Nick DiChario
Nicholas A. DiChario (born October 31, 1960 in Rochester , New York ) is an American writer .
Life
Nick DiChario studied at Empire State College in Saratoga Springs . Short plays written by him have been performed at the Geva Theater in Rochester. He has written book and film reviews for the British magazine Philosophy Now . He was the owner of a bookstore in Honeoye Falls near Rochester and has been working as a communications expert for the Saint Petersburg branch of the Rochester company Paychex since 2006 . Since March 2014 he has been teaching creative writing at St. Petersburg College in Saint Petersburg, Florida .
Publications
Nick DiChario wrote two novels and several short stories . These appeared in the magazines Starshore , the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , Science Fiction Age , Weird Tales and Realms of Fantasy as well as in anthologies by the editors Piers Anthony , Algis Budrys , Keith DeCandido , Gardner Dozois , Martin Greenberg , Katharine Kerr , Byron Preiss , Josepha Sherman , Robert Silverberg , Harry Turtledove , Dave Wolverton and especially Mike Resnick .
DiChario has been nominated for prizes frequently: his short story The Winterberry was nominated for the Hugo Award , the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction and the World Fantasy Award in 1993, his short story Birdie , which he wrote with Mike Resnick, 1995 for the HOMer Award and the Science Fiction Chronicles Reader Poll. Another Hugo nomination brought him in 2000 his short story Sarajevo , another nomination for the HOMer Award 2001 his short story Flyby Aliens .
His first novel A Small and Remarkable Life was published in 2006. It takes place between the years 1845 and 1865 and is about xenophobia and intolerance using the example of the contact between an alien and a priest. The priest is unable to respect the atheism of the alien. DiChario's second novel Valley of Day-Glo is a post-apocalyptic satire about the Iroquois and film culture. Both novels were nominated for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel .
A translation of his first novel was published in France in 2010 in the Folio SF series of the publisher Éditions Gallimard in a translation by Claudine Richetin under the title La vie secrète et remarquable de Tink Puddah .
Novels
- A Small and Remarkable Life . Robert J. Sawyer Books, Markham 2006, ISBN 978-0-88995-342-0 .
- Valley of Day-Glo . Robert J. Sawyer Books, Markham 2008, ISBN 978-0-88995-410-6 .
Short story collection
- with Mike Resnick: Magic Feathers: The Mike & Nick Show . Obscura Press, Ames 2000, ISBN 978-0-9659569-3-2 .
Web links
- Nick DiChario in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Nick DiChario in the science fiction awards database (English)
- Works by and about Nick DiChario at Open Library
- Nick DiChario Website (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | DiChario, Nick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | DiChario, Nicholas A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rochester , New York |