iain Banks, Ken MacLeod, Christopher Priest and Philip Pullman. An article for ''Science Fiction Studies'', "Thirteen ways of looking at the British Boom" won the SFRA Pioneer Award in 2004. ''Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature'', co-edited with Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn was nominated for a Hugo Award The Hugo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canterbury Christ Church University
Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) is a Public university, public research university located in Canterbury, Kent, England. Founded as a Church of England college for teacher training in 1962, it was granted university status in 2005. Canterbury Christ Church University is a member of the Cathedrals Group (officially the Council of Church Universities and Colleges or CCUC), and of MillionPlus, the Association for Modern Universities in the UK. History Establishment Canterbury Christ Church College (CCCC) was founded in 1962 by the Church of England in order to meet the needs of church schools at a time of teacher shortage. Classes were originally held in the priory next to St Martin's Church, Canterbury, St Martin's Church. The founding principal was Frederic Mason. In 1968, the first-degree programme, the Bachelor of Education, was established as a one-year extension to the Certificate in Education. In 1976, the university launched its first non-teaching degree, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken MacLeod
Kenneth Macrae MacLeod (born 2 August 1954) is a Scottish science fiction writer. His novels ''The Sky Road'' and '' The Night Sessions'' won the BSFA Award. MacLeod's novels have been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Campbell Memorial awards for best novel on multiple occasions. In 2024 MacLeod was one of the Guests of Honour at the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow. A techno-utopianist, MacLeod's work makes frequent use of libertarian socialist themes; he is a three-time winner of the libertarian Prometheus Award. He sits on the advisory board of the Edinburgh Science Festival. Biography MacLeod was born in Stornoway, Scotland in 1954. He graduated from University of Glasgow with a degree in zoology in 1976 and worked as a computer programmer and wrote a masters thesis on biomechanics. He was a Trotskyist activist in the 1970s and early 1980s MacLeod is opposed to Scottish independence. Personal life Married with two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction Critics
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Science Fiction Academics
Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which study the physical world, and the social sciences, which study individuals and societies. While referred to as the formal sciences, the study of logic, mathematics, and theoretical computer science are typically regarded as separate because they rely on deductive reasoning instead of the scientific method as their main methodology. Meanwhile, applied sciences are disciplines that use scientific knowledge for practical purposes, such as engineering and medicine. The history of science spans the majority of the historical record, with the earliest identifiable predecessors to modern science dating to the Bronze Age in Ancient Egypt, Egypt and Mesopotamia (). Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped the Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Literary Critics
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Hugo Award
The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and chosen by its members. The award is administered by the Worldcon#World Science Fiction Society, World Science Fiction Society. It is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine ''Amazing Stories''. Hugos were first given in 1953, at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention, and have been awarded every year since 1955. In 2010, Wired (magazine), ''Wired'' called the Hugo "the premier award in the science fiction genre", while ''The Guardian'' has called it the most important science fiction award alongside the Nebula Award. The awards originally covered seven categories, but have expanded to seventeen categories of written and dramatic works over the years. The winners receive a trophy consisting of a stylized rocket ship on a base. The design of the tro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farah Mendlesohn
Farah Jane Mendlesohn (born 27 July 1968) is a British academic historian, writer on speculative fiction, and active member of science fiction fandom. Mendlesohn is best-known for their 2008 book ''Rhetorics of Fantasy'', which classifies fantasy literature into four modes based on how the fantastic enters the story. Their work as editor includes the ''Cambridge Companions'' to science fiction and fantasy, collaborations with Edward James. The science fiction volume won a Hugo Award in 2005. Mendlesohn is also known for books on the history of fantasy, including '' Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction'', co-written with Michael Levy. It was the first work to trace the genre's 500-year history and won the World Fantasy Award in 2017. Mendlesohn's academic positions have included a professorship at Anglia Ruskin University. They have served as editor and chair of the science fiction journal '' Foundation'', and as the president of the International Association for the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward James (historian)
Edward Frederick James (born 14 May 1947) is a British scholar of medieval history and science fiction. He is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at University College, Dublin. James received the Hugo Award for his non-fiction book ''The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction'' (co-edited with Farah Mendlesohn), and the Pilgrim Award for lifetime contribution to SF and fantasy scholarship. Biography James was born in Solihull, Warwickshire. He attended the Solihull School and read Modern History at St John's College, Oxford (1965-1968). He completed postgraduate work at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, 1968-1970, supervised by Professor Christopher Hawkes. James was awarded D.Phil in 1975, for a thesis entitled ‘South-West Gaul from the fifth to the eighth century: the contribution of archaeology’. He began teaching in 1970 at University College, Dublin. He was a lecturer at the Department of Medieval History in University College Dublin from 1970 to 1978. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SFRA Pioneer Award
The Pioneer Award is given by the Science Fiction Research Association to the writer or writers of the best critical essay-length work of the year. In 2019 it was renamed the SFRA Innovative Research Award. Winners: *1990: Veronica Hollinger, "The Vampire and the Alien: Variations on the Outsider" *1991: H. Bruce Franklin, "The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy" *1992: Istvan Csiscery-Ronay Jr., "The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haraway" *1993: No Award *1994: Larry McCaffery and Takayuki Tatsumi, "Towards the Theoretical Frontiers of Fiction: From Metafiction and Cyberpunk through Avant-Pop" *1995: Roger Luckhurst, "The Many Deaths of Science Fiction: A Polemic" *1996: Brian Stableford, "How Should a Science Fiction Story End?" *1997: John Moore, "Shifting Frontiers: Cyberpunk and the American South" *1998: I. F. Clarke, "Future—War Fiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900" *1999: Carl Freedman, "Kubrick's 2001 and the Possibility of a Science-Fiction Cinem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Pullman
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy ''His Dark Materials''. The first volume, ''Northern Lights'' (1995), won the Carnegie Medal(Carnegie Winner 1995) . Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. . Retrieved 9 July 2012. and later the " Carnegie of Carnegies". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
