Greg van Eekhout is an American

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and

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writer. His "In the Late December" (2003) was nominated for the

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, and his middle-grade fantasy novel ''The Boy at the End of the World'' was nominated for the 2012

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for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Biography and career

Van Eekhout's parents are of

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(Dutch-Indonesian) extraction. His last name (meaning "of Oakwood") is pronounced, in his own explanation, "like this: Van, as in the kind of thing you drive, eek, as in, 'Eek, killer robots are stomping the rutabagas!' and 'hout', like 'out' with an h in front of it. The emphasis is on the Eek." He grew up in

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and attended

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, where he received a Bachelor's in English. He earned a Master's in Educational Media and Computers at

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, and worked for a time at ASU designing

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. He attended the writing workshop

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in 1999. His first professionally published story, "Wolves Till the World Goes Down," (2001) appeared in the

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'' Starlight 3'' and was later reprinted in ''Fantasy: The Best of 2001''. His story "In the Late December" (2003) was nominated for

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for Best Short Story. His work has also appeared in a number of other places, including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. His first novel, ''Norse Code'', an adult

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, was published by

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in May 2009. His second novel, a middle-grade fantasy titled ''Kid Vs. Squid'', was released by Bloomsbury Children's USA on May 11, 2010. ''The Boy at the End of the World'', also a middle-grade fantasy, was released in June 2011 by Bloomsbury Children's USA. His fourth novel, ''California Bones'', was published by

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on June 10, 2014. It is the first in a planned trilogy based on his 2006 short story "The Osteomancer’s Son", anthologized in ''Year’s Best Fantasy 7'' and ''Best Fantasy of the Year: 2007''.Writing and Snacks - New book deal!
The second in the series, ''Pacific Fire'', was published on January 27, 2015. He currently lives in

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Bibliography

Novels

* ''Norse Code'' (

, May 2009) * ''Kid Vs. Squid'' ( Bloomsbury Children's USA, May 2010) * ''The Boy at the End of the World'' ( Bloomsbury Children's USA, June 2011) * ''California Bones'' (

, June 2014) * ''Pacific Fire'' (

, 2015) * ''Dragon Coast'' (

, 2015) * ''Voyage of the Dogs'' ( HarperCollins Children's, September 2018) * ''COG'' ( HarperCollins Children's, October 2019) * ''Weird Kid'' ( HarperCollins Children's, July 2021) * ''Fenris & Mott'' ( HarperCollins Children's, August 2022) * ''The Ghost Job'' (

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, September 2023)

Short fiction

* "Wolves Till the World Goes Down", ''Starlight 3'' (2001); included in ''Fantasy: The Best of 2001'' * "Show and Tell", ''

'' (June 2002) * "Will You Be an Astronaut?", ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (September 2002) * "In the Late December", Strange ''Horizons'
(online)
(Dec 2003) * "Robots and Falling Hearts" (with

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), ''

'' (April 2005); ''Year’s Best Fantasy 6'' * "Anywhere There’s a Game", ''Realms of Fantasy'' (April 2006) * "The Osteomancer’s Son", '' Asimov’s Science Fiction'' (April/May 2006); ''Year’s Best Fantasy 7'', ''Best Fantasy of the Year: 2007'' * "The Holy City and Em’s Reptile Farm", ''Other Earths'' (DAW BOOKS, April 2009) * "Last Son of Tomorrow", ''

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''
online
(May 2009) * "On the Fringes of the Fractal", ''2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush'' (2016); ''The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2017'' * "The Wolf and the Manticore", ''The Book of Magic'' (2018) * "Polly Wanna Cracker", ''Wastelands: The New Apocalypse'' (2019) * "Big Box", ''

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'' (July 2019) * "Spaceship October", ''

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'' (2020)

References

External links

*, the author's official site. Includes his blog, bibliography, and links to some of his stories online. * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Van Eekhout, Greg 21st-century American novelists American fantasy writers American male novelists American science fiction writers American people of Dutch-Indonesian descent University of California, Los Angeles alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Indo people American male short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 21st-century American male writers