Damien Broderick

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Damien Francis Broderick

Damien Francis Broderick (born April 22, 1944 in Melbourne , Australia) is an Australian author who writes science fiction and popular science books. The term virtual reality is sometimes said to have been used for the first time in Broderick's science fiction novel The Judas Mandala .

Broderick holds a PhD in Literature from Deakin University in Australia, writing his dissertation on comparative semiotics in scientific, literary and science fiction textuality .

Damien Broderick lives in Melbourne and Lockhart , Texas , among others . He is married to Barbara Lamar. He also works as a science fiction editor for the Australian popular science magazine Cosmos .

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Four of Broderick's novels have won the Ditmar Award (including the book Transmitters , which received a separate award as a non-science fiction work). The first novel, The Dreaming Dragons, was runner-up for the Campbell Award for Best Novel. In November 2003, Broderick received a two-year (2004 and 2005) scholarship from the Australia Council for the Arts to write novels on the Technological Singularity . In 2005 he received the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts .

Broderick's best-known scientific works are The Spike (1997, revised 2001), a scientific book on the technological singularity, and The Last Mortal Generation (1999), in which he writes about radically elongated but still youthful phases of life.

His novel The Hunger of Time (2004, with Rory Barnes) was published as an e-book and book-on-demand . His more recent studies x, y, z, t: Dimensions of Science Fiction (2004) and Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the New Enlightenment (2005) have also been published as book-on-demand. The covers of The Hunger of Time and x, y, z, t: Dimensions of Science Fiction were designed by the Swedish transhumanist Anders Sandberg , as was the anthology Earth is but a Star , in which Broderick summarizes various science fiction stories that all concerned with the distant future.

His recent novels include Godplayers (2005), which was named Locus ' annual Recommended Book List , and K-Machines (2006), which received the 2007 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Also, does the comic I Suppose a Root's Out of the Question? A Comedy of Bad Manners (2007), which he wrote with Rory Barnes. He also wrote the science fiction thriller Post Mortal Syndrome with his wife, Barbara Lamar, which was published in Cosmos magazine .

Broderick also wrote several radio plays, including settings of his own works as well as those of other authors. His play Schrödinger's Dog , which was first broadcast in 1995, won the Prix ​​Italia . The resulting short story was selected for Gardner Dozoi's Year's Best Science Fiction .

Awards

  • 1981 Ditmar Award for The Dreaming Dragons in the "Australian Novel" category
  • 1989 Ditmar Award for Striped Holes in the "Australian Long Fiction" category
  • 1998 Aurealis Award for The White Abacus for best science fiction novel
  • 1998 Ditmar Award for The White Abacus in the "Australian Long Fiction" category
  • 2001 Aurealis Award for Infinite Monkey for best science fiction short story
  • 2002 Ditmar Award for Earth is But a Star in the category "Collected Work"
  • 2002 Aurealis Award for Transcension for best science fiction novel
  • 2005 IAFA Award in the "Distinguished Scholarship" category
  • 2007 Aurealis Award for K-Machines for best science fiction novel
  • 2010 A. Bertram Chandler Memorial Award
  • 2010 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for This Wind Blowing, and this Tide

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Series and cycles

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

The Faustus Hexagram
  • 1 The Dreaming Dragons (1980; also: The Dreaming , 2001)
    • English: The dreaming dragons. Translated by Harro Christensen. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller # 22059, 1983, ISBN 3-404-22059-5 .
  • 2 The Judas Mandala (1982)
  • 3 Transmitters: An Imaginary Documentary 1969 - 1984
  • 4 The Black Grail (1986)
  • 5 Striped Holes (1988)
  • 6 The Sea's Furthest End (1993)
Jack (short novels)
  • 1 Jack and the Aliens (2002)
  • 2 Jack and the Skyhook (2003)
Players in the Contest of Worlds
  • 1 Godplayers (2005)
  • 2 K-Machines (2006)

