About the author

Canadian author Geoff Ryman has won 14 awards for his stories and ten books, many of which are science fiction.

His novel Air (2005), won a John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the James W .Tiptree Memorial Award, the Sunburst Award and the British Science Fiction Association Award. Most recently his novelette Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy) (2006) has been nominated for the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award.

Much of his work is based on travels to Cambodia. The first of these The Unconquered Country (1986) was winner of the World Fantasy Award and British Science Fiction Association Award. His novel The King's Last Song (2006) was set both in the Angkor Wat era and the time after Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

His other mainstream fiction includes Was (1992), a novel about the American West viewed through the history of The Wizard of Oz which has been performed as a play and a musical in the US.

His interactive web novel 253: a novel for the Internet in Seven Cars and a Crash, in which 253 people sit on a London tube and are each described in 253 words, won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award for best novel not published in hardback. The published Print Remix of the same novel (1998) is his most popular book.

As well as being an author Geoff helped lead the UK government onto the web, starting a web design team at the Central Office of Information in 1994. He also led the teams that designed the first official British Monarchy and 10 Downing Street websites, and until recently worked on the UK government's flagship website www.direct.gov.uk.

He is currently at work on a new historical novel set in the United States before the Civil War.

Url: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/newwriting/about/geoffryman/

Geoff Ryman

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.^] He is openly gay.

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. 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.

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)

· The King's Last Song (2006 UK, 2008 US)

Awards

British Science Fiction Award

· The Unconquered Country (1986)

· Air (2005)

· World Fantasy Award

· The Unconquered Country (1986)

Arthur C. Clarke Award

· The Child Garden (1989)

· Air (2005)

Campbell Award

· The Child Garden (1989)

· Philip K. Dick Award

· 253

James Tiptree, Jr. Award

· Air (2005)

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