Damien Broderick

Damien Francis Broderick ( born April 22, 1944) is an Australian author of science fiction and popular science writing books. From the term virtual reality is sometimes said that he had been used for the first time in Broderick's science fiction novel The Judas Mandala.

Broderick is a carrier of a doctoral degree in literature at Deakin University in Australia, he wrote his dissertation on comparative semiotics in scientific, literary and science fiction textuality.

Damien Broderick lives in Melbourne, among others, and Lockhart, Texas. He is married to Barbara Lamar. He also works as a science fiction editor of the Australian popular science magazine Cosmos.

Work

Four of Broderick's novels have won the Ditmar Award (including the book transmitter, which has a separate price received as a non- science fiction works ). The first novel The Dreaming Dragons was the runner-up for the Campbell Award for Best Novel. In November 2003, Broderick received from the Australia Council for the Arts, a scholarship for two years (2004 and 2005) to write novels about the Technological Singularity. In 2005 he received the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

Broderick's best-known scholarly works are The Spike (1997, revised 2001), a scientific book about the technological singularity, and The Last Mortal Generation ( 1999), in which he extended over radical, but still writes juvenile life stages.

His novel The Hunger of Time (2004, with Rory Barnes ) was published as an e -book and print-on -demand. His recent studies, x, y, z, t: Dimensions of Science Fiction ( 2004) and Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the New Enlightenment (2005) have also been published as a book-on -Demand. The covers of The Hunger of Time and x, y, z, t: Dimensions of Science Fiction were designed by the Swedish transhumanist Anders Sandberg, as well as the anthology, Earth is but a star, in the Broderick summarizes various science fiction stories all deal with the distant future.

Among his more recent novels include Godplayers ( 2005), which was included in the annual list of recommended books of the journal locus, as well as K- Machines ( 2006), the Aurealis Award received for best science fiction novel 2007. In addition, one of the comic I Suppose a Root's Out of the Question? A Comedy of Bad Manners (2007) to which he wrote with Rory Barnes. With his wife, Barbara Lamar, he also wrote the science- fiction thriller Post Mortal Syndrome which was published in the journal Cosmos Released.

Broderick also wrote several plays, including both settings of his own works, as well as the other authors. His piece Schrödinger 's Dog, which was first broadcast in 1995, won the Prix Italia. The short story that resulted was chosen for Gardner Dozois Year's Best Science Fiction.

Bibliography

Novels

  • Sorcerer 's World ( 1970) revised and expanded: The Black Grail (1986 )
  • Revised version: The Dreaming (2001)
  • The Judas Mandala (1982, revised 2002)
  • Valencies (1983, with Rory Barnes )
  • Transmitters (1984 )
  • Striped Holes (1988 )
  • The Sea 's Furthest End ( 1993)
  • The White Abacus (1997)
  • Zones (1997, with Rory Barnes )
  • The Book of Revelation (1999, with Rory Barnes )
  • Transcension (2002, with Rory Barnes and Barbara Lamar )
  • The Hunger of Time (2003, with Rory Barnes )
  • Godplayers (2005)
  • K- Machines ( 2006)
  • I Suppose a Root's Out of the Question? A Comedy of Bad Manners (2006, with Rory Barnes )
  • Post Mortal Syndrome ( 2007, published in Cosmos magazine, with Barbara Lamar )

Children's Books

  • Jack and the Aliens ( 2002)
  • Jack and the Skyhook (2003)

Collections of short stories

  • A Man Returned (1965 )
  • The Dark Between the Stars (1991 )

Issued Anthologies

  • The Zeitgeist Machine: A New Anthology of Science Fiction ( 1977)
  • Strange Attractors: Original Australian Speculative Fiction (1985 )
  • Not the Only Planet: Science Fiction Travel Stories ( 1998)
  • Centaurus: Best of Australian Science Fiction (1999, with David G. Hartwell )
  • Earth is But a Star: Excursions through Science Fiction to the Far Future ( 2001)

Scientific literature

  • The Lotto Effect: Towards a Technology of the Paranormal (1992 )
  • The Architecture of Babel: Discourses of Literature and Science ( 1994)
  • Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction (1995 )
  • Theory and Its Discontents (1997)
  • The Spike: How Our Lives are being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technology (1997, revised 2001)
  • The Last Mortal Generation ( 1999)
  • Trans Realist Fiction ( 2000)
  • X, y, z, t: Dimensions of Science Fiction ( 2004)
  • Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the New Enlightenment (2005)
  • Cultural Dominants and Differential MNT Uptake ( an essay, the complete text is available under links )
  • Outside the Gates of Science: Why It 's Time for the Paranormal to Come In From The Cold (2007)
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