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Matthew Hughes


Canada (b.1949)

aka Matt Hughes

Matthew Hughes is a Canadian author who now lives in Britain, where he has taken up a secondary career as a housesitter while continuing to write science fiction under the name Matthew Hughes, crime fiction as Matt Hughes and media tie-ins as Hugh Matthews. Prior to his work in fiction, he was a freelance speechwriter for corporate executives and politicians in British Columbia.
 


Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
 
New and upcoming books
August 2024

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Margolyam
 
Series
Archonate
   1. Fools Errant (1994)
   2. Fool Me Twice (2001)
   3. Black Brillion (2004)
   Template (2008)
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Filidor Vesh
   Gullible's Travels (omnibus) (2001)
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Tale of Henghis Hapthorn
   1. Majestrum (2006)
   2. The Spiral Labyrinth (2007)
   3. Hespira (2008)
     aka Hespria
   4. 9 Tales of Henghis Hapthorn (2013)
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Luff Imbry
   1. Quartet and Triptych (2010)
   The Other (2011)
   2. The Yellow Cabochon (2012)
   The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories (2013)
   3. Of Whimsies and Noubles (2014)
   4. Epiphanies (2016)
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Hell and Back Trilogy
   1. The Damned Busters (2011)
   2. Costume Not included (2011)
   3. Hell to Pay (2013)
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Novels
   Downshift (1997) (as by Matt Hughes)
   The Commons (2007)
   The Compleat Guth Bandar (2014)
   Paroxysm (2019)
   Forays of a Fat Man (2019)
   A God in Chains (2019)
   What the Wind Brings (2019)
   Barbarians of the Beyond (2021)
   Baldemar (2022)
   Ghost Dreams (2022)
   The Ghost-Wrangler (2023)
   Modie (2023)
   A God in Hiding (2023)
   The One (2024)
   Margolyam (2024)
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Collections
   The Gist Hunter and Other Stories (2005)
   Devil or Angel and Other Stories (2015)
   9 Tales of Raffalon (2017)
   Welcome to Pacific City (2018) (with others)
   Mixed Bag (2022)
   Cascor (2023)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Books containing stories by Matthew Hughes
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Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 171 (2024)
August 2024
(Lightspeed Magazine, book 171)
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Black Cat Weekly #48 (2022)
(Black Cat Weekly, book 48)
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Black Cat Weekly #30 (2022)
(Black Cat Weekly, book 30)

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Award nominations
2014 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Ugly Duckling
2014 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : And Then Some
2011 Philip K Dick Award (nominee) : The Other
2011 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Hespira
2008 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Helper and His Hero
2008 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Spiral Labyrinth
2007 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Majestrum
2006 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Gist Hunter and Other Stories
2005 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Black Brillion
2005 Aurora Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Black Brillion


Matthew Hughes recommends
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Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom (2017)
(Retropolis, book 1)
Bradley W Schenck
"...a madcap mash-up of retro-sf, full of fearless heroes and heroines dashing about like Flash Gordon meets the Keystone Cops."

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