The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation presented the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Awards at their Unleash Imagination event on November 8. (Note: This is a different honor than the literary Arthur C. Clarke Award.) INNOVATOR AWARD NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Represented by its … Continue reading
The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation has announced the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award winners. (Note: This is a different honor than the literary Arthur C. Clarke Award.) On November 16, the Clarke Foundation in Washington, D.C., will host Unleash Imagination, including these 2022 … Continue reading
Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice has won the 2014 Arthur C. Clarke Award. The news was announced at the SCI-FI LONDON Film Festival on May 1. Leckie received £2014 of prize money and a commemorative bookend. The selection was made by a … Continue reading
The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination is being created at UC San Diego (UCSD) by the University of California, San Diego and the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation. The Clarke Center will develop, catalyze and be a global resource … Continue reading
(1) ANGRY ROBOT BRINGS ON ECLIPSE OF STORYWISE. [Item by Anne Marble.] Angry Robot Books announced a one-week open submissions period that begins April 22, and several posts down in their thread they also said they would be using a … Continue reading
(1) IT WON A HUGO; DOES THAT HELP? What does James Davis Nicoll’s Young People Read Old SFF panel think of C.J. Cherryh’s “Cassandra”? July 2022’s entry in Young People Read Old Hugo Finalists is C. J. Cherryh’s 1979 “Cassandra”. C. J. … Continue reading
By John Hertz: I’m a known Jane Austen fan, so you’ll expect me to point out it’s her birthday. I gladly call her one of the greatest writers in the world — yes, along with Shakespeare and Lady Murasaki. Thanks … Continue reading
Last weekend, Vox Day set out to score a point for Infogalactic over the Wikipedia. Infogalactic is the rival online encyclopedia Day launched in October. …And finally, another example of how Infogalactic is fundamentally more accurate than Wikipedia due to the … Continue reading
(1) If you are fan who drinks, the newly reopened Clifton’s Cafeteria would like to tempt you with these two science fictional libations – (2) “Another Word: Chinese Science Fiction and Chinese Reality” by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu, in Clarkesworld, talks about … Continue reading
The astrological sign for those born this day, December 16, is the Rocket in the constellation of Hugo. 1917 – Arthur C. Clarke Four Hugo-nominated novels: A Fall of Moondust, Rendezvous with Rama (won 1984), The Fountains of Paradise (won … Continue reading