Geoff Ryman
Geoff Ryman’s science fiction includes The Child Garden (1989: Arthur C. Clarke Award, John W. Campbell Memorial Award and British Science Fiction Association Award) and Air (2005), which won a John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the James W. Tiptree Memorial Award, the Sunburst Award and the British Science Fiction Association Award. His interactive web novel 253 won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award for best novel not published in hardback, and the published Print Remix of the same novel (1998) is his most popular book.
Much of his work is based on travels to Cambodia. The Unconquered Country (1986) won the World Fantasy Award and British Science Fiction Association Award, while The King’s Last Song (2006) was set both in the Angkor Wat era and the time after Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. His novelette Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy) (2006) has been nominated for the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award.
Geoff’s mainstream novel Was (1992) views the American West through the history of The Wizard of Oz, and he is currently at work on a new historical novel set in the US before the Civil War.
Website : http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/newwriting/about/geoffryman/
