Eric Brown is a British science fiction

Science fiction

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 author.

Biography

Eric Brown was born in Haworth

Haworth

Haworth is a rural village in the City of Bradford metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is located amongst the Pennines, southwest of Keighley and west of Bradford. The surrounding areas include Oakworth and Oxenhope...

, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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, in May 1960, and began writing in 1975. In the 1980s he travelled extensively throughout Greece and Asia (some of his novels are set in India). His first publication was in 1982, when his play for children, Noel's Ark, appeared.

His career took off in the late eighties with a succession of short stories in Interzone

Interzone (magazine)

Interzone is an award-winning British fantasy and science fiction magazine. Published since 1982, Interzone is the eighth longest-running science fiction magazine in history and the longest-running British SF magazine...

 and other publications. His story The Time-Lapsed Man won the Interzone readers' poll for the most admired story of 1988, and an Eastercon

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 short text award in 1995. He was voted the Best New European SF writer of the Year

European Science Fiction Society

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 in the early nineties and has subsequently won the British Science Fiction Award

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 twice (for the short stories Hunting the Slarque in 1999 and Children of Winter in 2001). He should not be confused with Eric J. Brown, the co-author of The Effective CIO, a technical book on Information Technology.

He has publicly admired the science-fiction writing of Michael G. Coney

Michael G. Coney

Michael Greatrex Coney was a British science fiction writer who spent the later half of his life in Canada. Born in Birmingham, England on September 28, 1932, he moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 1972...

, Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg

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, Richard Paul Russo

Richard Paul Russo

Richard Paul Russo is an American science fiction writer.He attended the Clarion Workshop in 1983; his first story, "Firebird Suite", appeared in Amazing Stories in 1981 and his first novel, Inner Eclipse, was published in 1988. His second novel, Subterranean Gallery, won the Philip K. Dick Award...

 and Robert Charles Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.Wilson was born in the United States in California, but grew up near Toronto, Ontario. Apart from another short period in the early 1970s spent in Whittier, California, he has lived most of his life in Canada, and in 2007 he...

, amongst others.

Novels

• Meridian Days. London: Pan, 1992 (paper). ISBN 0-330-32287-7
• Engineman. London: Pan, 1994 (paper). ISBN 0-330-33043-8
• Penumbra. London: Millennium, 1999 (paper). ISBN 1-85798-592-3
• the Virex trilogy
  • New York Nights. London: Gollancz, 2000. ISBN 0-575-06872-8
  • New York Blues. London: Gollancz, 2001. ISBN 0-575-06873-6
  • New York Dreams. London: Gollancz, 2004 (paper). ISBN 0-575-07494-9
• Bengal Station. Waterville, ME: Five Star Books, 2004. ISBN 1-59414-212-2
• Helix. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2007 (paper). ISBN 978-1-84416-472-1
• Kéthani. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2008 (paper). ISBN 978-1-84416-473-8
• Bengal Station
  • Necropath. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2009 (paper). ISBN 978-1-84416-649-7
  • Xenopath. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper). ISBN 978-1-84416-742-5
  • Cosmopath. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper). ISBN 978-1-84416-832-3
• Engineman. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper). ISBN 978-1-907519-42-0
• Guardians of the Phoenix. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper). ISBN 978-1-907519-14-7
• The Kings of Eternity. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2011 (paper). ISBN 978-1-907519-71-0

Novellas

• A Writer's Life. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2001. ISBN 1-902880-21-8
• Approaching Omega. Tolworth, Surrey: Telos Publishing, 2005. ISBN 1903889995
• The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2005. ISBN 1-904619-35-5
• Starship Summer. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-905834-49-5
• Gilbert and Edgar on Mars. Hornsea: PS Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-906301-67-5
• Starship Fall. Harrogate: NewCon Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-907069-02-4

Collections

• The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories. London: Pan, 1989 (paper). ISBN 0-330-31366-5
• Blue Shifting. London: Pan, 1995 (paper). ISBN 0-330-33590-1
• Parallax View, with Keith Brooke
  Keith Brooke
  Keith Brooke is a science fiction author, editor, web publisher and anthologist from Essex, England. He is the founder and editor of the infinity plus webzine. He also writes children's fiction under the name Nick Gifford.- Biography and publishing history :...
  
  . Mountain Ash, Wales: Sarob Press, 2000. ISBN 1-902309-12-X
• Deep Future. Canton, OH: Cosmos Books, 2001. ISBN 1-58715-441-2
• The Fall of Tartarus. London: Gollancz, 2005 (paper). ISBN 0-575-07618-6
• Threshold Shift. Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon Press, 2006. ISBN 1-930846-43-6
• Parallax View, with Keith Brooke
  Keith Brooke
  Keith Brooke is a science fiction author, editor, web publisher and anthologist from Essex, England. He is the founder and editor of the infinity plus webzine. He also writes children's fiction under the name Nick Gifford.- Biography and publishing history :...
  
  . Stafford: Immanion Press, 2007 (paper). ISBN 978-1-904853-42-8

Children's Books

• The Web
  • Untouchable. London: Dolphin, 1997 (paper). ISBN 1-85881-426-X
  • Walkabout. London: Dolphin, 1999 (paper). ISBN 1-85881-643-2
• Twocking. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2002 (paper). ISBN 1-84299-042-X
• Firebug. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2003 (paper). ISBN 1-84299-103-5
• British Front. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2005 (paper). ISBN 1-84299-287-2
• Space Ace. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2005 (paper). ISBN 1-84299-294-5
• Crazy Love. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2006 (paper). ISBN 1-84299-367-4
• Revenge (Most Wanted). Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2007 (paper). ISBN 978-1-84299-500-6

External resources

• Eric Brown's official website
• Eric Brown's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online
• Infinity Plus has a short profile of Eric Brown, as well as an interview conducted by Keith Brooke
  Keith Brooke
  Keith Brooke is a science fiction author, editor, web publisher and anthologist from Essex, England. He is the founder and editor of the infinity plus webzine. He also writes children's fiction under the name Nick Gifford.- Biography and publishing history :...
  
  and an earlier conversation between the two, and Brooke's introduction to Brown's collection Deep Future.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/eric-brown/