Eric Brown (writer)

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Eric Brown (24 May 1960 – 21 March 2023) was a British science fiction author and The Guardian critic.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Biography

Eric Brown was born in Haworth, Yorkshire, in May 1960,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and began writing in 1975. In the 1980s he travelled extensively throughout Greece and Asia (some of his novels are set in India).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His first publication was in 1982, when his play for children Noel's Ark appeared.

His career took off in the late 1980s with a succession of short stories in the magazine Interzone and other publications. His story "The Time-Lapsed Man" won the Interzone readers' poll for the most admired story of 1988, and an Eastercon short text award in 1995. He was voted the Best New European SF writer of the Year in the early 1990s and subsequently won the BSFA Award twice (for the short stories "Hunting the Slarque" in 1999 and "Children of Winter" in 2001).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Brown publicly admired the science fiction writing of Michael G. Coney,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Robert Silverberg, Richard Paul Russo and Robert Charles Wilson,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> amongst others.

Brown died from sepsis on 21 March 2023, at the age of 62.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Bibliography

Novels

Novellas

  • A Writer's Life. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2001. Template:ISBN
  • Approaching Omega. Tolworth, Surrey: Telos Publishing, 2005. Template:ISBN
  • The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2005. Template:ISBN
  • Gilbert and Edgar on Mars. Hornsea: PS Publishing, 2009. Template:ISBN
  • Starship
  • The Telemass Quartet
    • Famadihana on Fomalhaut IV. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2014. Template:ISBN
    • Sacrifice on Spica III. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2014. Template:ISBN
    • Reunion on Alpha Reticuli II. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2016. Template:ISBN
    • Exalted on Bellatrix 1. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2017. Template:ISBN
    • Telemass Coda. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2019. Template:ISBN
  • The Kon-tiki Quartet, with Keith Brooke

Collections

  • The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories. London: Pan, 1990 (paper). Template:ISBN
  • Blue Shifting. London: Pan, 1995 (paper). Template:ISBN
  • Parallax View, with Keith Brooke. Mountain Ash, Wales: Sarob Press, 2000. Template:ISBN
  • Deep Future. Canton, OH: Cosmos Books, 2001. Template:ISBN
  • The Fall of Tartarus. London: Gollancz, 2005 (paper). Template:ISBN
  • Threshold Shift. Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon Press, 2006. Template:ISBN
  • Parallax View,<ref>New edition: it includes a new novella, 'In Transit', written with Keith Brooke, and drops the two solo Eric Brown stories of the first edition.</ref> with Keith Brooke. Stafford: Immanion Press, 2007 (paper). Template:ISBN
  • Salvage. Infinity Plus Books, 2013 (paper).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Starship Seasons. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2013. Template:ISBN - A collection of the first four Starship novellas.

Children's books

  • The Web
  • Twocking. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2002 (paper). Template:ISBN
  • Firebug. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2003 (paper). Template:ISBN
  • British Front. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2005 (paper). Template:ISBN
  • Space Ace. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2005 (paper). Template:ISBN
  • Crazy Love. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2006 (paper). Template:ISBN
  • Revenge (Most Wanted). Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2007 (paper). Template:ISBN

References

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External resources

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