Simon Brown (born 1956 in Sydney, New South WalesAustlit – Simon Brown
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science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel univers ...

writer. He originally trained as a journalist and worked for a range of Australian Government Departments, including the

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and the NSW Railways Department. He wrote science fiction short stories for many years and some of these have been collected in ''Cannibals in the Fine Light'' (1998). A second collection of

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-themed stories, ''Troy'', was published in 2006. He is a member of the

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and edited ''Skeptical – A handbook of pseudoscience and the paranormal'' in 1989. He was also an editor of ''Argos'', the journal of the Canberra Skeptics. He won the 2009 short story division of the ''Aurealis Award'' for his story "The Empire" Brown, Charles N.
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Publications

Novels

* ''Privateer'',

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Australia 1996 * ''Winter'', HarperCollins Australia 1997 * ''Inheritance: Book 1 of the Keys of Power'', HarperCollins Australia, 2000 * ''Fire and Sword: Book 2 of the Keys of Power'', HarperCollins Australia, 2001 * ''Sovereign: Book 3 of the Keys of Power'', HarperCollins Australia, 2002 * ''Empire's Daughter: Book 1 of the Chronicles of Kydan'',

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Australia, 2004 * ''Rival's Son: Book 2 of the Chronicles of Kydan'', Pan MacMillan Australia, 2004 * ''Daughter of Independence: Book 3 of the Chronicles of Kydan'', Pan MacMillan Australia, 2005

Collections

* ''Cannibals of the Fine Light'',

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, April 1998 * ''Troy'',

, 2006

Selected short fiction

*"With Clouds at Our Feet" (1998) in ''

Dreaming Down-Under ''Dreaming Down-Under'' is a 1998 speculative fiction anthology edited by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb. Background ''Dreaming Down-Under'' was first published in Australia in November 1998 by Voyager Books in Paperback#Trade paperback, trade paperb ...

'' (ed.

Jack Dann Jack Dann (born February 15, 1945) is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-edit ...

Janeen Webb Janeen Webb (''née'' Pemberton) is an Australian writer, critic and editor, working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy. Biography The daughter of a Second World War Australian Army commando and salesman, Webb was brought up in ...

) *"Water Babies (novelette), Water Babies" (2004) in '' Agog! Smashing Stories'' (ed.

Cat Sparks Catriona (Cat) Sparks (born 11 September 1965, Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher. Publishing As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Spark ...

) *"Leviathan (short story), Leviathan" (2006) in ''Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005'' (ed.

Jonathan Strahan Jonathan Strahan (born 1964, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an editor and publisher of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a ...

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Other works

* ''Skeptical – A Handbook of pseudoscience and the paranormal'', Ed

Donald Laycock Donald Laycock (1936–1988) was an Australian linguist and anthropologist. He is best remembered for his work on the languages of Papua New Guinea. Biography He was a graduate of University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and later ...

, David Vernon,

Colin Groves Colin Peter Groves (24 June 1942 – 30 November 2017) was a British-Australian biologist and anthropologist. Groves was Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Education Born in Englan ...

, Simon Brown, Imagecraft, Canberra, 1989.

Awards

*"Atrax" (with Sean Williams)

Aurealis Award The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award. History The Aurealis Award was established in 1995 by ...

for Horror Short Fiction, 1999 *"Love is a Stone",

for Horror Short Fiction, 2003 *"The Empire"

for Science Fiction Short Fiction, 2008

External links

Simon Brown's Home Page

Review of ''Troy''
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Simon 1956 births Living people Australian fantasy writers Australian science fiction writers Writers from Sydney