Dominic Green (born 1967) is a British writer of

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. His

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" The Clockwork Atom Bomb" was nominated for a 2005

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. Green is best known for his stories published in '' Interzone'' during the 1990s and 2000s (decade), many of which have been reprinted in various Year's Best anthologies. ''Interzone'' published a special issue devoted to Green and his stories in July 2009.

Biography

Green has lived for much of his life in

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and

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. He graduated in English from

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and works in

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. He is married to the painter Allyson X. Green and until recently taught

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part-time. In 2010, Fingerpress brought out Green's first published novel, ''Smallworld''. In 2011, he electronically published a young adult SF novel, ''Saucerers and Gondoliers'', the first of a series set in and around the fictional United States of the Zodiac, a secret set of colonies in space involved in a struggle for independence from Britain and the United States, as well as political and military intrigue involving the former Soviet colonies and alien/Nazi symbiotes. The series is names after its two primary characters, Anthony Stevens and Cleopatra Shakespeare, two UFO-abducted teenagers from Northampton.

Bibliography

Short stories

* "Moving Mysteriously" (''Interzone'', June 1996, and translated as "Les Mystères de la Sainte-Propulsion", ''Invasions 99'', Étoiles Vives, 1999) * "Evertrue Carnadine" (''Interzone'', October 1996) * "Everywhen" (''Interzone'', April 1997) * "The Cozumel Incident" (''Interzone'', July 1997) * "King's Chamber" (in the anthology ''Decalog 5: Wonders'', 1997) * "Queen of the Hill" (''Interzone'', April 1998) * "That Thing Over There" (''Interzone'' June 1998. Reprinted in ''

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'', 1999) * "Something Chronic" (''Interzone'', September 2000) * "Rude Elves and Dread Norse Reindeer" (''Interzone'', December 2000) * "Queen of Hearts" (''Interzone'', November 2001) * "Blue Water, Grey Death" (''Interzone'', January 2002) * "News from Hilaria" (''Interzone'', May 2002) * "Send Me A Mentagram" (''Interzone'' November 2003. Reprinted in '' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection'', 2004) * "The Rule of Terror" (''Interzone'', May 2003) * "Three Lions on the Armband" (''Interzone'', Spring 2004) * "Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Lost World" (BBC Cult website, 2004) * " The Clockwork Atom Bomb" (''Interzone'', May 2005 - nominated for a Hugo Award in the Best Short Story category and winner of the 2005 Interzone Readers' Poll. Reprinted in '' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection''.) * "Butterfly Bomb", "Coat of Many Colours" and "Glister" (''Interzone'', July–August 2009) * "Shining Armor" (''The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction'', Volume 2, ed. George Mann, reprinted in Year's Best SF); featured in Locus's recommended reading list

Novels and series

* The Space Opera on Mount Ararat series: ** Book 1 - ''Smallworld'' (2010) ** Book 2 - ''Littlestar'' (2011) * The Ant and Cleo series: ** Book 1 - ''Saucerers and Gondoliers'' (2013) ** Book 2 - ''Sister Ships and Alastair'' (2013) ** Book 3 - ''There Ain't Gonna Be No World War Three'' (2013) ** Book 4 - ''Destination Alpha Four'' (2013) ** Book 5 - ''Dog on the Highway'' (2013) ** Book 6 - ''At the Goings Down of the Suns'' (2013) ** Book 7 - ''Time Held Me Green and Dying'' (2014) ** Book 8 - ''The Moon a Ghostly Galleon'' (2015) ** Book 9 - ''Today's Stars for Dinosaurus'' (2016) ** Book 10 - ''Make Omicron Eridani Great Again'' (2018) ** Book 11 - ''On A Small World West Of Wonder'' (2019) ** Book 12 - ''We Have Been in Hell Before'' (2022) * ''Warlords of Llantatis'' (2014) * ''Elder Shepherd'' (2016) * ''Cowboys & Dinosaurs'' (2016) * The Marshal College series: ** Book 1 - Phil and the Death Machine (2017) * The Big Sis series: ** Book 1 - ''Twinkle, Twinkle, Collapsar'' (2020)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Dominic English science fiction writers 1967 births Living people Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge People from Bakewell English male novelists