Colin Greenland
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Colin Greenland | |
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Dover, Kent, England, UK | |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | Pembroke College, Oxford (BA, MA, DPhil) |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Partner | Susanna Clarke |
Colin Greenland (born 17 May 1954) is a British
British SF Association award and the 1991 Arthur C. Clarke Award,[1] as well as being a nominee for the 1992 Philip K. Dick Award
for the best original paperback published that year in the United States.
Biography
Colin Greenland attended
The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction (1983). His most successful fictional work is the Plenty series
that starts with Take Back Plenty and continues with Seasons of Plenty (1995), The Plenty Principle (1997) and Mother of Plenty (1998).
Besides his work on fiction, Greenland has continued to write non-fiction books and has been active in the Science Fiction Foundation, as well as serving on the editorial committee of Interzone. He has been a guest speaker at four separate Microcons: 1988, 1989, 1993 and 1994.
His wife is the novelist Susanna Clarke, with whom he has lived since 1996.
He is good friends with Neil Gaiman, and is frequently cited among Gaiman's acknowledgments pages.
Bibliography
Novels
- Daybreak series[3]
- ISBN 0-04-823346-3
- ISBN 0-04-823341-2
- Other Voices. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. ISBN 0-04-440165-5
- Plenty series
- ISBN 0-04-440265-1
- Seasons of Plenty. London: HarperCollins, 1995. ISBN 0-00-224208-7
- Mother of Plenty. London: HarperCollins Voyager, 1998 (paper). ISBN 0-00-649907-4
- Harm's Way. London: HarperCollins, 1993. ISBN 0-00-223916-7
- Spiritfeather. London: Orion, 2000 (paper). ISBN 1-85881-710-2
- Finding Helen. London: Black Swan, 2002 (paper). ISBN 0-552-77080-9
Collections
- The Plenty Principle. London: HarperCollins Voyager, 1997 (paper). ISBN 0-00-649906-6
Non-fiction
- ISBN 0-7100-9310-1
- Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future, with ISBN 0-8093-1376-6
- Michael Moorcock: Death is No Obstacle. Manchester: Savoy Books, 1992. ISBN 0-86130-087-4
As editor
- Interzone: The First Anthology, with ISBN 978-0-460-02294-1
References
- ^ Clute and Nicholls 1995, p. 525.
- ISBN 1857431790. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
- ^ Reginald 1992, p. 410.
Sources
- ISBN 0-312-13486-X.
- Reginald, Robert. Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991. Detroit, Washington DC, London: Gale Research, Inc., 1992. ISBN 0-8103-1825-3.
External links
- Colin Greenland – an infinity plus profile – retrieved 12 September 2005
- SF Hub: Colin Greenland archive – retrieved 12 September 2005
- Colin Greenland at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Colin Greenland Bibliography – retrieved 12 September 2005
- P-CON III: Guest Profile: Colin Greenland – retrieved 12 September 2005
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