Simon Brown (author)
Simon Brown, is an Australian Science Fiction writer.
He originally trained as a journalist and worked for a range of Australian Government Departments, including the Australian Electoral Commission and the NSW Railways Department. He wrote science fiction short stories for many years and some of these have been collected in Cannibals in the Fine Light. A second collection of Iliad-themed stories, Troy, was published in 2006. He is a member of the Australian Skeptics and edited Skeptical – A handbook of pseudoscience and the paranormal in 1989. He was also an editor of Argos, the journal of the Canberra Skeptics.
He won the 2009 short story division of the Aurealis Award for his story "The Empire"Novels
- Privateer, HarperCollins Australia 1996
- Winter, HarperCollins Australia 1997
- Inheritance: Book 1 of the Keys of Power, HarperCollins Australia, 2000
- Fire and Sword: Book 2 of the Keys of Power, HarperCollins Australia, 2001
- Sovereign: Book 3 of the Keys of Power, HarperCollins Australia, 2002
- Empire's Daughter: Book 1 of the Chronicles of Kydan, Pan MacMillan Australia, 2004
- Rival's Son: Book 2 of the Chronicles of Kydan, Pan MacMillan Australia, 2004
- By Sea Divided: Book 3 of the Chronicles of Kydan, Pan MacMillan Australia, 2005
Collections
- Cannibals of the Fine Light, Ticonderoga Publications, April 1998
- Troy, Ticonderoga Publications, 2006
- "With Clouds at Our Feet" in Dreaming Down-Under
- "Water Babies |Water Babies" in Agog! Smashing Stories
- "Leviathan |Leviathan" in Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005
Other works
- Skeptical – A Handbook of pseudoscience and the paranormal, Ed Donald Laycock, David Vernon, Colin Groves, Simon Brown, Imagecraft, Canberra, 1989.
Awards
- "Atrax" Aurealis Award for Horror Short Fiction, 1999
- "Love is a Stone", Aurealis Award for Horror Short Fiction, 2003
- "The Empire" Aurealis Award for Science Fiction Short Fiction, 2008
