Will McIntosh
William D. McIntosh (born January 31, 1962 in New York City ) is an American writer and psychologist.
Life
Will McIntosh's father, William F. McIntosh, was a Brigadier General . In 1990, Will McIntosh received his PhD in social psychology from the University of Georgia . From 1990 to 2012 he was Professor of Psychology at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro . He moved to Williamsburg , Virginia in 2012 to focus primarily on writing. He also teaches at the College of William & Mary , a state university in Williamsburg.
Will McIntosh is married and has twins.
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Short stories
Will McIntosh's short stories have appeared in Interzone , Albedo One , Abyss & Apex , Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine , Chimeraworld , Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet , The Drabblecast , Aeon , On Spec , among others . , Postscripts , Strange Horizons , Black Static , Asimov's Science Fiction , Escape Pod , Unplugged , Daily Science Fiction and Lightspeed . His short story Bridesicle won the Hugo Award and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Readers' Award in 2010 and was nominated for the Nebula Award . His short story Followed was filmed in 2011 by director James Kicklighter in Macon , Georgia.
Novels
His 2005 science fiction short story Soft Apocalypse , which was nominated for the British Science Fiction Association Award and the British Fantasy Award , gave rise to his first novel of the same name, in which the decline of civilization is portrayed. The novel is set in Savannah , Georgia. In his second novel, Hitcher , which appeared in 2012 and in Atlanta plays a visit to anthrax stroke, in which 500,000 people die in Atlanta, the personalities of the deceased, the consciousnesses of the survivors were, as a hitchhiker ( Hitcher ). His third novel, Love Minus Eighty , published in 2013, is an extension of his short story Bridesicles .
Works
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Soft apocalypse . Night Shade Books, San Francisco 2011, ISBN 978-1-59780-276-5 .
- German-language edition: How the world ends . Heyne, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-52924-3 .
- Hitchers . Night Shade Books, San Francisco 2012, ISBN 978-1-59780-335-9 .
- Love Minus Eighty . Orbit, London 2013, ISBN 978-0-356-50214-4 .
- Defenders . Orbit, London 2014, ISBN 978-0-316-21776-7 .
- Burning Midnight . Delacorte Press, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-553-53410-8 .
- Faller . Tor Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-7653-8355-6 .
Awards
- 2002: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Award of Distinction in Teaching from Georgia Southern University
- 2010: Hugo Award for the short story Bridesicle
- 2010: Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Readers' Award for the short story Bridesicles
- 2014: Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Readers' Award for the novel Over There
Web links
- Literature by and about Will McIntosh in the catalog of the German National Library
- Will McIntosh in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Will McIntosh at Open Library
- Will McIntosh in the science fiction awards database (English)
- Homepage Will McIntoshs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georgia Southern University Faculty of Psychology Staff ( April 6, 2012 memento in Internet Archive )
- ↑ The short story Bridesicle ( Memento of March 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) as PDF (English)
- ↑ Will McIntosh in the science fiction award database (English)
- ↑ Followed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McIntosh, Will |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McIntosh, William D. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |