Eugene Byrne

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Eugene Byrne (born February 25, 1959 in Waterford , Ireland ) is a British writer. He is the author of science fiction novels and short stories, two biographies and a city history.

Life

Born in Ireland in 1959, Byrne grew up in Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset . In 1981 he moved to Bristol , where he co-founded and co-edited the Bristol magazine Venue and worked there until it was closed in 2012.

His first short story, Culprits or, Where are they Now ? , co- authored with Kim Newman . appeared in 1990 in the science fiction magazine Interzone . Further short stories with Newman appeared in the following years and were summarized in 1997 as a fix-up under the title Back in the USSA . It tells the alternative history of the United Socialist States of America and its conflict with the capitalist Russian Empire from 1912 to its collapse in 1998.

His first novel ThiGMOO (1999) is about virtual replicas of historical figures equipped with artificial intelligence , who break out of a Museum of the Mind into the World Wide Web and are to be captured again by the protagonists.

Under the pseudonym Myles Burnham, he wrote two short stories for the anthology Route 666 (1990) published by David Pringle at Games Workshop . His short story HMS Habakkuk was nominated for the 2000 Sidewise Award for Alternate History .

As of 2006, he published two biographies and a city history of Bristol, illustrated by comic book artist Simon Gurr.

Awards

  • 1993 Interzone Readers Poll for Tom Joad in the category "Fiction"
  • 1996 Interzone Readers Poll for Bagged 'n' Tagged in the "Fiction" category

bibliography

Novels
  • Back in the USSA ( Fix-up , 1997; with Kim Newman )
  • ThiGMOO (1999)
  • Things Unborn (2001)
Short stories

1990:

  • Duel Control (1990, in: David Pringle (Ed.): Route 666 )
  • Four Minute Warning (1990, in: David Pringle (Ed.): Route 666 )
  • Culprits, or Where Are They Now? (in: Interzone, # 40 October 1990 ; with Kim Newman and Neil Gaiman )

1991:

  • In the Air (in: Interzone, # 43 January 1991 ; with Kim Newman)
  • The Wandering Christian (1991, in: Brian Stableford (Ed.): Tales of the Wandering Jew ; with Kim Newman)
  • Ten Days That Shook the World (in: Interzone, # 48 June 1991 ; with Kim Newman)

1992:

  • Tom Joad (in: Interzone, # 65 November 1992 ; with Kim Newman)
  • Cyril the Cyberpig (in: Interzone, # 66 December 1992 )

1995:

  • Bagged 'n' Tagged (in: Interzone, # 101 November 1995 )

1996:

  • Abdication Street (in: Interzone, # 105 March 1996 ; with Kim Newman)
  • Alfred's Imaginary Pestilence (in: Interzone, # 109 July 1996 )
  • Citizen Ed (in: Interzone, # 113 November 1996 ; with Kim Newman)

1997:

  • ThiGMOO (in: Interzone, # 120 June 1997 )
  • Teddy Bears' Picnic (2 parts in: Interzone, # 122 August 1997  ff .; with Kim Newman)
  • On the Road (1997, in: Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne: Back in the USSA ; with Kim Newman)

2000:

  • HMS Habakkuk (in: Interzone, # 155 May 2000 )

2010:

Non-fiction
  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Graphic Biography (Biography, 2006, with Simon Gurr)
  • The Bristol Story: A Graphic and (Mostly) True History of the Greatest City in the World! (City history, 2008, with Simon Gurr)
  • Darwin: A Graphic Biography (Biography, 2009, with Simon Gurr)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Brunel: A Graphic Biography , accessed December 2, 2017
  2. ↑ Myles Burnham in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
  3. ↑ Sidewise Awards for Alternate History: Past Winners and Finalists , accessed December 2, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Byrne, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burnham, Myles (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Waterford