Michael Pryor


Michael Pryor is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.

Biography

Pryor was born in Swan Hill, Victoria and currently lives in Melbourne with his wife and two daughters. His first work to be published was the short story "Talent" in 1990, which was published in Aurealis No. 1. He received his first nomination for his work in 1993 when the short story "It's All in the Way You Look at It" was nominated for the Ditmar Award for best short fiction, however it lost to Greg Egan's "Closer". In 1996 Pryor released his first novel, The Mask of Caliban, which was a finalist for the 1997 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel. In 2003 he started writing novels in The Quentaris Chronicles, a shared universe with several other authors. In 2015, Pryor switched gears to writing books for children. He first published Leo da Vinci Vs. The Ice-Cream Domination League in 2015, then three other books for children up to the present, with Gap Year in Ghost Town being nominated for the Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel in 2017. Pryor has been nominated for an Aurealis Award a total of nine occasions with the most recent being in 2018 for his short story "First Casualty".

Novels

Doorways Trilogy
The Quentaris Chronicles
  • Beneath Quentaris
  • Quentaris in Flames
  • Stones of Quentaris
  • Nightmare in Quentaris
  • Stars of Quentaris
  • Battle for Quentaris
The Laws of Magic
  • Blaze of Glory
  • Heart of Gold
  • Word of Honour
  • Time of Trial
  • Moment of Truth
  • Hour of Need
The Chronicles of Krangor
The Extraordinaires
  • The Extinction Gambit
  • The Subterranean Stratagem
Leo Da VinciLeo da Vinci Vs. The Ice-Cream Domination League Leo Da Vinci Vs. The Furniture Overlord
Ghost Town
  • Gap Year in Ghost Town
  • Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town
Other novels
  • The Mask of Caliban
  • Talent
  • Cosmic Cook
  • Blackout
  • Bruno Trask & The Dark Lady's Jewel
  • 10 Futures
  • ''Machine Wars''

Short fiction

  • "Talent" in Aurealis No. 1
  • "Softly They Go Feral in the Night" in Aurealis No. 4
  • "Long Live the King" in Aurealis No. 6
  • "It's All in the Way You Look at It" in Aurealis No. 10
  • "Shadows on the Heart" in Aurealis No. 12
  • "Home Free" in The Patternmaker : Nine Science Fiction Stories
  • "Hunter of Darkness, Hunter of Light" in Aurealis No. 15
  • "Time to Burn" in Aurealis No. 18
  • "Australian Visions" in Aurealis #20/21
  • "Room for Improvement" in Gadgets and Gizmos
  • "Sewercide" in Aurealis #25/26
  • "EvilCo" in Aurealis #27/28
  • "Waste" in ''Forever Shores''

Essays

  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Otto Greenbach in Aurealis No. 1
  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: E. Freeport Rickenbacker in Aurealis No. 2
  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Wanda Stambridge in Aurealis No. 4
  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Bamber Fortescue in Aurealis No. 5
  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Cosmo Tucker in Aurealis No. 6
  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: G. K. "Doc" Tolliday, D.D. in Aurealis No. 7
  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Anna Michailovna Tikhonova in Aurealis No. 8
  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Gaston La Rue in Aurealis No. 9
  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Malcolm Corkindale in Aurealis No. 10
  • Classic SF in Aurealis #27/28
  • The Art of Successful Collaboration in Aurealis #33–35,
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Nominations

Aurealis Awards
Ditmar Awards