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Peter Dickinson


(Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickenson)
UK flag (1927 - 2015)
Husband of Robin McKinley

Peter Dickinson lived in Hampshire with his second wife, author Robin McKinley. He wrote more than fifty novels for adults and young readers and won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Award twice, and his novel The Blue Hawk won The Guardian Award in 1975.
 

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Mystery
 
Series
Changes Trilogy
   1. The Weathermonger (1968)
   2. Heartsease (1969)
   3. The Devil's Children (1970)
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James Pibble
   1. The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest (1968)
     aka Skin Deep
   2. A Pride of Heroes (1969)

     aka Old English Peep Show

   3. The Seals (1970)

     aka The Sinful Stones

   4. Sleep and His Brother (1971)
   5. Lizard in the Cup (1972)
   6. One Foot in the Grave (1979)
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Kin
   Mana's Story (1998)
   Po's Story (1998)
   Noli's Story (1998)
   Suth's Story (1998)
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Ropemaker
   1. The Ropemaker (2001)
   2. Angel Isle (2006)
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Novels
   Emma Tupper's Diary (1970)
   The Dancing Bear (1972)
   Mandog (1972) (with Lois Lamplugh)
   The Gift (1973)
   The Green Gene (1973)
   The Iron Lion (1973)
   The Poison Oracle (1974)
   The Lively Dead (1975)
   The Blue Hawk (1976)
   Annerton Pit (1977)
   Walking Dead (1977)
   The Flight of Dragons (1979)
   Hepzibah (1980)
   A Summer in the Twenties (1981)
   The Seventh Raven (1981)
   The Last House Party (1982)
   Healer (1983)
   Hindsight (1983)
   Giant Cold (1983)
   Death of a Unicorn (1984)
   A Box of Nothing (1985)
   Tefuga (1986)
   Mole Hole (1987)
   Perfect Gallows (1987)
   Eva (1988)
   Merlin Dreams (1988)
   AK (1990)
   Play Dead (1991)
   A Bone from a Dry Sea (1993)
   Time and the Clockmice, Etcetera (1993)
   The Yellow Room Conspiracy (1994)
   Shadow of a Hero (1994)
   Chuck and Danielle (1996)
   Touch and Go (1999)
   Some Deaths before Dying (1999)
   The Tears of the Salamander (2003)
   The Gift Boat (2004)
     aka Inside Grandad
   In the Palace of the Khans (2013)
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Collections
   Chance, Luck, and Destiny (1975)
   City of Gold (1980)
   The Lion Tamer's Daughter (1997)
   Water (2002) (with Robin McKinley)
   The Weir (poems) (2007)
   Fire (2009) (with Robin McKinley)
   Earth and Air (2012)
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
MagicQuest
   5. Tulku (1979)
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Books containing stories by Peter Dickinson
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003)
(Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, book 16)
edited by
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
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The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12 (1986)
(Year's Best Fantasy Stories, book 12)
edited by
Arthur W Saha

More books 


Awards
1981 Carnegie Medal : City of Gold: And Other Stories from the Old Testament
1980 Carnegie Medal : Tulku
1969 CWA Gold Dagger : A Pride of Heroes
1968 CWA Gold Dagger : The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest

Award nominations
2002 Michael L. Printz Award (nominee) : The Ropemaker
1986 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Flight
1974 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : The Green Gene


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