Australian writer (born 1959)
Stephen Dedman (born 1959[ 1] ) is an Australian writer of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels.
Biography
Dedman's short stories have appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror , Year's Best SF , and The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection .
Contributing as a story editor, Dedman is also one of the team members behind Borderlands, a tri-annual Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine published between 2003-2009 from Perth , Western Australia.
In 2007, he contributed to the Doctor Who short-story collection, Short Trips: Destination Prague .
Bibliography
Novels
The Art of Arrow-Cutting (Tor Books , 1997)
Shadows Bite (Tor, 2001) (sequel to The Art of Arrow-Cutting )
Foreign Bodies (Tor, 1999)
Shadowrun : A Fistful of Data (ROC, 2006).
Shadowrun : For a Few Nuyen More (Catalyst Game Labs) 2021
Story collections
The Lady of Situations (Ticonderoga Publications , 1999)
Never Seen By Waking Eyes (Prime, 2005)
Charm, Strangeness, Mass and Spin (Norstrilia Press, 2022)
Anthology contributions
Non-fiction works
Bone Hunters: On the Trail of the Dinosaurs (Omnibus, 1998)
May the Armed Forces Be With You: The Relationship Between Science Fiction and the United States Military (McFarland) 2016
Chapbooks
The Dirty Little Unicorn (Self-published, 1987)
Short stories
Works edited
Consensual (co-edited)
Consensual: the Second Coming (co-edited)
Consensual a trois . (co-edited)
Borderlands Magazine
Awards
The Art of Arrow-Cutting was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in the category of Best First Novel . In 1998 Dedman's "A Walk-On Part in the War " won the 1998 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story .[ 2] In 2001 "The Devotee" tied for the win with Terry Dowling 's "The Saltimbanques " of the 2001 Ditmar Award for best short story.[ 3] "Dead of Winter " won the 2006 Aurealis Award for best horror short story .[ 4] Dedman has also received over 30 nominations for his work in awards such as the Aurealis Awards, Ditmar Awards, Gaylactic Spectrum Awards , the Bram Stoker Awards, and the Locus Awards .[ 5]
References
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