Eric Brown (24 May 1960 – 21 March 2023) was a British

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Biography

Eric Brown was born in

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, in May 1960, and began writing in 1975. In the 1980s he travelled extensively throughout Greece and Asia (some of his novels are set in India). His first publication was in 1982, when his play for children ''Noel's Ark'' appeared. His career took off in the late 1980s with a succession of short stories in the magazine ''Interzone'' and other publications. His story "The Time-Lapsed Man" won the ''Interzone'' readers' poll for the most admired story of 1988, and an

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short text award in 1995. He was voted the Best New European SF writer of the Year in the early 1990s and subsequently won the

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twice (for the short stories "Hunting the Slarque" in 1999 and "Children of Winter" in 2001). Brown publicly admired the science fiction writing of Michael G. Coney,

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, Richard Paul Russo and

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, amongst others. Brown died from

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on 21 March 2023, at the age of 62.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Meridian Days''. London: Pan, 1992 (paper). * ''Engineman''. London: Pan, 1994 (paper). * ''Penumbra''. London: Millennium, 1999 (paper). * the Virex trilogy ** ''New York Nights''. London: Gollancz, 2000. ** ''New York Blues''. London: Gollancz, 2001. ** ''New York Dreams''. London: Gollancz, 2004 (paper). * ''Bengal Station''. Waterville, ME: Five Star Books, 2004. * ''Helix''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2007 (paper). * ''Kéthani''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2008 (paper). * Bengal Station ** ''Necropath''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2009 (paper). ** ''Xenopath''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper). ** ''Cosmopath''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper). * ''Engineman''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper). * ''Guardians of the Phoenix''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper). * ''The Kings of Eternity''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2011 (paper). * ''Weird Space: The Devil's Nebula''. Abaddon, 2012 (paper). * ''Helix Wars''. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2012 (paper). * ''Serene Invasion''. Abaddon, 2013 (paper). * ''Weird Space: Satan's Reach''. Abaddon, 2013 (paper). * ''Weird Space: The Baba Yaga''. Abaddon, 2015 (paper). * ''The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Martian Menace''. Titan Books, 2020.

Novellas

* ''A Writer's Life''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2001. * ''Approaching Omega''. Tolworth, Surrey: Telos Publishing, 2005. * ''The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2005. * ''Gilbert and Edgar on Mars''. Hornsea: PS Publishing, 2009. * Starship ** ''Starship Summer''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2007. ** ''Starship Fall''. Harrogate: NewCon Press, 2009. ** ''Starship Winter''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2012. ** ''Starship Spring''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2012. ** ''Starship Coda''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2016. * The Telemass Quartet ** ''Famadihana on Fomalhaut IV''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2014. ** ''Sacrifice on Spica III''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2014. ** ''Reunion on Alpha Reticuli II''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2016. ** ''Exalted on Bellatrix 1''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2017. ** ''Telemass Coda''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2019. * The Kon-tiki Quartet, with

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** ''Dislocations''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2018. ** ''Parasites''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2018. ** ''Insights''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2019.

Collections

* ''The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories''. London: Pan, 1990 (paper). * ''Blue Shifting''. London: Pan, 1995 (paper). * ''Parallax View'', with

. Mountain Ash, Wales: Sarob Press, 2000. * ''Deep Future''. Canton, OH: Cosmos Books, 2001. * ''The Fall of Tartarus''. London: Gollancz, 2005 (paper). * ''Threshold Shift''. Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon Press, 2006. * ''Parallax View'', with

. Stafford: Immanion Press, 2007 (paper). * ''Salvage''. Infinity Plus Books, 2013 (paper). * ''Starship Seasons''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2013. - A collection of the first four Starship novellas.

Children's books

* The Web ** ''Untouchable''. London: Dolphin, 1997 (paper). ** ''Walkabout''. London: Dolphin, 1999 (paper). * ''Twocking''. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2002 (paper). * ''Firebug''. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2003 (paper). * ''British Front''. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2005 (paper). * ''Space Ace''. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2005 (paper). * ''Crazy Love''. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2006 (paper). * ''Revenge (Most Wanted)''. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2007 (paper).

References

External resources

Official website
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at ''Free Speculative Fiction Online'' * '' Infinity Plus'' has
short profile of Eric Brown
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to Brown's collection ''Deep Future''.
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Eric Brown : Story behind Satan's Reach - Online Essay
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Eric Brown : Story behind Salvage - Online Essay
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Eric Brown : Story behind Murder by the Book - Online Essay
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The story behind Jani and the Greater Game - Essay by Eric Brown
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