| Born in London, Ontario, Pat Forde now resides in
Waterloo, where he writes fiction about complexity theory, the impact of
emerging science on geopolitics, n-dimensional threads through history,
time travel, and tales that might generally be called
"civilization thrillers".
Pat's novella "In Spirit"
is a 2003
Hugo Award nominee, won the Analog
readers award (AnLab) for best novella of the year, was a Nebula
Award preliminary nominee and made the Locus
magazine Recommended
Reading List for 2002. Pat has had the lead story in an all-Canadian
Tesseracts
anthology, and you can hear a reading of his fiction in the Best
of Analog Science Fiction and Fact audio anthology (available now
for download).
Pat's first sale also won the Analog Readers Award (Anlab)
in the best novelette category, and received a Sturgeon
Award Honorable Mention. He is currently working on several writing
projects.
As an alumni of the Center for
the Study of Science Fiction writers workshop, Pat encourages
interested writers to sample the Center's array of essays
on SF by award-winning critic and workshop leader James
Gunn. Pat has also benefited from wonderful encounters over the
years within the community of Canadian SF authors, including advice from
the knowledgeable James
Alan Gardner (check out his terrific Seminar
on Writing Prose, a must read for aspiring writers); encouragement
from Julie
Czerneda (for snippets of fiction by emerging writers, drop in to
see Julie's SFF.Net
newsgroup); and direction from Robert
Sawyer, a marvelous teacher and spokesperson for the SF field (whose
homepage is an SF universe unto
itself).
Pat's award-winning short fiction will soon be available from Fictionwise.com.
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INTERESTING LINKS
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For Aspiring SF Writers
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World Affairs/Civilization Studies
Wild Online Fiction Experiments
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