Geoff Ryman bibliography


Geoff Ryman is a writer of science fiction, fantasy and slipstream fiction. Ryman has written and published seven novels, including an early example of a hypertext novel, 253. He has won multiple awards, including the World Fantasy Award.

Novels

''The Warrior Who Carried Life''

This novel was nominated for the BSFA Award for Best Novel.
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''The Child Garden''

This novel won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
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''Was''

This novel was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award—Novel.
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''253'' (or, ''Tube Theatre'')

The print version won a Philip K. Dick Award.
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''Lust''

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''Air: Or, Have Not Have''

This novel won the BSFA Award for Best Novel, the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and was short-listed for a Nebula Award for Best Novel. It was expanded to a novel from the short story "Have Not Have".
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''The King's Last Song''

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''Him''

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Short fiction

;CollectionsUnconquered Countries: Four Novellas
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TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
Days of wonder2008Novelette
The diary of the translator1976
Have not have2001Expanded into the novel Air.
Zoo Story1979
The Unconquered Country1984Published as a stand-alone novel and as a novella in the collection Unconquered Countries.
O Happy Day!1985
Love Sickness1987This formed the first section of A Child Garden.
Omnisexual1990
Dead Space for the Unexpected1994
Fan1994
A Fall of Angels, or On the Possibility of Life Under Extreme Conditions1994
Home1995
Warmth1995
Family, or The Nativity and Flight into Egypt Considered as Episodes of I Love Lucy1998
Everywhere1999
V.A.O.2002
Birth Days2003
The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero Kai2005
Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter 2006
Talk Is Cheap2008
Days of Wonder2008
Blocked2009
The Film-makers of Mars2010
What We Found2011
The Many Different Kinds of Love 2023Novella

Anthology

Other publications

Ryman contributed to ''When it changed: ‘real science’ Science Fiction''