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INTRODUCTION

A novelist, futurist, and critical theorist, Damien Broderick is an honorary senior research Fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia and holds a multi-disciplinary PhD from Deakin University in the comparative semiotics of science and literature.

Broderick has been awarded Literature Board Writing Fellowships by the Australian Council in 1980, 1984, 1990, 1995, and 2003; and writing grants from Deakin University in 1986 and Arts Victoria in 1998. He was awarded the 1980 Ditmar for best Australian SF Novel; in1985 a Special Ditmar Award; the 1989 and 1998 Ditmar Awards, the 1998 Aurealis Award, the 2002 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of 2002, and the 2002 Ditmar for best Australian Collected Work.

In 2005, he received the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

He lives in Melbourne, Australia, and San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Broderick has published more than 30 books (see bibliography) and is also a prolific book reviewer.

"Forty years after launching his career, Broderick has gone from enfant terrible—a precocious, brilliant and outspoken young writer—to éminence grise. As well as being a distinguished novelist, he is now one of the world's leading commentators on the SF Genre, and on the implications of advanced technology."
Russell Blackford, in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection

"Prodigy? Polymath? Broderick is a living, breathing, twenty-first century Renaissance Human. "
Dr. Van Ikin, editor SCIENCE FICTION: A Review of Speculative Literature

"For quite a few years now, readers have been asking me, Who is the new Phil Dick? Who'll be the Zelazny of this generation? Where are the next Frederik Pohl, the replacement for Robert Sheckley, the Damon Knight of the new millennium? Who's writing stuff like they did in the Golden Age--stuff that surprises and delights me with new, unexpected ways of looking at the universe, new ways of telling a story, new ways of thinking? It is nice to have at least one answer: they're in Australia, and their name is Damien Broderick."
Spider Robinson, co-author of VARIABLE STAR

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