Richard Chwedyk
Richard Chwedyk (* 1955 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American science fiction - writers . In 2003 he won the Nebula Award for Brontë's Egg for best short novel.
biography
Chwedyk's first publication was the short story Getting Along with Larga , which also won the 1986 ISFiC (Illinois Science Fiction in Chicago) Writer's Prize. In 1988 he won the award a second time with A Man Makes a Machine . This story was his first professional work, which appeared in Amazing Stories in November 1990 . In addition to his stories, Chwedyk also writes poetry and organizes poetry competitions in Chicago.
From 2000 he was in charge of the author's workshop at Worldcon and over the years a lot of other workshops at science fiction conventions, very often at Windycon .
Richard Chwedyk is married to the poet Pamela Miller Chwedyk. In 2009 he donated his archive to the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University .
Awards
- 1986: Illinois Science Fiction in Chicago Author Award for Getting Along with Larga
- 1988: Illinois Science Fiction in Chicago Writer's Prize for A Man Makes a Machine
- 2003: Nebula Award for Brontë's Egg as best short novel
Works
Short stories
- A Man Makes a Machine , 1990
- Last One Close the Door , 1993
- Surfaces , 1994
- Auteur Theory , 1998
- The Cthulhu Orthodontist , or Smile, Monster, Smile! , 2000 (as Richard J. Chwedyk)
- Where We Go , 2007
- The Ambiguities , 2007
- Knot With a Bang , 2010
- Dixon's Road , 2015
- The Man Who Put the Bomp , 2017
Dinosaur
- The Measure of All Things , 2001
- Brontë's Egg , 2002
- In Tibor's Cardboard Castle , 2004
- Orfy , 2010
Seals
- Red Lion in Winter , 2000
- A Few Kind Words for AE Van Vogt , 2002
- Small Poem , 2002
- Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man , 2003
- Rooms Must Explain Themselves , 2010
- Waiting for the Mad Scientists , 2016
Web links
- Richard Chwedyk in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Richard Chwedyk on the SFWA site
Individual evidence
- ^ Science Fiction Writers Association
- ↑ Northern Illinois University ( Memento June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Chwedyk, Richard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chwedyk, Richard J. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American science fiction writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |