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"

Publications

Novels

Privateer, HarperCollins Australia 1996Winter, HarperCollins Australia 1997Inheritance: Book 1 of the Keys of Power, HarperCollins Australia, 2000Fire and Sword: Book 2 of the Keys of Power, HarperCollins Australia, 2001Sovereign: Book 3 of the Keys of Power, HarperCollins Australia, 2002Empire's Daughter: Book 1 of the Chronicles of Kydan, Pan MacMillan Australia, 2004Rival's Son: Book 2 of the Chronicles of Kydan, Pan MacMillan Australia, 2004Daughter of Independence: Book 3 of the Chronicles of Kydan, Pan MacMillan Australia, 2005

Collections

Cannibals of the Fine Light, Ticonderoga Publications, April 1998Troy, Ticonderoga Publications, 2006

Selected short fiction

Other works

Skeptical – A Handbook of pseudoscience and the paranormal, Ed Donald Laycock, David Vernon, Colin Groves, Simon Brown, Imagecraft, Canberra, 1989.

Awards