Eric Brown (born 24 May 1960) is a British

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author.

Biography

Eric Brown was born in

Haworth Haworth () is a village in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, in the Pennines, south-west of Keighley, west of Bradford and east of Colne in Lancashire. The surrounding areas include Oakworth and Oxenhope. Nearby villages includ ...

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, in May 1960, and began writing in 1975. In the 1980s he travelled extensively throughout Greece and Asia (some of his novels are set in India). His first publication was in 1982, when his play for children ''Noel's Ark'' appeared. His career took off in the late 1980s with a succession of short stories in the magazine ''Interzone'' and other publications. His story "The Time-Lapsed Man" won the ''Interzone'' readers' poll for the most admired story of 1988, and an

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short text award in 1995. He was voted the Best New European SF writer of the Year in the early 1990s and has subsequently won the

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twice (for the short stories "Hunting the Slarque" in 1999 and "Children of Winter" in 2001). He has publicly admired the science fiction writing of

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, Richard Paul Russo and

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, amongst others.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Meridian Days''. London: Pan, 1992 (paper). * ''Engineman''. London: Pan, 1994 (paper). * ''Penumbra''. London: Millennium, 1999 (paper). * the Virex trilogy ** ''New York Nights''. London: Gollancz, 2000. ** ''New York Blues''. London: Gollancz, 2001. ** ''New York Dreams''. London: Gollancz, 2004 (paper). * ''Bengal Station''. Waterville, ME: Five Star Books, 2004. * ''Helix''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2007 (paper). * ''Kéthani''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2008 (paper). * Bengal Station ** ''Necropath''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2009 (paper). ** ''Xenopath''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper). ** ''Cosmopath''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper). * ''Engineman''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper). * ''Guardians of the Phoenix''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper). * ''The Kings of Eternity''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2011 (paper). * ''Weird Space: The Devil's Nebula''. Abaddon, 2012 (paper). * ''Helix Wars''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2012 (paper). * ''Serene Invasion''. Abaddon, 2013 (paper). * ''Weird Space: Satan's Reach''. Abaddon, 2013 (paper). * ''Weird Space: The Baba Yaga''. Abaddon, 2015 (paper).

Novellas

* ''A Writer's Life''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2001. * ''Approaching Omega''. Tolworth, Surrey: Telos Publishing, 2005. * ''The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2005. * ''Gilbert and Edgar on Mars''. Hornsea: PS Publishing, 2009. * Starship ** ''Starship Summer''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2007. ** ''Starship Fall''. Harrogate: NewCon Press, 2009. ** ''Starship Winter''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2012. ** ''Starship Spring''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2012. ** ''Starship Coda''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2016. * The Telemass Quartet ** ''Famadihana on Fomalhaut IV''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2014. ** ''Sacrifice on Spica III''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2014. ** ''Reunion on Alpha Reticuli II''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2016. ** ''Exalted on Bellatrix 1''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2017. ** ''Telemass Coda''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2019. * The Kon-tiki Quartet, with

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** ''Dislocations''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2018. ** ''Parasites''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2018. ** ''Insights''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2019.

Collections

* ''The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories''. London: Pan, 1990 (paper). * ''Blue Shifting''. London: Pan, 1995 (paper). * ''Parallax View'', with

. Mountain Ash, Wales: Sarob Press, 2000. * ''Deep Future''. Canton, OH: Cosmos Books, 2001. * ''The Fall of Tartarus''. London: Gollancz, 2005 (paper). * ''Threshold Shift''. Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon Press, 2006. * ''Parallax View'', with

. Stafford: Immanion Press, 2007 (paper). * ''Salvage''. Infinity Plus Books, 2013 (paper). * ''Starship Seasons''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2013. - A collection of the first four Starship novellas.

Children's Books

* The Web ** ''Untouchable''. London: Dolphin, 1997 (paper). ** ''Walkabout''. London: Dolphin, 1999 (paper). * ''Twocking''. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2002 (paper). * ''Firebug''. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2003 (paper). * ''British Front''. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2005 (paper). * ''Space Ace''. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2005 (paper). * ''Crazy Love''. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2006 (paper). * ''Revenge (Most Wanted)''. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2007 (paper).

References

External resources

Official website
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Infinity Plus ''Infinity Plus'' (sometimes stylized as ''infinity plus'' and ''infinityplus'') was a science fiction webzine active from 1997 to 2007,

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