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Colin Greenland

コリン・グリーンランド

Korin Gurīnrando

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1954-05-17 (Dover, Kent, England, UK)
Nationality
British
Languages
English

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Critic, Editor
Active Years
1982-2024
Affiliations
Science Fiction Foundation, Interzone editorial committee
Memberships
Science Fiction Foundation
Influenced By
Michael Moorcock
Nominations
1992 Philip K. Dick Award (Take Back Plenty)

Education

Pembroke College, Oxford
Degree: BA, MA, DPhil
Period: 1974-1981
Year of Graduation: 1981
Country: United Kingdom

Awards

BSFA award
1990
Work: Take Back Plenty
Organization: British SF Association
Result: winner
Arthur C. Clarke Award
1991
Work: Take Back Plenty
Organization: Arthur C. Clarke Award committee
Result: winner
Faber & Faber competition
1982
Work: short story
Organization: Faber & Faber
Result: second prize

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Take Back Plenty

1990 Science fiction

A space opera-style science fiction novel set in space.

Space explorationIdentity

Harm's Way

1993 Science fiction

Daybreak on a Different Mountain

1984 Science fiction

Bibliography

  • Daybreak on a Different Mountain
  • The Hour of the Thin Ox
  • Other Voices
  • Take Back Plenty
  • Seasons of Plenty
  • Mother of Plenty
  • Harm's Way
  • Spiritfeather
  • Finding Helen
  • The Plenty Principle

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Style influenced by New Wave SF
Recurring Motifs
Quest for Plenty

Legacy

Prominent British SF writer best known for Take Back Plenty, winner of BSFA and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. Also noted for SF criticism.

In Popular Culture

  • Close friend of Neil Gaiman

Trivia

  • Wife of Susanna Clarke
  • Good friends with Neil Gaiman