Dominic Green (science fiction writer)

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Dominic Green (born 1967) is a British writer of short science fiction. His short story "The Clockwork Atom Bomb" was nominated for a 2005 Hugo Award. Green is best known for his stories published in Interzone during the 1990s and 2000s, many of which have been reprinted in various Year's Best anthologies. Interzone published a special issue devoted to Green and his stories in July 2009. [1]

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Biography

Green has lived for much of his life in Bakewell and Northampton. He graduated in English from St Catharine's College, Cambridge and works in information technology. He is married to the painter Allyson X. Green and until recently taught Kung Fu part-time.

In 2010, Fingerpress brought out Green's first published novel, Smallworld. In 2011, he electronically published a young adult SF novel, Saucerers and Gondoliers, the first of a series set in and around the fictional United States of the Zodiac, a secret set of colonies in space involved in a struggle for independence from Britain and the United States, as well as political and military intrigue involving the former Soviet colonies and alien/Nazi symbiotes. The series is named after its two primary characters, Anthony Stevens and Cleopatra Shakespeare, two UFO-abducted teenagers from Northampton.

Bibliography

Short stories

Novels and series

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References

  1. ↑ Dominic Green Special Issue, Interzone , July–August 2009.
  2. ↑ Stapleford, Brian (2006). Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 54. ISBN   9781135923730.
  3. ↑ "Is Short Science Fiction Moving To Original Anthologies?". io9. January 6, 2009.
  4. ↑ "2008 Recommended Reading List". Locus Magazine. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
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