Eric Brown (writer)

Eric Brown (writer)
Eric Brown (24 May 1960 – 21 March 2023) was a British science fiction author and Guardian critic.
Biography
Eric Brown was born in Haworth, Yorkshire, in May 1960, and began writing in 1975. In the 1980s he travelled extensively throughout Greece and Asia (some of his novels are set in India). His first publication was in 1982, when his play for children Noel's Ark appeared.
His career took off in the late 1980s with a succession of short stories in the magazine Interzone and other publications. His story "The Time-Lapsed Man" won the Interzone readers' poll for the most admired story of 1988, and an Eastercon short text award in 1995. He was voted the Best New European SF writer of the Year in the early 1990s and subsequently won the British Science Fiction Award twice (for the short stories "Hunting the Slarque" in 1999 and "Children of Winter" in 2001).
Brown publicly admired the science fiction writing of Michael G. Coney, Robert Silverberg, Richard Paul Russo and Robert Charles Wilson, amongst others.
Brown died from sepsis on 21 March 2023, at the age of 62.
Bibliography
Novels
Meridian Days. London: Pan, 1992 (paper).
Engineman. London: Pan, 1994 (paper).
Penumbra. London: Millennium, 1999 (paper).
the Virex trilogy
New York Nights. London: Gollancz, 2000.
New York Blues. London: Gollancz, 2001.
New York Dreams. London: Gollancz, 2004 (paper).
Bengal Station. Waterville, ME: Five Star Books, 2004.
Helix. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2007 (paper).
Kéthani. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2008 (paper).
Bengal Station
Necropath. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2009 (paper).
Xenopath. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper).
Cosmopath. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper).
Engineman. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper).
Guardians of the Phoenix. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2010 (paper).
The Kings of Eternity. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2011 (paper).
Weird Space: The Devil's Nebula. Abaddon, 2012 (paper).
Helix Wars. Nottingham: Solaris Books, 2012 (paper).
Serene Invasion. Abaddon, 2013 (paper).
Weird Space: Satan's Reach. Abaddon, 2013 (paper).
Weird Space: The Baba Yaga. Abaddon, 2015 (paper).
Novellas
A Writer's Life. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2001.
Approaching Omega. Tolworth, Surrey: Telos Publishing, 2005.
The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2005.
Gilbert and Edgar on Mars. Hornsea: PS Publishing, 2009.
Starship
Starship Summer. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2007.
Starship Fall. Harrogate: NewCon Press, 2009.
Starship Winter. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2012.
Starship Spring. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2012.
Starship Coda. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2016.
The Telemass Quartet
Famadihana on Fomalhaut IV. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2014.
Sacrifice on Spica III. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2014.
Reunion on Alpha Reticuli II. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2016.
Exalted on Bellatrix 1. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2017.
Telemass Coda. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2019.
The Kon-tiki Quartet, with Keith Brooke
Dislocations. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2018.
Parasites. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2018.
Insights. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2019.
Collections
The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories. London: Pan, 1990 (paper).
Blue Shifting. London: Pan, 1995 (paper).
Parallax View, with Keith Brooke. Mountain Ash, Wales: Sarob Press, 2000.
Deep Future. Canton, OH: Cosmos Books, 2001.
The Fall of Tartarus. London: Gollancz, 2005 (paper).
Threshold Shift. Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon Press, 2006.
Parallax View, with Keith Brooke. Stafford: Immanion Press, 2007 (paper).
Salvage. Infinity Plus Books, 2013 (paper).
Starship Seasons. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2013. - A collection of the first four Starship novellas.
Children's books
The Web
Untouchable. London: Dolphin, 1997 (paper).
Walkabout. London: Dolphin, 1999 (paper).
Twocking. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2002 (paper).
Firebug. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2003 (paper).
British Front. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2005 (paper).
Space Ace. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2005 (paper).
Crazy Love. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2006 (paper).
Revenge (Most Wanted). Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2007 (paper).
References
External resources
Official website
Eric Brown's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online
Infinity Plus has a short profile of Eric Brown, as well as an interview conducted by Keith Brooke and an earlier conversation between the two, and Brooke's introduction to Brown's collection Deep Future.
Fantastic Fiction page on Eric Brown
Ghostwriting review
Serene Invasion review
Eric Brown : Story behind The Serene Invasion - Online Essay at Upcoming4.me
Eric Brown : Story behind Satan's Reach - Online Essay at Upcoming4.me
Eric Brown : Story behind Salvage - Online Essay at Upcoming4.me
Eric Brown : Story behind Murder by the Book - Online Essay at Upcoming4.me
The story behind Jani and the Greater Game - Essay by Eric Brown at Upcoming4.me
1960 births
2023 deaths
Deaths from sepsis
English science fiction writers
People from Haworth
English male novelists
Writers from Yorkshire
The Guardian journalists
English literary critics