Chris Beckett

Chris Beckett (born December 28, 1955 in Oxford ) is a British writer and university professor.

Life

Chris Beckett was born the son of a doctor and a soil scientist in Oxford. Today he lives in Cambridge with his wife Maggie. He has three grown children.

academic career

Chris Beckett studied psychology at the University of Bristol , social work at the University of Wales and Goldsmiths College, and English at Anglia Ruskin University . He worked as a social worker, received his PhD in social work from Anglia Ruskin University in 2010 and has since worked as a senior lecturer at the University of East Anglia .

Writing activity

Chris Beckett published his first short stories in the science fiction magazine Interzone in the early 1990s . His first novel, The Holy Machine (dt. Messiah-Machine ), released in 2004, his first collection of short stories, The Turing Test, was published in 2008 and won the 2009 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. The novel Marcher followed in 2009 (a revised version appeared in 2014). He gained fame with his Eden trilogy, which has not yet been translated into German , the first part of which, Dark Eden , appeared in 2012 and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in the same year . This was followed by Mother of Eden in 2015 and Daughter of Eden in 2016.

Awards

1994 Interzone Readers Poll for The Welfare Man in the "Fiction" category
2009 Edge Hill Short Story Prize for The Turing Test Collection

2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Dark Eden

bibliography

The Holy Machine

La Macchina (in: Interzone, # 46 April 1991 )
The Long Journey of Frozen Heart (in: Interzone, # 49 July 1991 )
The Holy Machine (2004)
- German: Messiah Machine. Droemer Knaur (Knaur-Taschenbücher # 51119), 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-51119-0 .

Dark Eden

1 Dark Eden (2012)
2 Mother of Eden (2015)
3 Daughter of Eden (2016)
The Circle of Stones (in: Interzone, # 56 February 1992 )
Dark Eden (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2006 )
Eden's Story (collective edition from 1–3; 2017)

Outsiders (short stories)

The Perimeter (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2005 )
Piccadilly Circus (in: Interzone, # 198 May-June 2005 )

Novels

Marcher (2008)
America City (2017)
Beneath the World, a Sea (2019)
Two Tribes (2020)

Collections

The Turing Test (2008)
The Peacock Cloak (2013)
Spring Tide (2018)

Short stories

1990:

A Matter of Survival (in: Interzone, # 40 October 1990 )

1993:

The Welfare Man (in: Interzone, # 74 August 1993 )

1994:

Jazamine in the Green Wood (in: Interzone, # 86 August 1994 )

1995:

The Warrior Half and Half (in: Interzone, # 102 December 1995 )

1999:

Valor (in: Interzone, # 141 March 1999 )

2000:

The Marriage of Sky & Sea (in: Interzone, # 153 March 2000 )
The Gates of Troy (in: Interzone, # 154 April 2000 )
Snapshots of Apirania (in: Interzone, # 160 October 2000 )

2001:

Marcher (in: Interzone, # 172 October 2001 )
Watching the Sea (in: Interzone, # 173 November 2001 )

2002:

To Become a Warrior (in: Interzone, # 180 June-July 2002 )
The Turing Test (in: Interzone, # 183 October 2002 )

2003:

Monsters (in: Interzone, # 186 February 2003 )

2004:

Tammy Pendant (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2004 )
We Could be Sisters (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2004 )

2006:

Karel's Prayer (in: Interzone, # 206 October 2006 )

2008:

Greenland (in: Interzone, # 218 October 2008 )
Poppyfields (in: Interzone, # 218 October 2008 )
Rat Island (in: Interzone, # 218 October 2008 )

2009:

Atomic Truth (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2009 )
The Famous Cave Paintings on Isolus 9 (2009, in: Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers (Eds.): Enemy of the Good (Postscripts # 19) )

2010:

Johnny's New Job (in: Interzone, # 227 March-April 2010 )
Our Land (2010, in: Ian Whates (Ed.): Conflicts )
The Peacock Cloak (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2010 )
The Desiccated Man (2010, in: Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers (Eds.): The Company He Keeps (Postscripts 22/23) )

2011:

Two Thieves (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2011 )
Day 29 (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2011 )

2012:

The Caramel Forest (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2012 )

2014:

The Goblin Hunter (2014, in: Ian Whates (Ed.): Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction )

2018:

Aphrodite (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
Cellar (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
Creation (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
Dear (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
The End of Time (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
Frozen Flame (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
The Gates of Eden (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
The Great Sphere (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
The Kite (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
The Lake (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
Love (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
The Man Who Swallowed Himself (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
Newmarket (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
Ooze (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
Rage (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
Roundabout (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
Sky (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
Spring Tide (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
The Steps (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
Still Life (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
Transients (2018, in: Chris Beckett: Spring Tide )
Memories of a Table (2018, in: Ian Whates and Tom Hunter (Eds.): 2001: An Odyssey in Words )