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Rich Larson



Rich Larson was born in Galmi, Niger, has studied in Rhode Island and worked in the south of Spain, and now lives in Ottawa, Canada. Since he began writing in 2011, he's sold over a hundred stories, the majority of them speculative fiction published in magazines like Asimov's, Analog, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, and Tor.com. His work appears in numerous Year's Best anthologies and has been translated into Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, French and Italian.

Annex, was his debut novel and first book of The Violet Wars trilogy.  Besides writing, he enjoys travelling, learning languages, playing soccer, watching basketball, shooting pool, and dancing salsa and kizomba.
 

Awards: Eugie (2023)  see all

Genres: Science Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
September 2024

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The Sky Didn't Load Today and Other Glitches
(Shacklebound Books Anthologies and Collections)
Series
Violet Wars
   1. Annex (2018)
   2. Ymir (2022)
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Collections
   Tomorrow Factory (2018)
   Bourbon Penn 30 (2023) (with others)
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Books containing stories by Rich Larson
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The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth 2 (2024)
(Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth, book 2)
edited by
Allan Kaster
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Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Two (2024)
(Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, book 2)
edited by
Stephen Kotowych

More books 


Awards
2023 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction : Quandary Aminu vs The Butterfly Man

Award nominations
2024 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction (nominee) : Even If Such Ways Are Bad
2022 Philip K Dick Award (nominee) : Ymir
2019 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Annex


Rich Larson recommends
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Breakable Things (2022)
Cassandra Khaw
"A delicious bowl of razor blades. With coiled prose and whetted instinct, Khaw's stories put a finger on the dark pulse of being human."
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Innate Magic (2021)
(Marrowbone Spells, book 1)
Shannon Fay
"Shannon Fay’s debut is a delight…just like its quick-witted cast of characters, underneath all the glamour Innate Magic has a big beating heart and serious guts."

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