Stephen Dedman

Stephen Dedman is an Australian writer of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels.

Biography

Dedman's short stories have appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Year's Best SF, and The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection.
Contributing as a story editor, Dedman is also one of the team members behind Borderlands, a tri-annual Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine published between 2003-2009 from Perth, Western Australia.
In 2007, he contributed to the Doctor Who short-story collection, Short Trips: Destination Prague.

Novels

The Art of Arrow-Cutting Shadows Bite Foreign Bodies Shadowrun: A Fistful of Data.Shadowrun: For a Few Nuyen More 2021

Story collections

The Lady of Situations Never Seen By Waking Eyes

''Charm, Strangeness, Mass and Spin''

Anthology contributions

''Black Box e-anthology''

Non-fiction works

Bone Hunters: On the Trail of the Dinosaurs May the Armed Forces Be With You: The Relationship Between Science Fiction and the United States Military 2016

Chapbooks

''The Dirty Little Unicorn''

Short stories

"The Lady of Situations" in Little Deaths
"Never Seen by Waking Eyes" in F&SF
"A Walk-On Part in the War" in Dreaming Down-Under
"Honest Ghosts" in Gothic.net July 1999
"A Sentiment Open to Doubt" in Ticonderoga Online May 2000
"Probable Cause" in Orb Speculative Fiction No. 2
"Wastelands" in Agog! Fantastic Fiction
"Madly" in Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural
"The Wind Shall Blow For Ever Mair" in Gathering the Bones
"Twilight of the Idols" in Conqueror Fantastic
"Dead of Winter" in Weird Tales March–April 2006
"Empathy" in Exotic Gothic 2
"Wetwork" in Spells & Chrome
"Fall" in Exotic Gothic 4
"Large Friendly Letters" in Use Only As Directed
"From Whom All Blessings Flow" Asimov's April 1995

Works edited

Consensual Consensual: the Second Coming Consensual a trois.

''Borderlands Magazine''

Awards

The Art of Arrow-Cutting was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in the category of Best First Novel. In 1998 Dedman's "A Walk-On Part in the War" won the 1998 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story. In 2001 "The Devotee" tied for the win with Terry Dowling's "The Saltimbanques" of the 2001 Ditmar Award for best short story. "Dead of Winter" won the 2006 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. Dedman has also received over 30 nominations for his work in awards such as the Aurealis Awards, Ditmar Awards, Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, the Bram Stoker Awards, and the Locus Awards.