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Simon Brown


Australia (b.1956)

Simon Brown is an Australian Science Fiction writer. He originally trained as a journalist and worked for a range of Australian Government Departments, including the Australian Electoral Commission and the NSW Railways Department. He wrote science fiction short stories for many years and some of these have been collected in Cannibals in the Fine Light (1998). A second collection of Iliad-themed stories, Troy, was published in 2006. He is a member of the Australian Skeptics and edited Skeptical - A handbook of pseudoscience and the paranormal in 1989. He was also an editor of Argos, the journal of the Canberra Skeptics. He is married, and has two children.
 


Genres: Fantasy
 
Series
Keys of Power
   1. Inheritance (2000)
   2. Fire and Sword (2001)
   3. Sovereign (2002)
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Chronicles of Kydan
   1. Empire's Daughter (2005)
   2. Rival's Son (2005)
   3. Daughter of Independence (2007)
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Novels
   Privateer (1996)
   Winter (1997)
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Collections
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Books containing stories by Simon Brown
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Dreaming Again (2008)
Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction
(Dreaming Down-Under, book 2)
edited by
Jack Dann

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Awards
2008 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story : The Empire
2008 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novella : The Empire
2003 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story : Love is a Stone
1999 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story : Atrax

Award nominations
2007 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story (nominee) : Lonely as Life
2006 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Leviathan
2006 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story (nominee) : Leviathan
2005 Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette (nominee) : Water Babies
2003 Ditmar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Sovereign
1998 Ditmar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Winter
1997 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Winter
1996 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story (nominee) : The Mark of Thetis
1996 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Privateer


Simon Brown recommends
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The Grinding House (2005)
Kaaron Warren
"Kaaron Warren's voice is clear, original and sharp as a surgeon's scalpel."
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The Stone Mage and the Sea (2002)
(Books of the Change, book 1)
Sean Williams
"A wonderful, magical fantasy set in a landscape that is both eerily familiar and strangely alien."

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