Niall Harrison

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Niall Harrison
Born1980 (age 4243)
England, United Kingdom
Occupation Writer, editor
Nationality British
Genre Science fiction
Website
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Niall Sidney Harrison is a British medical writer and science fiction editor, critic and publisher. He was a judge of the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2006 and 2007 and Guest of Honour at Eastercon 2023.

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Biography

Harrison attended Reading Blue Coat School [ citation needed ] and read biochemistry at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1998 to 2002. He currently lives in Newcastle and works as a medical writer. [1] He is co-chair of the ACCORD Steering Committee, which is developing a guideline to improve the reporting of biomedical studies that use consensus methodologies. [2]

Science Fiction

Between 2006 and 2010, Harrison was editor of Vector – the magazine of the British Science Fiction Association – as well as writing Torque Control, Vector's editorial blog. Between 2007 and 2010, he was senior reviews editor for Strange Horizons ; in 2010 he became editor-in-chief, a position he served in until stepping down in 2017. [3] As a critic, his work has appeared in Interzone , Foundation and The New York Review of Science Fiction as well as Vector and Strange Horizons. He is the publisher of Briardene Books where he also blogs. [4]

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References

  1. Harrison's webpage, Accessed 11 May 2008.
  2. BMC, Accessed 28 September 2022.
  3. Harrison, Niall (3 April 2017). "Moving On". Strange Horizons . Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  4. On Briardene, Accessed 2 May 2023.