Novels

  • Sorcerer's World (1970)
  • Valencies (1983; with Rory Barnes)
  • The White Abacus (1997)
  • Zones (1997; with Rory Barnes)
  • The Book of Revelation (1999; also: Dark Gray , 2010; with Rory Barnes)
  • Stuck in Fast Forward (1999; with Rory Barnes)
  • Transcension (2002)
  • The Game of Stars and Souls (2002)
  • The Hunger Of Time (2003; with Rory Barnes)
  • Quipu (2005)
  • I'm Dying Here (2006; with Rory Barnes)
  • Human's Burden (2010; with Rory Barnes)
  • Dark Gray (2010; with Rory Barnes)
  • Post Mortal Syndrome: A Science Fiction Novel (2011; with Barbara Lamar)
  • The Valley of the God of Our Choice, Inc. (2015; with Rory Barnes)
  • Threshold of Eternity (2017; with John Brunner )
  • Yggdrasil Station (2020)

Collections

  • A Man Returned (1965)
  • The Dark Between the Stars (1991)
  • Uncle Bones (2009)
  • Climbing Mount Implausible: The Evolution of a Science Fiction Writer (short stories, interviews and essays, 2010)
  • The Qualia Engine (2010)
  • Adrift in the Noösphere: Science Fiction Stories (2012)
  • Gaia to Galaxy: Scripts for Radio (2012)
  • Restore Point: Scripts for Radio and Film (2012)
  • Starlight Interviews (2017)

