Simon Brown (author)

Simon Brown (born 1956 in Sydney, New South Wales[1]), is an Australian science fiction writer.

For other people with the same name, see Simon Brown (disambiguation).

Simon Brown
Born1956
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

He originally trained as a journalist and worked for a range of Australian Government Departments, including the Australian Electoral Commission and the NSW Railways Department. He wrote science fiction short stories for many years and some of these have been collected in Cannibals in the Fine Light (1998). A second collection of Iliad-themed stories, Troy, was published in 2006. He is a member of the Australian Skeptics and edited Skeptical – A handbook of pseudoscience and the paranormal in 1989. He was also an editor of Argos, the journal of the Canberra Skeptics.

He won the 2009 short story division of the Aurealis Award for his story "The Empire" [2]

Publications

Novels
  • Privateer, HarperCollins Australia 1996
  • Winter, HarperCollins Australia 1997
  • Inheritance: Book 1 of the Keys of Power, HarperCollins Australia, 2000
  • Fire and Sword: Book 2 of the Keys of Power, HarperCollins Australia, 2001
  • Sovereign: Book 3 of the Keys of Power, HarperCollins Australia, 2002
  • Empire's Daughter: Book 1 of the Chronicles of Kydan, Pan MacMillan Australia, 2004
  • Rival's Son: Book 2 of the Chronicles of Kydan, Pan MacMillan Australia, 2004
  • Daughter of Independence: Book 3 of the Chronicles of Kydan, Pan MacMillan Australia, 2005

Collections

Selected short fiction

Other works

Awards

References
  1. Austlit – Simon Brown
  2. Brown, Charles N. . The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards. Locus magazine
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