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Geoff Ryman is a Canadian living in London. When he was a child, the backroads in Canada were unpaved and rabid foxes would come out of the woods, needing to be shot. He saw the first broadcast of The Wizard of Oz on US TV. He failed to see Elvis Presley on Ed Sullivan because he was sent from the room. He would cycle five miles to the nearest shop to buy Superman and Batman comic books and took a special trip to Toronto to see Ben Hur.

Geoff Ryman

He's published eight novels, one short story collection and edited an anthology of Canadian SF. His shorter fiction has won the British Science Fiction Association Award twice and the World Fantasy Award. The Child Garden won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the John W Campbell Memorial Award (first place). WAS, a mainstream historical novel about the American West and Oz won the Eastercon Award as Most Enjoyable Novel. 253, a novel for the Internet in seven cars and a crash, won the Philip K Dick Award. Air has won the Arthur C Clarke Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Canadian Sunburst Award and the James Tiptree, Jr Award. It was also nominated for the Nebula and Philip K Dick Awards and placed in the John W Campbell Memorial Award.

Geoff has promised he will NOT arrive bearing all the awards with him personally. He currently teaches Creative Writing on the University of Manchester undergraduate and MA programmes.

Bibliography:

The Warrior Who Carried Life (1985)
The Unconquered Country (1986)
The Child Garden (1989)
Was (1992)
Unconquered Countries: Four Novellas (1994)
253 (1998)
Lust (2001)
Air (2002)
V.A.O. (2002)
Lust: Four Letters. Infinite Possibilities. (2003)
9 Tesseracts Nine (2005), with Nalo Hopkinson
The King's Last Song (2006)