Peter Friend (author)

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Peter Friend is a New Zealand born science fiction writer who won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for fiction three times. [1] His stories have been published in Asimov's Science Fiction, Aurealis, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and elsewhere.

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The stories he has won awards for are:

Short films

Peter has also won both the Hobbyist Category and Overall prizes at the 2007 Moviefest short film competition, for a 5-minute animated film entitled 'Monocular'.

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References

  1. Locus Index to SF awards Archived 2007-09-09 at the Wayback Machine