Ian R. MacLeod

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Ian R. MacLeod (* 1956 in Solihull , England ) is a British science fiction - and fantasy - author .

Life

Ian R. MacLeod was born in Solihull, a town near Birmingham , to a Scottish father and a Birmingham mother who had met when they were stationed together on the east coast during World War II. Average at school, he failed to meet the requirements for higher education, but still achieved law studies through good performance and worked in public administrations. In 1990 he gave up this livelihood and became a freelance author; initially he wrote short stories, the first of which was published in 1989 in Interzone magazine .

Among other things, MacLeod wrote the novels The Light Ages (German: Aether ) and The House of Storms . Both play in a parallel universe of the 19th century in England, where "ether", a substance that can be controlled by the mind, has had a major impact on society and technological development.

Published in 1997 MacLeod his first novel The Great Wheel , and won the Locus Award in the category Best First Novel of the Year .

His shorter works can be found in the anthologies Breathmoss and Other Exhalations and Voyages by Starlight . The short story The Summer Isles won the Sidewise Award for Alternative History a year later (1998) . The story also received the World Fantasy Award . Although it was originally written the length of a novel, MacLeod only published an abridged version. The original version, which only appeared in 2005, also won the Sidewise Award the following year.

In 2000 he also won the World Fantasy Award again for his novel The Chop Girl . In 2008 his novel Song of Time was published , with which he won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award .

Works

Novels
  • 1997 The Great Wheel
  • 2003 The Light Ages
  • 2005 The House of Storms
  • 2005 The Summer Isles (expanded version of a 1998 short story)
  • 2008 Song of Time
  • 2011 Wake Up And Dream
Short story collections
  • 1996 Voyages by Starlight
  • 2004 Breathmoss and other Exhalations
  • 2006 Past Magic
  • 2010 Journeys
  • 2013 Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod
  • 2015 Frost on Glass
  • 2017 Red Snow

Awards

Web links

personal data
SURNAME MacLeod, Ian R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British science fiction and fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Solihull , England