Short stories

1964
  • The Sea's Furthest End (1964, in: John Carnell (Ed.): New Writings in SF 1 )
1965
  • All My Yesterdays (1965, in: Damien Broderick: A Man Returned )
  • Every Little Star (1965, in: Damien Broderick: A Man Returned )
  • Children of Tantalus (1965, in: Damien Broderick: A Man Returned )
  • Darkness Changeling (1965, in: Damien Broderick: A Man Returned )
  • The Disposal of Man (1965, in: Damien Broderick: A Man Returned ; also: The Disposal Man , 1967)
  • The Howling Sky (1965, in: Damien Broderick: A Man Returned )
  • I Remember Man (1965, in: Damien Broderick: A Man Returned )
  • Little Tin God (1965, in: Damien Broderick: A Man Returned )
  • A Man Returned (1965, in: Damien Broderick: A Man Returned )
  • A Question of Conscience (1965, in: Damien Broderick: A Man Returned )
  • Requiem in Heaven (1965, in: Damien Broderick: A Man Returned )
  • There Was a Star (1965, in: Damien Broderick: A Man Returned )
1969
  • The Vault (1969, in: Vision of Tomorrow, # 1 )
1970
  • Incubation (in: Vision of Tomorrow # 5, February 1970 ; with John Romeril)
  • The Star-Mutants (in: Vision of Tomorrow # 6, March 1970 )
  • The Ultimate Weapon (in: Vision of Tomorrow # 11, August 1970 )
1976
  • Growing Up (in: Galileo, September 1976 )
1978
  • A Passage in Earth (1978, in: Lee Harding (Ed.): Rooms of Paradise )
    • German: Erdenfahrt. In: Josh Pachter (ed.): Top Science Fiction: Third Part. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4654, 1990, ISBN 3-453-03918-1 .
1980
  • The Ballad of Bowsprit Bear's Stead (1980, in: Ursula K. Le Guin and Virginia Kidd (Eds.): Edges )
    • English: The ballad of Bogenspriet bear skin. In: Ursula K. Le Guin and Virginia Kidd (eds.): Edges. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4015, 1983, ISBN 3-453-30954-5 .
1981
  • Resurrection (in: Omega Science Digest, November-December 1981 )
1982
  • The Magi (1982, in: Alan Ryan (Ed.): Perpetual Light )
  • Coming Back (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1982 )
1983
  • I Lost My Love to the Space Shuttle Columbia (in: Amazing Science Fiction, March 1983 )
  • Drowning in Fire (1983, in: David King (Ed.): Dreamworks: Strange New Stories )
1985
  • The Interior (1985, in: Damien Broderick: Strange Attractors )
  • A Tooth for Every Child (1985, in: David King and Russell Blackford (Eds.): Urban Fantasies )
1987
  • Thy Sting (in: Omni, June 1987 )
1990
  • The Sea's Nearest Shore (1990, in: Aurealis, # 2 )
1991
  • The Drover's Wife's Dog (1991, in: Damien Broderick: The Dark Between the Stars )
  • The Writeable Text (1991, in: Damien Broderick: The Dark Between the Stars )
1996
  • Schrödinger's Dog (in: Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Spring 1996 )
1998
  • The Womb (1998, in: Jack Dann and Janeen Webb (Eds.): Dreaming Down-Under )
1999
  • Time Out (1999, in: Paul Collins and Meredith Costain (Eds.): Time Zones )
2000
  • Infinite Monkey (2000, in: Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Spring 1996 )
  • Serf (2000, in: Paul Collins and Meredith Costain (Eds.): Winners Are Grinners )
2001
  • Billennium (2001, in: Damien Broderick: Earth Is But a Star: Excursions Through Science Fiction to the Far Future )
2002
  • Schrödinger's Catch (2002, in: Cat Sparks (Ed.): Agog! Fantastic Fiction )
2003
  • Players in the Game of Worlds (2003, in: Margaret Winch and Peter McNamara (Eds.): Forever Shores )
2004
  • The Meek (2004, in: George Zebrowski (Ed.): Synergy SF: New Science Fiction )
  • Yggdrasil (2004, in: George Zebrowski (Ed.): Synergy SF: New Science Fiction )
  • The Final Weapon (2004, in: Rob Gerrand (Ed.): The Best Australian Science Fiction: A Fifty Year Collection )
2005
  • The Kaluza-Klein Caper (2005, in: Mike Ashley (Ed.): The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy )
2009
  • Uncle Bones (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2009 )
  • This Wind Blowing, and This Tide (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2009 )
  • The Game of Stars and Souls (2009, in: Damien Broderick: Uncle Bones )
  • The Ruined Queen of Harvest World (in: Tor.com, August 18, 2009 )
  • The Qualia Engine (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2009 )
  • Cockroach Love (2009, in: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue # 41 ; with Paul Di Filippo)
  • Flowers of Asphodel (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2009 )
2010
  • Dead Air (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2010 )
  • Exorcism (2010, in: Damien Broderick: Climbing Mount Implausible: The Evolution of a Science Fiction Writer )
  • The Mirrors of the Sea (2010, in: Damien Broderick: Climbing Mount Implausible: The Evolution of a Science Fiction Writer )
  • Murder Is in the Eye of the Beholder (2010, in: Damien Broderick: Climbing Mount Implausible: The Evolution of a Science Fiction Writer )
  • Symbol of the Serpent (2010, in: Damien Broderick: Climbing Mount Implausible: The Evolution of a Science Fiction Writer )
  • Walk Like a Mountain (2010, in: Damien Broderick: Climbing Mount Implausible: The Evolution of a Science Fiction Writer )
  • Under the Moons of Venus (in: Subterranean Online, Spring 2010 )
  • Walls of Flesh, Bars of Bone (2010, in: Jonathan Strahan (Ed.): Engineering Infinity ; with Barbara Lamar)
2011
  • Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order (in: Tor.com, May 25, 2011 )
  • The Beancounter's Cat (2011, in: Jonathan Strahan (Ed.): Eclipse Four: New Science Fiction and Fantasy )
  • The Unheimlich Maneuver (2011, in: Luis Ortiz (Ed.): The Monkey's Other Paw: Revived Classic Stories of Dread and the Dead )
2012
  • All Summer Long (2012, in: Damien Broderick: Adrift in the Noösphere: Science Fiction Stories )
  • Luminous Fish (2012, in: Damien Broderick: Adrift in the Noösphere: Science Fiction Stories ; also: Luminous Fish Scanalyze My Name , 2013; with Paul Di Filippo)
2013
  • Do Unto Others (2013, in: Cosmos: The Science of Everything, July 2005 )
  • Quicken (2013, in: Damien Broderick and Robert Silverberg: Beyond the Doors of Death )
2017
  • Tao Zero (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, March-April 2017 )

