“I
think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions
and characters, to write the story.” – Eric Brown
Born in England on this date in 1960, Brown
began writing in 1975, but didn’t officially break onto the scene until the
1982 with the publication of his children’s play, Noel's Ark. His career took off in the late 1980s with a
succession of short stories, led by "The Time-Lapsed Man," also the
title of a best-selling collection of his stories. In 1988, “Time-Lapsed Man” was selected by
the Interzone magazine’s readers' poll as its most admired story.
Brown also has been voted the Best New European
SciFi Writer of the Year (in 1991) and has twice won the British Science
Fiction Award for his short stories "Hunting the Slarque” and
"Children of Winter.” Since the
early 1990s he has published two dozen novels, over a dozen novellas, numerous
children’s books, and 10 story collections.
His newest book, just out this month, is Buying Time, a clever and hard-to-put-down time travel
adventure. As for advice to new writers,
he says this about writing short stories:
“The market for short stories is
hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names
with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by
newcomers, if those tales are good.”
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