The Australian popular science magazine Cosmos serialized an earlier version of the novel on its website, where it got some 100,000 hits. Broderick was founding science fiction editor of the [Read it all...]]]> The near-future science fiction novel Post Mortal Syndrome, by San Antonio’s Damien Broderick and his wife Barbara Lamar is now available in trade paperback print.

The Australian popular science magazine Cosmos serialized an earlier version of the novel on its website, where it got some 100,000 hits. Broderick was founding science fiction editor of the magazine, serving in that position until late 2010.

Wildside Press’ Borgo imprint released the book version of Post Mortal Syndrome earlier this month.

“We tried to do the impossible thing for a thriller aimed at the mass market: depict scientific developments and paradigm change in a (cautiously) positive light and the enemies of life extension and human enhancement as the deathists they are,” Broderick says.

Warriors of the Tao collects 16 essays of sf criticism.

Broderick [Read it all...]]]>

Warriors of the Tao collects 16 essays of sf criticism.

Broderick and Ikin penned separate introductions, and the volume also includes 16 essays examining, among other things, Cordwainer Smith as an ethical pragmatist, the non-sf novels of Philip K. Dick, Samuel R. Delany’s “Driftglass,” and sex and sexuality in sf.

“It’s quite a beautiful trade paperback, with a very cool cover by my polymathic neuroscientist pal Anders Sandberg,” Damien says. “I hope a few people are intrigued enough to take a look and even (gasp!) buy a copy.”

And, he points out, it’s also available “dirt cheap” on Nook, Kindle and other e-book formats.

Damien Broderick

For the second year running, the transplanted Australian has landed a story on the nominations list for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

Broderick’s “Under the Moons of Venus,” however, lost out to Geoffrey A. Landis’ “The Sultan of the Clouds” [Read it all...]]]>

Damien Broderick

For the second year running, the transplanted Australian has landed a story on the nominations list for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

Broderick’s “Under the Moons of Venus,” however, lost out to Geoffrey A. Landis’ “The Sultan of the Clouds” last weekend at the Center for the Study of Science Fiction’s annual Campbell Conference, held at Kansas University. In 2010, his “This Wind Blowing, and This Tide” garnered a second-place tie for the annual award, which recognizes the year’s best sf short fiction.

The Sturgeon is presented in conjunction with the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel. This year, Ian McDonald’s “The Dervish House” took home that distinction.

Here’s this year’s full list of Sturgeon nominees:
Eleanor Arnason “Mammoths of the Great Plains”
Damien Broderick “Under the Moons of Venus”
Elizabeth Hand “The Maiden Flight of McAuley’s Bellerophon”
Geoffrey A. Landis “The Sultan of the Clouds”
Yoon Ha Lee “Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain”
Paul Park “Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance”
Robert Reed “Dead Man’s Run”
Alastair Reynolds “Troika”
Steve Rasnic Tem “A Letter from the Emperor”
Lavie Tidhar “The Night Train”
Peter Watts “The Things”

And Campbell nominees:
Jon Armstrong Yarn
Greg Bear Hull Zero Three
William Gibson Zero History
Tom McCarthy C
Ian McDonald The Dervish House
Adam Roberts New Model Army
Hannu Rajaniemi The Quantum Thief
Gavin Smith Veteran
Sheri S. Tepper The Waters Rising
Jean-Christophe Valtat Aurorarama
E. O. Wilson Anthill
Connie Willis Blackout / All Clear
Charles Yu How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

San Antonio-based sf author Damien Broderick has hit the ground running in 2011.

Fantastic Books has just released “The Qualia Engine,” Broderick’s first U.S. sf short story collection, a companion to last year’s novella collection “Uncle Bones.” The [Read it all...]]]>

The correct cover of Damien Broderick's "Embarrass My Dog" shows the author as a hippie dog.

San Antonio-based sf author Damien Broderick has hit the ground running in 2011.