Anthologies

  • The Zeitgeist Machine: A New Anthology of Australian Science Fiction (1977; also: The Zeitgeist Machine: A New Anthology of Science Fiction )
  • Strange Attractors (1985)
  • Matilda at the Speed ​​of Light (1988)
  • Not the Only Planet: Science Fiction Travel Stories (1998)
  • Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction (1999; with David G. Hartwell )
  • Earth Is But a Star: Excursions Through Science Fiction to the Far Future (2001)
  • Year Million (2008)
  • Beyond the Doors of Death (2013; with Robert Silverberg )
  • Xeno Fiction: More Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature (2013; with Van Ikin)
  • Fantastika (2014; with Van Ikin)
  • You're Not Alone: ​​Thirty Science Fiction Stories from Cosmos Magazine (2015)
Selected Stories from Science Fantasy (with John Boston)
  • 1 The Daymakers: Selected Stories from Science Fantasy (2014)
  • 2 City of the Tiger: More Selected Stories from Science Fantasy (2015)
  • 3 Perchance to Wake: Yet More Selected Stories from Science Fantasy (2016)

Non-fiction

  • The Lotto Effect: Towards a Technology of the Paranormal (1992)
  • The Architecture of Babel: Discourses of Literature and Science (1994)
  • Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction (1994)
  • Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science (1996)
  • The Spike: Accelerating into the Unimaginable Future (1997; also: The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technologies , 2001)
    • German: Molecular Manufacture: How Nanotechnology Affects Our Future. Translated by Hubert Mania. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag (Rororo # 61627), Reinbek near Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-499-61627-0 .
  • Theory and Its Discontents (1997)
  • The Last Mortal Generation (1999)
  • X, Y, Z, T: Dimensions of Science Fiction (2004)
  • Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the new Enlightenment (2005)
  • Outside the Gates of Science: Why it's time for the paranormal to come in from the cold (2007)
  • Unleashing the Strange: Twenty-First Century Science Fiction Literature (2009)
  • Chained to the Alien: The Best of Australian Science Fiction Review (Second Series) (2009)
  • Skiffy and Mimesis: More Best of Australian SF Review (Second Series) (2010)
  • Embarrass My Dog: The Way We Were, the Things We Thought (2010)
  • Warriors of the Tao: The Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature (2011; with Van Ikin)
  • Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 (2012; with Paul Di Filippo)
  • Strange Highways: Reading Science Fantasy, 1950–1967 (2013; with John Boston)
  • Building New Worlds, 1946–1959: The Carnell Era, Volume One (2013; with John Boston)
  • New Worlds: Before the New Wave, 1960–1964: The Carnell Era, Volume Two (2013; with John Boston)
  • Xeno Fiction: More Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature (2013; with Van Ikin)
  • Fantastika at the Edge of Reality: Yet More Best of Science Fiction (2014; with Van Ikin)
  • Intelligence Unbound (2014; with Russell Blackford)
  • Other Spacetimes: Interviews with Speculative Fiction Writers (2015; with Van Ikin)
  • Knowing The Unknowable: Putting Psi to Work (2015)
  • Starlight Interviews: Conversations with a Science Fiction Writer (2017)
  • Psience Fiction: The Paranormal in Science Fiction Literature (2018)
  • Consciousness and Science Fiction (2018)
  • The Time Machine Hypothesis: Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction (2019)

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personal data
SURNAME Broderick, Damien
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Broderick, Damien Francis (full name); Delaney, Roger (pseudonym); Gribbles, O'Flaherty (pseudonym); Grieve, Edgar (pseudonym); Harding, Jack (pseudonym); Harlison, Alan (pen name); Jenkins, Philip (pseudonym); West, Horace (pseudonym); Yarrick, Iago (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer of science fiction and popular science books
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Australia