Ben Peek
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Benjamin Michael Peek | |
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 Ben Peek at the 2007 World Fantasy Convention | |
| Born | Ben Michael Peek 12 October 1976 (age 47) Sydney, New South Wales |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Genre | Speculative fiction |
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Ben Peek (born 12 October 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael.[1]
Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including comic that in part follows on from their original collaboration on Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth. Peek has claimed that every incident described in Nowhere near Savannah is true.[2]
Peek holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the
PhD in Creative Writing from the University of New South Wales, during which he wrote the novel A Year in the City. His reviews have appeared on several websites including, PopImage, Sequential Tart, and Strange Horizons
. In 2005 he interviewed over forty Australian speculative fiction writers, editors and publishers as part of The 2005 Snapshot: Australian Speculative Fiction.
Peek's writing is best described as
race and multiculturalism
. Peek has also written a number of works that play with story form, including Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth and Johnny Cash.
Published fiction
Novels and longer works
- Leviathan's Blood: Book Two of the Children Trilogy (2016) Thomas Dunne Books
- The Godless (2014), Thomas Dunne Books.
- Dead Americans (2013), short story collection, ChiZine Publications.
- Below in Above/Below with Stephanie Campisi, (2011), Twelfth Planet Press.
- Prime Books.
- Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth (2006), Wheatland Press.
- The Enigma Variant (1999), with Chris Mowbray. MirrorDanse Books.
Award nominations
Peek has been nominated for the Ditmar Awards (Australian SF Award) nine times. He is the second most nominated individual not to win a Ditmar.[3] He has twice been nominated for the Aurealis Award.[4]
References
- ^ "Authors : Peek, Ben : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
- ^ Peek, Ben (October 2007). "Nowhere Near Savannah" Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: Ditmar Awards Records and Tallies". Archived from the original on 3 February 2011. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
- ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees". Archived from the original on 16 December 2010. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
External links
- Ben Peek's livejournal
- Prime Books
- Wheatland Press
- The 2005 Snapshot: Australian Speculative Fiction
- Ben Peek at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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