Richard Garfinkle

American writer of science fiction (born 1961)
Richard Garfinkle
Born1961 (age 62–63)
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
EducationClarion West Writers Workshop
GenreScience fiction
Notable awardsCompton Crook Award (1997)
SpouseAlessandra Kelley
Children2
Website
www.richardgarfinkle.com/index.html

Richard Garfinkle (born 1961) is an American writer of science fiction.

He is best known as the author of Celestial Matters, a novel published by Tor Books, which won the Compton Crook Award in 1997.[1]

Garfinkle is a 1992 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and was nominated twice for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.[citation needed]

He has taught at numerous writers' workshops at Windycon, an annual Chicago-area science fiction convention,[citation needed] and at Chicon 2000, the 58th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Chicago.[2] He's married to Alessandra Kelley and has two daughters.[3]

Bibliography

  • Celestial Matters (novel, Tor Books, April 1996). ISBN 0-312-85934-1
  • All of an Instant (novel, Tor Books, November 1999). One of the most original sci fi novels of all time. ISBN 0-312-86617-8
  • "The Last Invasion of Ireland" in Once Upon a Galaxy, Wil McCarthy, Martin H. Greenberg, and John Helfers, eds. (collection, Daw Books, September 2002). ISBN 0-7564-0091-0
  • Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter (nonfiction, with brother David Garfinkle, University of Chicago Press, November 2008). ISBN 0-226-28346-1
  • Exaltations (novel, Achronal Press, June 2009). ISBN 978-0-578-03514-7
  • Wayland's Principia (novel, Achronal Press, August 2009). ISBN 978-0-578-02362-5

References

  1. ^ "Compton Crook Award Winners". Baltimore Science Fiction Society. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
  2. ^ Chicago 2000 World Science Fiction Convention page
  3. ^ "Richard Garfinkle Science Fiction and Other Links".

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