Geoff Ryman’s science fiction includes The Child Garden (1989: Arthur C. Clarke Award, John W. Campbell Memorial Award and British Science Fiction Association Award) and Air (2005), which won a John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the James W. Tiptree Memorial Award, the Sunburst Award and the British Science Fiction Association Award. His interactive web novel 253 won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award for best novel not published in hardback, and the published Print Remix of the same novel (1998) is his most popular book.

Much of his work is based on travels to Cambodia. The Unconquered Country (1986) won the World Fantasy Award and British Science Fiction Association Award, while The King’s Last Song (2006) was set both in the Angkor Wat era and the time after Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. His novelette Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy) (2006) has been nominated for the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award.

Geoff’s mainstream novel Was (1992) views the American West through the history of The Wizard of Oz, and he is currently at work on a new historical novel set in the US before the Civil War.

Website : http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/newwriting/about/geoffryman/

Titles by Geoff Ryman

When It Changed

How much of Science Fiction is genuine science? Take away the fantastical clichés of space-travel, time-travel and artificial intelligence, and how much of what remains accurately represents contemporary scientific thinking?

When It Changed is an attempt to put authors and scientists back in touch with each other, to re-introduce research ideas with literary concerns, and to re-forge the alloy that once made SF great. Composed collaboratively – through a series of visits and conversations between leading authors and practicing scientists – it offers fictionalised glimpses into the far corners of current research fields, be they in nanotechnology, invertebrate physiology, particle physics, or software archaeology. From Planck's Length (the smallest indivisible distance) to Plankton (potential saviours of the Earth's ecosystem), from virtual encounters between Witgenstein and Turing, to future civilisations torn asunder by different readings of the Standard Model, together these stories represent a literary 'experiment' in the true sense of the word, and endeavour to isolate a whole new strain of the SF bug.

Featuring:

WRITERS: Justina Robson, Paul Cornell, Sara Maitland, Ken MacLeod, Gwyneth Jones, Adam Marek, Geoff Ryman, Michael Arditti, Simon Ings, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Kit Reed, Chaz Brenchley, Liz Williams, Patricia Duncker and Adam Roberts.

SCIENTISTS: Dr Andrew Bleloch, Dr Rob Appleby, Dr Jennifer Rowntree, Dr Richard Blake, Dr Kai Hock, Dr Vinod Dhanak, Emmanuel Pantos, Dr John Harris, Dr Matthew Cobb, Dr Tim O’Brien, Dr Steve Williams, Dr Sarah Lindley, Dr Steve Furber, Tim O’Brien and Dr Rein Ulijn.

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Details

• ISBN 978190558319
• Publisher Comma Press
• Genre Short Fiction
• Extent 288pp