Kain Massin is an Australian writer of
speculative fiction
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.
Biography
Massin is based in
Adelaide
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,
South Australia
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where he is a high school maths and science teacher.
He is also a member of the Blackwood Writers Group.
Massin's first work was published in 1998 with his short story "Escape from Stalingrad" which was featured in fourth edition of ''Harbinger''. "Escape from Stalingrad" was nominated for the
1999 Aurealis Award for best horror short story but lost to
Sean Williams and
Simon Brown's "
Atrax
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".
In 2008 Massin's first novel was published by
ABC Books
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, entitled ''
God for the Killing'', after he won the
2008 ABC Fiction Award which has a
A$10,000 prize and a publication deal for the novel.
Awards and nominations
Bibliography
Anthologies
;As editor
*''Tales from the Black Wood'' (2006, co-editor
)
Novels
*''
God for the Killing'' (2008)
Short stories
*"Escape from Stalingrad" (1998) in ''Harbinger'' #4
*"Wrong Dreaming" (2000) in ''
On Spec
''On Spec'' is a digest-sized, perfect-bound, Canadian quarterly magazine publishing stories and poetry in science fiction, fantasy, and allied genres broadly grouped under the "speculative fiction" umbrella.
History and profile
Based in Edmon ...
'' Fall 2000 (ed. Jena Snyder)
*"A Guide for the Grave-Robber" (2000) in ''
Altair
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'' #5 (ed. Robert N. Stephenson, Jim Deed, Andrew Collings)
References
;General
*
;Specific
External links
Official site
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21st-century Australian novelists
Australian male novelists
Australian male short story writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Australian short story writers
21st-century Australian male writers