Brian Francis Slattery

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Brian Francis Slattery
Occupation Novelist, journalist
NationalityAmerican
GenreFiction
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www.bfslattery.com

Brian Francis Slattery is an American writer and an editor at the New Haven Review . He has published three novels, Spaceman Blues (Tor, 2007), Liberation (Tor, 2008), and Lost Everything (Tor, 2012).

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Spaceman Blues was nominated for best novel by both the Lambda Literary Awards and the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards . [1] The editors of Amazon.com named Liberation the best science fiction/fantasy book of 2008, saying it "combined the serious and the satirical in creating an unforgettable image of a future America beset by the collapse of the dollar and the specter of a new form of slavery." [2]

Slattery plays the fiddle and the banjo, and he lives outside New Haven, Connecticut with his family. [3]

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Serial fiction

Short fiction

Awards and honors

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References

  1. See list of nominees for Lambda Literary Awards, 2007 Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror and Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, 2008 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel
  2. See Amazon.com's Omnivoracious Blog
  3. Slattery, B.F., Liberation, (Tor 2008), p. 303.
  4. John DeNardo (March 30, 2013). "WINNER: 2013 Philip K. Dick Award". SF Signal . Archived from the original on April 7, 2013. Retrieved March 31, 2013.