Fantastic Books has just released “The Qualia Engine,” Broderick’s first U.S. sf short story collection, a companion to last year’s novella collection “Uncle Bones.” The book includes the story that was runner-up for 2010′s Theodore Sturgeon Award, “This Wind Blowing, and This Tide,” and a mix of recent and earlier stories. The evocative cover is by British cyber artist Squirrel.

“It’s the closest thing I have to a ‘Best of,’” Broderick said.

Also new on the shelves is “Embarrass My Dog: The Way We Were, the Things We Thought” from Wildside/Borgo, which Broderick describes as “a gathering of essays on sex, drugs, religion, and weird shit, and even a bit of rock ‘n’ roll, from the 1960s through to now.” The works aren’t sf-oriented, according Broderick, other than being “grounded in (his) science fiction imagination.”

“‘Embarrass My Dog’ is a quote from an Emily Dickinson poem, and the cover shows youthful me as a, well, hippie dog,” Broderick added. “There was also a small embarrassment when the first copies rolled out, and someone noticed that the designer had mistakenly put the wrong title–EMBARRASS THE DOG–on the front cover. That’s been fixed now, I’m told, but I’ve tucked two of the munged copies away in the hopes that my grandchildren will be able to sell them to an eccentric collector when I’m dead and frozen. Actually I don’t have any kids, so I’m not sure how I’ll have grandchildren, maybe cloning will do it…”

In a retro mood, readers?

San Antonio sf writer DAMIEN BRODERICK has collaborated with author Rory Barnes on HUMAN’S BURDEN, a short novel just published by Wildside/Borgo in an updated version of the classic pulp Doubles format made popular by Ace Books.

If you’ve combed through the [Read it all...]]]>

Damien Broderick finally gets an Emsh cover.

In a retro mood, readers?

San Antonio sf writer DAMIEN BRODERICK has collaborated with author Rory Barnes on HUMAN’S BURDEN, a short novel just published by Wildside/Borgo in an updated version of the classic pulp Doubles format made popular by Ace Books.

If you’ve combed through the racks of dusty used book stores (or if you’re old as Scott Cupp…har har), you know the type of book we’re talking about: You flip them over, and there’s another short novel starting on the opposite cover.

In the case of the new Broderick-Barnes novel, the work on the flip-side is a Robert Sheckley reprint. And to Broderick’s excitement, the publisher also arranged to recycle two mid-1950s covers by the famed artist Emsh (Ed Emshwiller).

“I’ve yearned to have an Emsh cover since I was 14 and reading THE STARS MY DESTINATION in Galaxy magazine,” Broderick said. “So woo hoo!”

San Antonio’s Damien Broderick has won the A. Bertram Chandler Award, given more-or-less yearly by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation to recognize authors for “outstanding achievement in Australian science fiction.”

It’s just the latest in a nice string of coups for the transplanted Aussie, whose short story “This [Read it all...]]]>

Author, critic and award-winner Damien Broderick

San Antonio’s Damien Broderick has won the A. Bertram Chandler Award, given more-or-less yearly by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation to recognize authors for “outstanding achievement in Australian science fiction.”

It’s just the latest in a nice string of coups for the transplanted Aussie, whose short story “This Wind Blowing, and This Tide” tied for the second-place Sturgeon Award this year and landed in several “Best of…” anthologies. He’s also seen stateside release of his alien abduction novel (with Rory Barnes) called “Dark Gray” and the publication of Climbing Mount Implausible: The Evolution of a Science Fiction Writer, a recent collection of early work and notes. In addition, he edited Skiffy and Memesis, a collection of critical essays from Australian SF Review.

Broderick’s latest award is named for SF writer and longtime Australian SF Foundation patron A. Bertram Chandler and decided upon by a jury. The first Chandler Award was presented in 1992 to Van Ikin at Australia’s National Science Fiction Convention. Other recent winners have included Lee Harding, Bruce Gillespie and Rosaleen Love.

A new collection of critical essays edited by Damien Broderick. According to Broderick, the Skiffy and Mimesis of the title are not a pair of performing kangaroos.

