White’s most popular creation was Sector General, a deep space medical installation that treats all the races of the galaxy. His last novel Double Contact appeared in 1999, the year he died. He began writing professionally in 1953, and published some 20 novels and five collections in a career than spanned nearly five decades. White was an Irish SF writer who’s not very well remembered today, but he was a big deal in SF circles in the 80 and 90s.

I’ve read very little by James White, and that’s a serious oversight. The Pleasant Profession of Robert A.The Aliens Among Us by James White. On motherhood and erasure: people-shaped holes, hollow characters and the illusion of impossible adventuresĬover of Wourism and Other Stories (Luna Press) In the Vanishers’ Palace: Dragon I and II Rave and Let Die: the SF and Fantasy of 2014 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers and the First World War John Clute, Peter Nicholls, David Langford and Graham Sleight The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 3rd edition

The Djinn's Wife ( Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2006) Introduction to Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek 'The Black Blood of the Dead' cover Interzone 116ĭarwinia (cover of Darwinia, Robert Charles Wilson) Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth ( Interzone 74)īrian Stableford (shorter version, Interzone 91/92) Keith Roberts (in collection Kaeti & Company)Ĭovers of The Difference Engine and Interzone 40

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy second radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (original radio series) BSFA Award for Best Fiction for Younger Readers.The current standard award categories are: The ceremonies are named after the year that the eligible works were published, despite the awards being given out in the next year. A media category was awarded from 1979 to 1992. The artists category became artwork in 1986 and a category for related non-fiction was added in 2002. The category for younger readers was added in 2021. Categories for short works and artists were added in 1980. The award originally included only a category for novels. More recently, members of the Eastercon convention have also been eligible to vote. Nominees and winners are chosen based on a vote of BSFA members. The BSFA Awards are literary awards presented annually since 1970 by the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) to honour works in the genre of science fiction. British science fiction awards BSFA AwardsĪwarded each year to the best Novel, Short fiction, Artwork and work of Non-Fiction published in the previous calendar year as voted for by the members of the British Science Fiction Association.

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