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Adam Chamberlain (born 8 January 1972) is an English author based in London. He was awarded the internal Shell/ The Economist Writing Prize in 2003 for his essay "Beyond Nature," an investigation of mankind's relationship with the natural world, and later lectured on the contents of that essay. [1] He has since published short fiction in addition to work on plays and screenplays. Columbia & Britannia , an alternate history anthology Adam Chamberlain edited with Brian A. Dixon, [2] was nominated for the 2010 Sidewise Award for Alternate History. [3] [4] Chamberlain and Dixon are also the editors of Back to Frank Black (2012), a volume of original essays and interviews celebrating Chris Carter's Millennium . [5] [6]

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References

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