Will McIntosh

William D. McIntosh ( born January 31, 1962 in New York City ) is an American writer and psychologist.

Life

The father of Will McIntosh, William F. McIntosh, was brigadier general. 1990 doctorate Will McIntosh at the University of Georgia in social psychology. From 1990 to 2012, he was a professor of psychology at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro. He moved in 2012 to Williamsburg, Virginia, to devote himself mainly to writing. In addition, he taught as a teacher at the College of William & Mary, a public university in Williamsburg.

Will McIntosh is married and has twins.

Work

Short stories

Will McIntosh's short stories appeared, among others, in the magazines Interzone, Albedo One, Abyss & Apex, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Chimera World, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, The Drabblecast, Aeon, On Spec. , Postscripts, Strange Horizons, Black Static, Asimov 's Science Fiction, Escape Pod, Unplugged, Daily Science Fiction and Lightspeed. His short story Bridesicle won the 2010 Hugo Award and the Asimov 's Reader Poll and was nominated for the Nebula Award. His short story Followed was filmed by director James Kicklighter in Macon, Georgia, 2011.

Novels

In his science fiction short story Soft Apocalypse of 2005, which was nominated for the British Science Fiction Association Award and the British Fantasy Award, his first novel of the same name in which the decline of civilization is described originated. The novel takes place in Savannah, Georgia. In his second novel, Hitchers, which appeared in 2012 and plays in Atlanta, to visit a anthrax attack that 500,000 people die in Atlanta, the personalities of the deceased, the consciousnesses of the survivors were, as a hitchhiker ( Hitcher ). His third novel, Love Minus Eighty, 2013 published, is an expansion of his short story Bridesicles.

Works

  • Soft Apocalypse. Night Shade Books, San Francisco 2011, ISBN 978-1-59780-276-5. German -language edition: How the world ends. Heyne, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-52924-3.

Awards

  • 2002: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Award of Distinction in Teaching Georgia Southern University
  • 2010: Hugo Award for the short story Bridesicle
  • 2010: Asimov 's Readers Poll for the short story Bridesicles
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