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Nick Mamatas

(b.1972)

Nick Mamatas was born on Long Island, New York and attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, New School University, and Western Connecticut State University. He currently lives in California, in the Bay Area.

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery

Novels

   Move Under Ground (2004)
   Under My Roof (2006)
   Sensation (2011)
   The Damned Highway (2011) (with Brian Keene)
   Bullettime (2012)
   Love Is the Law (2013)
   The Last Weekend (2014)
   I Am Providence (2016)
   Sabbath (2019)
   The Second Shooter (2021)

Collections

   3000 MPH in Every Direction At Once (2003)
   The Urban Bizarre (2004) (with Michael Hemmingson and Tim Pratt)
   Cthulhu Senryu (poems) (2006)
   You Might Sleep . . . (2009)
   Shades of Blue and Gray (2013) (with Laird Barron and Albert E Cowdrey)
   The Nickronomicon (2014)
   The People's Republic of Everything (2018)

Novellas and Short Stories

Northern Gothic (2001)
Secret Identities (2022)

Anthologies edited

   Spicy Slipstream Stories (2008) (with Jay Lake)
   Haunted Legends (2010) (with Ellen Datlow)
   The Future is Japanese (2012) (with Masumi Washington)
   Phantasm Japan: Fantasies Light and Dark, From and About Japan (2014) (with Masumi Washington)
   Hanzai Japan (2015) (with Masumi Washington)
   Mixed Up (2017) (with Molly Tanzer)
   Wonder and Glory Forever (2020)

Anthology series

Clarkesworld Anthology (with Sean Wallace)
1. Realms (2008)
2. Realms 2 (2010)

Series contributed to

Tor.Com Original
Farewell Performance (2011)

Outspoken Authors
26. The Planetbreaker's Son (2021)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Nick Mamatas

Winter in the City (2024)
A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction
edited by
Anna Koon and R B Wood

The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 2 (2024)
(Big Book of Cyberpunk, book 2)
edited by
Jared Shurin

Weird World War: China (2024)
edited by
Sean Patrick Hazlett

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Award nominations

	2016 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Hanzai Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan
	2013 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Arbeitskraft
	2013 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : The Future is Japanese
	2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology (nominee) : Haunted Legends
	2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (nominee) : The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft
	2005 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Move Under Ground
	2004 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel (nominee) : Move Under Ground
	2001 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (nominee) : Northern Gothic

Nick Mamatas recommends

Set My Heart on Fire (2024)
Izumi Suzuki
"Best known for her short science fiction, Izumi Suzuki's posthumous novel is a unique and thrilling tale of life and music in Japan's 1970s demimonde."

In the Mad Mountains (2024)
Joe R Lansdale
"Here's Lovecraft's trick: he uses polyphony, many voices, to build his narrative case for the existence of cosmic squids whistling in the dark. Here is Lansdale's trick: doing it better, with a wider array of voices, including those of Poe and Twain and the classic American folk tale and his own Texas noir sensibility. This collection is a box of cursed yet delicious chocolates. Take a bite of every one!"

Ruin (2022)
Cara Hoffman
"If there is such a thing as 'anarchist fiction, ' it must be fiction that breaks all the rules of time and space, of realism and the fantastic, of fact and feelings. RUIN is true, exciting, anarchist fiction."

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