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Stephen Dedman
Stephen Dedman at SwanCon 2007Born 1959
Adelaide, South AustraliaOccupation Writer, editor Nationality Australian Period 1977 to present Genres Science fiction, Dark fantasy
stephendedman.comStephen Dedman (born 1959 in Adelaide, South Australia)[1] is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels.
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Biography
Dedman's short stories have appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Year's Best SF, and The Best Australian Writing: A Fifty Year Collection.
Contributing as a story editor, Dedman is also one of the team members behind Borderlands, a tri-annual Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine published from Perth, Western Australia.
In 2007, he contributed to the Doctor Who short-story collection, Short Trips: Destination Prague.
Bibliography
Novels
- The Art of Arrow-Cutting (Tor, 1997)
- Shadows Bite (Tor, 2001) (sequel to The Art of Arrow-Cutting)
- Foreign Bodies (Tor, 1999)
- Shadowrun: A Fistful of Data (ROC, 2006).
Story collections
- The Lady of Situations (Ticonderoga Publications, 1999)
- Never Seen By Waking Eyes (Prime, 2005)
Anthology contributions
- Black Box e-anthology (Brimstone Press, 2008)
Non-fiction works
- Bone Hunters: On the Trail of the Dinosaurs (Omnibus, 1998).
Chapbooks
- The Dirty Little Unicorn (Self-published, 1987)
Short stories
- "The Lady of Situations" (1994) in Little Deaths (ed. Ellen Datlow)
- "Never Seen by Waking Eyes" (1996) in F&SF (ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
- "Schrödinger's catalyst". F&SF 93 (6). (Dec 1997).
- "A Walk-On Part in the War" (1998) in Dreaming Down-Under (ed. Jack Dann and Janeen Webb)
- "Honest Ghosts" (1999) in Gothic.net July 1999
- "A Sentiment Open to Doubt" (2000) in Ticonderoga Online May 2000
- "Probable Cause" (2001) in Orb Speculative Fiction #2 (ed. Sarah Endacott)
- "Wastelands" (2002) in Agog! Fantastic Fiction
- "Madly" (2003) in Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural (ed. Bill Congreve)
- "The Wind Shall Blow For Ever Mair" (2003) in Gathering the Bones (ed. Ramsey Campbell, Jack Dann, Dennis Etchison)
- "Twilight of the Idols" (2004) in Conqueror Fantastic (ed. Pamela Sargent)
- "Dead of Winter" (2006) in Weird Tales March–April 2006 (ed. George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer, John Gregory Betancourt)
- "Sleep no more". Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 41: 12–22. (2009).
Works edited
- Consensual (co-edited)
- Consensual: the Second Coming (co-edited)
- Consensual a trois. (co-edited)
- Borderlands Magazine
Awards
The Art of Arrow-Cutting was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in the category of Best First Novel. In 1998 Dedman's "A Walk-On Part in the War" won the 1998 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story.[2] In 2001 "The Devotee" tied for the win with Terry Dowling's "The Saltimbanques" of the 2001 Ditmar Award for best short story.[3] "Dead of Winter" won the 2006 Aurealis Award for best horror short story.[4] Dedman has also received over 30 nominations for his work in awards such as the Aurealis Awards, Ditmar Awards, Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, the Bram Stoker Awards, and the Locus Awards.[5]
References
- Specific
- ^ http://www.festivale.info/questions/stephendedman2.htm
- ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1999 Aurealis Awards". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 2010-04-02. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Aurealis1999.html. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
- ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2001 Ditmar Awards". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 2010-10-01. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Ditmar2001.html#shf. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
- ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2007 Aurealis Awards". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 2010-04-02. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Aurealis2007.html. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
- ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees". Locus Online. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit36.html#1278. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
- General
- Mike Ashley & William G. Contento. The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird and Horror Anthologies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995, p. 204
- Stephen Dedman official website bibliography
- Electricstory author bio
External links
- Bibliography
- Interview (2005)
- Teeth (Short Story), Clarkesworld Magazine
- Stephen Dedman answers The Usual Questions, Festivale Online Magazine
- Stephen Dedman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Categories:- Australian fantasy writers
- Australian horror writers
- Australian science fiction writers
- Australian short story writers
- Living people
- 1959 births
- Australian writer stubs
- Horror fiction stubs
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