Geoff Ryman
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Geoffrey Charles Ryman (born 1951) is a writer of science fiction, fantasy and surrealistic or "slipstream" fiction.
Ryman was born in Canada and moved to the United States at age 11. He earned degrees in History and English at UCLA, then moved to England, where he has lived most of his life.[1] He is openly gay.[1]
He was guest of honour at Novacon in 1989 and has twice been a guest speaker at Microcon, in 1994 and in 2004.
Ryman currently lectures in Creative Writing for University of Manchester's English Department.[2] His most recent full-length novel, The King's Last Song, is set in Cambodia, both at the time of Angkorean emperor Jayavarman VII, and in the present period.
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[edit] Works
- The Warrior Who Carried Life (1985)
- The Unconquered Country, novella (1986)
- The Child Garden (1989)
- Was (1992) (finalist for the World Fantasy Award 1993)
- 253, or Tube Theatre, first published as hypertext fiction on a Web site (print version published 1998)
- Lust (2001)
- Air (2005) (short list for the Nebula Award)
- Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy) (2006), (Hugo Award for Best Novelette nominee 2007)
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[edit] References
- ^ a b “Geoff Ryman: The Mundane Fantastic”, Locus, January 2006, <http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/01Ryman.html>
- ^ “Academic Staff”, University of Manchester, <http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/englishamericanstudies/academicstaff/>. Retrieved on 2007-10-30
[edit] External links
- Geoff Ryman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Comment on the victims of the 7 July 2005 London Bombings
- Interview with Geoff Ryman conducted by Kit Reed at Infinity Plus, discussing his novel Air and the Mundane SF movement.
- Compilation of reviews of Ryman's book The King's Last Song
- Biog page at the University of Manchester
