Endeavour Award
1 appearances
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Edition 22 (2020) Winner
Matthew Hughes
マシュー・ヒューズ
Mashū Hyūzu
Aliases:
Matt Hughes
Pen Names:
Matt Hughes（Pen name for crime fiction）,
Hugh Matthews（Pen name for media tie-ins）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1949-05-01 （Liverpool, England）
- Nationality
- Canadian
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Unknown
- Residence History
- Canada (since age 5) → British Columbia → Various countries worldwide (housesitter since 2007)
Career
- Occupations
- author, speechwriter, journalist, housesitter
- Active Years
- 1994-
- Influenced By
- Jack Vance, Gene Wolfe, P. G. Wodehouse, Thorne Smith, L. Sprague de Camp, Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein
- Nominations
- Nebula Award nominee (The Helper and His Hero), Philip K. Dick Award nominee (The Other), Aurora Award nominee (Black Brillion)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Arthur Ellis Award | One More Kill | Best Crime Short Story | Crime Writers of Canada | winner |
| 2020 | Endeavour Award | What the Wind Brings | — | — | winner |
| 2020 | CSFFA Hall of Fame Trophy | — | — | Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association | inducted |
Arthur Ellis Award
2000
Work:
One More Kill
Category:
Best Crime Short Story
Organization:
Crime Writers of Canada
Result:
winner
Endeavour Award
2020
Work:
What the Wind Brings
Result:
winner
CSFFA Hall of Fame Trophy
2020
Organization:
Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association
Result:
inducted
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Fools Errant
1994 Science FictionFirst Archonate novel featuring the picaresque adventures of Filidor Vesh.
picaresqueArchonatescience and magic
Black Brillion
2004 Science FictionStory of Guth Bandar exploring the collective unconscious.
collective unconsciousdetective
Majestrum
2006 Science FictionFirst Henghis Hapthorn novel where rationalist detective faces the coming age of magic.
rationalismrise of magic
What the Wind Brings
2019 Slipstream historical magical realism16th-century Ecuador where African slaves and indigenous people resist conquistadors.
colonialismresistancemagical realism
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Jack Vance-inspired space opera and planetary romancehard-boiled crime in science-fictional modepicaresque
- Recurring Motifs
- cosmic shift from science to magicArchonate universecon men and detectives as protagonists
Legacy
Acclaimed as Jack Vance's heir apparent, Canadian SF author known for the Archonate series. Multiple award nominee, winner of 2020 Endeavour Award and inducted into CSFFA Hall of Fame.
Trivia
- Wrote authorized sequel to Jack Vance's Demon Princes: Barbarians of the Beyond.
- Married since late 1960s with three sons, one with high-functioning autism.
- Worked as speechwriter from 1982, later freelance.
- Supports writing career as housesitter since 2007.