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Eric Brown


UK flag (1960 - 2023)

aka E M Brown

Eric Brown was born in Haworth, Yorkshire, 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 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 nineties and has subsequently won the British Science Fiction Award twice (for the short stories Hunting the Slarque in 1999 and Children of Winter in 2001).

 

Awards: BSFA (2002)  see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Historical Mystery, Young Adult Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult Fiction
 
Series
Virex
   1. New York Nights (2000)
   2. New York Blues (2002)
   3. New York Dreams (2004)
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Helix
   1. Helix (2007)
   2. Helix Wars (2012)
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Starship
   Starship Summer (2007)
   Starship Fall (2009)
   Starship Winter (2012)
   Starship Seasons (2013)
   Starship Coda (2016)
   Starship Spring (2016)
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Bengal Station Trilogy
   1. Necropath (2008)
   2. Xenopath (2009)
   3. Cosmopath (2009)
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Langham and Dupre Mystery
   1. Murder by the Book (2013)
   2. Murder at the Chase (2014)
   3. Murder at the Loch (2016)
   4. Murder Take Three (2017)
   5. Murder Takes a Turn (2018)
   6. Murder Served Cold (2018)
   7. Murder by Numbers (2020)
   8. Murder At Standing Stone Manor (2021)
   9. Murder Most Vile (2022)
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Binary/System
   1. Binary (2016)
   2. System (2017)
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Kon-tiki Quartet (with Keith Brooke)
   1. Dislocations (2018)
   2. Parasites (2018)
   3. Insights (2019)
   4. Iterations (2020)
   4.5. Kon Tiki Coda (2022)
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Novels
   Meridian Days (1992)
   Engineman (1994)
   Penumbra (1999)
   Twocking (2001)
   Firebug (2003)
   Bengal Station (2004)
   British Front (2005)
   Space Ace (2005)
   Crazy Love (2006)
   An Alien Ate Me for Breakfast (2007)
   Race Against Time (2008)
   Kethani (2008)
   Guilty? (2009)
   A Dinosaur Ate My Socks (2009)
   Guardians of the Phoenix (2010)
   The Kings of Eternity (2011)
   Serene Invasion (2013)
   Salvage (2013)
   Buying Time (2018) (as by E M Brown)
   Wormhole (2022) (with Keith Brooke)
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Collections
   The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories (1987)
   Blue Shifting (1995)
   Deep Future (2001)
   The Fall Of Tartarus (2004)
   Threshold Shift (2006)
   Infinities (2011) (with others)
   Ghostwriting (2012)
   The Angels of Life and Death (2012)
   Conflicts (2012) (with Neal Asher and Keith Brooke)
   Rites of Passage (2014)
   Microcosms (2017) (with Tony Ballantyne)
   The Spacetime Pit Plus Two (2018) (with Stephen Baxter)
   The Disciples of Apollo (2019)
   The Ice Garden and Other Stories (2019)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Parallax View (2000) (with Keith Brooke)
   A Writer's Life (2001)
   Approaching Omega (2004)
   The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne (2005)
   Gilbert and Edgar on Mars (2009)
   The Martian Simulacra (2018)
   Ace Doubles (2021)
   Enigma Season (2022) (with Keith Brooke)
   Enigma Exposed (2024) (with Keith Brooke)
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Chapter Books show
 
Books containing stories by Eric Brown
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To the Stars and Back (2024)
Stories in Honour of Eric Brown
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Best of British Science Fiction 2022 (2023)
(Best of British Science Fiction)
edited by
Donna Scott
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Shoreline of Infinity 35 (2023)
(Shoreline of Infinity, book 35)
edited by
Noel Chidwick

More books 


Awards
2002 BSFA Award for Best Short Story : The Children of Winter
2000 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction : Hunting the Slarque

Award nominations
2012 Philip K Dick Award (nominee) : Helix Wars
2008 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Starship Summer
2007 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Memory of Joy
2001 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : Destiny on Tartarus
1999 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : Vulpheous
1996 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Blue Shifting
1994 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Engineman
1991 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : The Phargean Effect
1991 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : The Death of Cassandra Quebec


Eric Brown recommends
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Europe In Autumn (2014)
(Europe, book 1)
Dave Hutchinson
"Europe in Autumn is the work of a consummate storyteller and combines great characters, a cracking central idea, and a plot that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Excellent."
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Lord of Stone (2001)
Keith Brooke
"Satisfying prose ... well realised and visualised characters ... powerful and vivid portrayal of the conditions of war."

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