Richard Chwedyk

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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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Science Fiction Writers Association
  2. Northern Illinois University ( Memento June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )