Geoff Ryman

(May 9, 1951 –)

Geoffrey Charles Ryman was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He moved to the US at age 11, was educated at UCLA: BA, 1972 [Phi Beta Kappa], then moved to England in 1973, and worked in publishing and civil service positions there before becoming a fulltime writer. First publication: "The Diary of the Translator" in New Worlds 10 (1976). First novel: The Warrior Who Carried Life (Allen & Unwin, 1985); First collection: Unconquered Countries: Four Novellas (St. Martin's Press, 1994). He has also written/directed/acted in several SF plays, including an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's The Transmigration of Timothy Archer in 1982.

Ryman has written: "A common thread running through most of my books is the early responsive vision of childhood and its subsequent muddying by education, authority, and the general need to survive." He performed the role of Spock in Spock in Manacles in 1985.

Other published works include "The Coming of Enkidu" (1989) [450 copies published for Novacon 19 in November, 1989], Was (1992), and Lust (2001). The novel Air appeared in 2004, and the chapbook V.A.O. in 2002. Air is based on Ryman's 2001 short story "Have, Not Have." A mainstream novel about Cambodia, The King's Last Song, appeared in 2006.

• Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
• Interviews in the 1992 Winter/Spring issue (#41) of the fanzine Quantum and in the January 2006 issue of Locus ("The Mundane Fantastic").

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1984 -- Shoestringcon 6
• 1985 -- World Fantasy Award (Novella) for The Unconquered Country
• 1988 -- Wincon I
• 1989 -- Novacon 19
• 1990 -- Arthur C. Clarke Award and John W. Campbell, Jr. Memorial Award for The Child Garden
• 1991 -- Octocon 1991
• 1992 -- Illumination
• 1994 -- BAcon
• 1998 -- Philip K. Dick Award for 253: The Print Remix
• 2001 -- Picocon 18
• 2002 -- Picocon 19
• 2005 -- Sunburst Award for Air (2005);
• 2006 -- Imagicon 1
• 2007 -- Boréal 2007, ICFA 28, 2007 Best Novelette Hugo nominee
• 2008 -- Gaylaxicon 2008
• 2009 -- WisCon 33
• 2010 -- Åcon 4
• 2011 -- Readercon 22
• 2012 -- 2012 Best Novelette Hugo nominee

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