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On Behalf Of Sawyer, Andy Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 11:34 AM To: sfra-l; iafa-l@wiz.cath.vt.edu Cc: 'Arthur Evans' Subject: [SFRA-L] IF Clarke dies NOv 5th. I heard this yesterday from Ian Clarke’s wife Margaret. I only met him a couple of times but he was a nice guy and I really admired his work on future-war fictions : this is just a note I cobbled together – I.F. Clarke, bibliographer and scholar of future-war fictions died on November 5th. According to his wife Margaret, he survived an operation to amputate his left leg in August, but was not strong enough to fight off various complications that followed, and spent his last few weeks in a nearby nursing home. Born 1918, he worked in Intelligence during World War Two and studied at Liverpool University, where his DA and MA theses were on “the Tale of the Future”. He taught at the University of Strathclyde until 1964. Among his achievements were editor of the bibliography Tale of the future, from the beginning to the present day (Library Association, 1961, 3rd. Rev ed 1978), Voices Prophesying War (O .U. P. 1966, rev.1992, two volumes of “Future-war” stories from Liverpool University Press (1995, 1996), and the 8-volume British Future Fiction (Chatto, 2001). His latest work was (with his wife Margaret), a translation of Emile Souvestre’s 1846 Le Monde tel qu’il sera (The World as it Shall Be) which was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2004. In 1974 he was awarded the Pilgrim Award for distinguished contribution to the study of sf by the Science Fiction Research Association. -------------------------------- Andy Sawyer Science Fiction Librarian Special Collections and Archives University of Liverpool Library PO Box 123, Liverpool L69 3DA, UK. Course Director, MA in Science Fiction Studies. http://www.liv.ac.uk/english/ma_courses/post_ma_sf.htm Reviews Editor: Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction http://www.sf-foundation.org/publications/foundation.html The Science Fiction Hub: http://www.sfhub.ac.uk/ The Science Fiction Foundation: http://www.sf-foundation.org/ "... there is no higher life form than a librarian." THE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD: Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen, and Ian Stewart, p. 10.
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