Dominic Green (science fiction writer)
Dominic Green is a British writer of short science fiction. His short story "The Clockwork Atom Bomb" was nominated for a 2005 Hugo Award. Green is best known for his stories published in Interzone during the 1990s and 2000s, many of which have been reprinted in various Year's Best anthologies. Interzone published a special issue devoted to Green and his stories in July 2009.
Biography
Green has lived for much of his life in Bakewell and Northampton. He graduated in English from St Catharine's College, Cambridge and works in information technology. He is married to the painter Allyson X. Green and until recently taught Kung Fu part-time.In 2010, Fingerpress brought out Green's first published novel, Smallworld. In 2011, he electronically published a young adult SF novel, Saucerers and Gondoliers, the first of a series set in and around the fictional United States of the Zodiac, a secret set of colonies in space involved in a struggle for independence from Britain and the United States, as well as political and military intrigue involving the former Soviet colonies and alien/Nazi symbiotes. The series is named after its two primary characters, Anthony Stevens and Cleopatra Shakespeare, two UFO-abducted teenagers from Northampton.
Short stories
- "Moving Mysteriously"
- "Evertrue Carnadine"
- "Everywhen"
- "The Cozumel Incident"
- "King's Chamber"
- "Queen of the Hill"
- "That Thing Over There"
- "Something Chronic"
- "Rude Elves and Dread Norse Reindeer"
- "Queen of Hearts"
- "Blue Water, Grey Death"
- "News from Hilaria"
- "Send Me A Mentagram"
- "The Rule of Terror"
- "Three Lions on the Armband"
- "Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Lost World"
- "The Clockwork Atom Bomb"
- "Butterfly Bomb", "Coat of Many Colours" and "Glister"
- "Shining Armor" ; featured in Locus's recommended reading list
Novels and series
- The Space Opera on Mount Ararat series:
- * Book 1 - Smallworld
- * Book 2 - Littlestar
- The Ant and Cleo series:
- * Book 1 - Saucerers and Gondoliers
- * Book 2 - Sister Ships and Alastair
- * Book 3 - There Ain't Gonna Be No World War Three
- * Book 4 - Destination Alpha Four
- * Book 5 - Dog on the Highway
- * Book 6 - At the Goings Down of the Suns
- * Book 7 - Time Held Me Green and Dying
- * Book 8 - The Moon a Ghostly Galleon
- * Book 9 - Today's Stars for Dinosaurus
- * Book 10 - Make Omicron Eridani Great Again
- * Book 11 - On A Small World West Of Wonder
- * Book 12 - We Have Been in Hell Before Warlords of Llantatis Elder Shepherd Cowboys & Dinosaurs
- The Marshal College series:
- * Book 1 - Phil and the Death Machine
- The Big Sis series:
- * Book 1 - ''Twinkle, Twinkle, Collapsar''