Stephen Dedman (born 1959) is an Australian author of

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and science fiction stories and novels.

Biography

Dedman's short stories have appeared in '' Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'', ''

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'', and ''The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection''. Contributing as a story editor, Dedman is also one of the team members behind Borderlands, a tri-annual Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine published between 2003-2009 from Perth, Western Australia. In 2007, he contributed to the ''

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'' short-story collection, '' Short Trips: Destination Prague''.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''The Art of Arrow-Cutting'' ( Tor Books, 1997) * ''Shadows Bite'' (Tor, 2001) (sequel to ''The Art of Arrow-Cutting'') * ''Foreign Bodies'' (Tor, 1999) * '' Shadowrun: A Fistful of Data'' (ROC, 2006). * '' Shadowrun: For a Few Nuyen More'' (Catalyst Game Labs) 2021

Story collections

* ''The Lady of Situations'' (

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, 1999) * ''Never Seen By Waking Eyes'' (Prime, 2005) * ''Charm, Strangeness, Mass and Spin'' (Norstrilia Press, 2022)

Anthology contributions

* '' Black Box e-anthology'' (

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, 2008)

Non-fiction works

* ''Bone Hunters: On the Trail of the Dinosaurs'' (Omnibus, 1998) * ''May the Armed Forces Be With You: The Relationship Between Science Fiction and the United States Military'' (McFarland) 2016

Chapbooks

* ''The Dirty Little Unicorn'' (Self-published, 1987)

Short stories

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'' (ed. Ellen Datlow) *"Never Seen by Waking Eyes" (1996) in '' F&SF'' (ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch) * *"

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" (1998) in '' Dreaming Down-Under'' (ed. Jack Dann and Janeen Webb) *"Honest Ghosts" (1999) in '' Gothic.net'' July 1999 *"A Sentiment Open to Doubt" (2000) in ''

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'' May 2000 *"Probable Cause" (2001) in ''

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'' *"Madly" (2003) in '' Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural'' (ed. Bill Congreve) *"The Wind Shall Blow For Ever Mair" (2003) in ''

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, Darrell Schweitzer, John Gregory Betancourt) * *"Empathy" (2008) in '' Exotic Gothic'' 2 (ed. Danel Olson) *"Wetwork" (2010) in '' Spells & Chrome'' (ed. Roc Books) *"Fall" (May 2012) in '' Exotic Gothic'' 4 (ed. Danel Olson) *"Large Friendly Letters" (2014) in ''

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, Edwina Harvey) *"From Whom All Blessings Flow" Asimov's April 1995

Works edited

* ''Consensual'' (co-edited) * ''Consensual: the Second Coming'' (co-edited) * ''Consensual a trois''. (co-edited) * ''Borderlands Magazine''

Awards

''The Art of Arrow-Cutting'' was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in the category of Best First Novel. In 1998 Dedman's "

" won the 1998 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story. In 2001 "The Devotee" tied for the win with Terry Dowling's "

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" of the 2001 Ditmar Award for best short story. " Dead of Winter" won the 2006 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. Dedman has also received over 30 nominations for his work in awards such as the Aurealis Awards, Ditmar Awards, Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, the Bram Stoker Awards, and the Locus Awards.

References

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. ''The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird and Horror Anthologies''. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995, p. 204
Stephen Dedman official website bibliography

Electricstory author bio

External links

(Short Story), Clarkesworld Magazine
Stephen Dedman answers The Usual Questions, Festivale Online Magazine
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dedman, Stephen Australian fantasy writers Australian horror writers Australian science fiction writers Australian male short story writers Living people 1959 births