Paul Claiborne Park (born October 1, 1954, in

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) is an American

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and

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. He teaches a course in reading and writing science fiction at

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. He has also taught at the

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writing workshop and the

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and was an instructor at

in 2011.

Career

Park appeared on the American science fiction scene in 1987 and quickly established himself as a writer of polished, if often grim, literary science fiction. His first work was the ''Starbridge Chronicles'' trilogy, set on a world with generations-long seasons much like

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'' trilogy. His critically acclaimed novels have since dealt with colonialism on alien worlds (''Coelestis''), Biblical (''Three Marys'') and

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(''The Gospel of Corax'') legends, a parallel world where magic works (''A Princess of Roumania'' and its sequels, ''The Tourmaline'', ''The White Tyger'' and ''The Hidden World''), and other topics. He has published short stories in ''

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'', '' Interzone'' and other magazines, along with anthology series including ''Postscripts'' and ''

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''. In 2010 his short story "The Persistence of Memory, or This Space for Sale" was nominated for a

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; and his novella "Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance" was nominated for a 2010 Nebula Award.

Bibliography

Novels

*The Starbridge Chronicles **''Soldiers of Paradise''. New York: Arbor House, 1987. **''Sugar Rain''. New York: Morrow, 1989. **''The Cult of Loving Kindness''. New York: Morrow, 1991. * ''Coelestis'' (vt US ''Celestis'', 1995). London: HarperCollins, 1993, * '' The Gospel of Corax''. New York: Soho Press, 1996. * ''Three Marys''. Canton, OH: Cosmos Books, 2003. * A Princess of Roumania **''A Princess of Roumania''. New York: Tor, 2005. **''The Tourmaline''. New York: Tor, 2006. **''The White Tyger''. New York: Tor, 2007. **''The Hidden World''. New York: Tor, 2008. * ''All Those Vanished Engines''. New York: Tor, 2014. ;As by Paulina Claiborne: * ''The Rose of Sarifal''. Wizards of the Coast, Forgotten Realms, 2012.

Short fiction

;Collections * ''If Lions Could Speak'', Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, April 2002. * ''Other Stories'', Hornsea: PS Publishing, 2015. ;StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted.

References

External links

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Interviews

*Gevers, Nick (April 2006)

Infinity Plus. *Johnson, Greg L. (September 2002)

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