As it [Read it all...]]]>

A new collection of critical essays edited by Damien Broderick. According to Broderick, the Skiffy and Mimesis of the title are not a pair of performing kangaroos.

As it sounds, the book is a collection of essays from the critical journal Australian SF Review. It includes contributions by authors such as Gregory Benford, Janeen Webb, Lucius Shepard, Jenny Blackford, George Turner, Yvonne Rousseau, Douglas Barbour and covers subjects as diverse as the Watchmen and Ursula K. Le Guin.

According to Damien, the rendering by Oxford University neurophilosopher Anders Sandberg “really glows on the glossy cover of the trade paperback.” He also wants us to know that Skiffy and Mimesis “are not a pair of performing kangaroos, and don’t believe anyone who tells you otherwise.”

Completists may want to note that Damien also edited last year’s Chained to the Alien: The Best of Australian SF Review.

LAWRENCE, KANS. — Sometime San Antonian Damien Broderick’s short story “This Wind Blowing, and this Tide” tied for second place for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His story was neck-and-neck in voting with Sara Genge’s “As Women Fight” and John Barnes’ “Things Undone.”

The first-place Sturgeon went to James [Read it all...]]]>

James Morrow's "Shambling Towards Hiroshima"

LAWRENCE, KANS. — Sometime San Antonian Damien Broderick’s short story “This Wind Blowing, and this Tide” tied for second place for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His story was neck-and-neck in voting with Sara Genge’s “As Women Fight” and John Barnes’ “Things Undone.”

The first-place Sturgeon went to James Morrow’s novella “Shambling Towards Hiroshima.” The award recognizes the year’s best science fiction short fiction.

At the same award ceremony, Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel. The book already has won the Nebula Award and the Locus Award (for best first novel).

Both the Sturgeon and Campbell Award are presented annually at the Campbell Conference at Kansas University in conjunction with a pair of SF writing workshops and an intensive course on teaching science fiction. Other events included a discussion of Theodore Sturgeon’s impact on short fiction and a series of readings of Sturgeon’s work.

Broderick's Dark Gray finally sighted over U.S. shores.

First, Damien’s story “This Wind Blowing, and This Tide,” is a finalist for a 2010 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, a juried award that recognizes the previous year’s outstanding [Read it all...]]]>

Broderick's Dark Gray finally sighted over U.S. shores.

First, Damien’s story “This Wind Blowing, and This Tide,” is a finalist for a 2010 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, a juried award that recognizes the previous year’s outstanding science fiction short stories. The award will be presented July 18 at the Campbell Conference, a science fiction literary gathering held annually at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. The story, which first appeared in Asimov’s, is already slated to appear in a few of the year’s “Best of…” collections.

Second, Fantastic Books has just released a U.S. edition of Dark Gray, a novel of UFO abduction by Damien and fellow Aussie Rory Barnes. According to Damien, “the novel hovers (sort of like a flying saucer in need of a carwash) between dirty realism, comedy and science fiction.” The tome was published by HarperCollins in Australia a few years ago under the title The Book of Revelation.

No word on whether Damien is more fond of Cooper’s or Broken Hill, but please make it something more upscale than Foster’s.

Broderick's latest appears both online and in Subterranean Magazine.

Well, luck has it that San Antonio’s DAMIEN BRODERICK has a new one online at SUBTERRANEAN PRESS. And it’s free.

Although Damien enlisted the aid of his rocket scientist pal Spike Jones for some of [Read it all...]]]>

Broderick's latest appears both online and in Subterranean Magazine.

Well, luck has it that San Antonio’s DAMIEN BRODERICK has a new one online at SUBTERRANEAN PRESS. And it’s free.

Although Damien enlisted the aid of his rocket scientist pal Spike Jones for some of the story’s orbital calculations, he advised us not to be daunted. The story, which also appears in the Spring 2010 issue of Subterranean Magazine, is not an Analog-style nuts-and-bolts yarn.

“At least one of the people in this story is mad as a hatter,” Damien said. “Maybe more, to say nothing of the dog…”