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Damien Broderick (born 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. He holds a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from Deakin University, Australia, with a dissertation in the comparative semiotics of scientific, literary and science fictional textuality. He is a Senior Fellow in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. Broderick lives in Melbourne, Victoria, and San Antonio and Lockhart, Texas, with his wife, tax attorney Barbara Lamar. He is the science fiction editor of the Australian popular-science magazine Cosmos. Image File history File links Damien_wiki3. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This article is not about the magazine, Popular Science Popular science is interpretation of science intended for a general audience, rather than for other scientists or students. ... Deakin University is an Australian university based in Geelong, Warrnambool and Melbourne, Victoria. ... The Old Quad Building, formerly Old Law The University of Melbourne, located in Melbourne, Victoria, is the second oldest university in Australia, after the University of Sydney. ...

Four of his novels have won Ditmar Awards (including the non-SF Transmitters, which was given a special award); the first, The Dreaming Dragons, was runner-up for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. In November, 2003 he was awarded a grant for 2004-05 by the Australia Council to write fiction exploring the technological singularity. In March, 2005 he received the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. The Ditmar Award (formally the Australian SF (Ditmar) Award; formerly the Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award) has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (the Natcon) to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction (including fantasy and horror) and science fiction fandom. ... The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel has been awarded every year since 1973, except in 1994. ... When plotted on a logarithmic graph, 15 separate lists of paradigm shifts for key events in human history show an exponential trend. ...

His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality". Virtual Reality (VR) is an environment that is simulated by a computer. ...

Broderick's best-known works as a futurist and science writer are The Spike (1997; revised 2001), a nonfiction work about the technological singularity; and The Last Mortal Generation (1999) on the prospect of radically extended youthful longevity. This article is about the art movement, futurism. ... When plotted on a logarithmic graph, 15 separate lists of paradigm shifts for key events in human history show an exponential trend. ...

His recent novel, The Hunger of Time (2003), has been published as an ebook and in Print on Demand (PoD) format. His most recent critical studies, x, y, z, t: Dimensions of Science Fiction (2004) and Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the New Enlightenment (2005) were also released in PoD format. The first two of these books have cover art by Swedish transhumanist Anders Sandberg, as does his critical science fiction anthology Earth is but a Star (2001). Anders Sandberg (b. ...

His most recent novels are the traditionally published Godplayers (2005), selected in the annual Recommended Reading List from Locus, and its sequel K-Machines (2006). The word locus (plural loci) is Latin for place: In biology and evolutionary computation, a locus is the position of a gene (or other significant sequence) on a chromosome. ...

He has also written radio plays, both adaptations of his own stories and original works. His original play Schrödinger's Dog, first broadcast in 1995, was Australia's entry in the Prix Italia; and his short story adaptation of the story, published the following year, was selected for Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction collection for that year. Front cover of Michael Swanwicks book-length interview with Dozois, Being Gardner Dozois. ...

Bibliography

Novels

• The Dreaming Dragons (1980)
  • revised edition: The Dreaming (2001)
• The Judas Mandala (1982, revised 2002)
• Valencies (1983) - with Rory Barnes
• Transmitters (1984)
• The Black Grail (1986)
• Striped Holes (1988)
• The Sea's Furthest End (1993)
• The White Abacus (1997)
• Zones (1997) - with Rory Barnes
• Stuck in Fast Forward (1999) - with Rory Barnes
• The Book of Revelation (1999) - with Rory Barnes
• Transcension (2002) - with Rory Barnes and Barbara Lamar
• The Hunger of Time (2003) - with Rory Barnes
• Godplayers (2005)
• K-Machines (2006)
• I Suppose a Root's Out of the Question? A Comedy of Bad Manners (forthcoming, 2006) - with Rory Barnes

Rory Barnes (born 1946) is an Australian writer of popular fiction. ...

Children's books

• Jack and the Aliens (2002)
• Jack and the Skyhook (2003)

Short story collections

• A Man Returned (1965)
• The Dark Between the Stars (1991)

Edited anthologies

• The Zeitgeist Machine: A New Anthology of Science Fiction (1977)
• Strange Attractors: Original Australian Speculative Fiction (1985)
• Matilda at the Speed of Light: A New Anthology of Australian Science Fiction (1988)
• Not the Only Planet: Science Fiction Travel Stories (1998)
• Centaurus: Best of Australian Science Fiction (1999) - with David G. Hartwell
• Earth is But a Star: Excursions through Science Fiction to the Far Future (2001)

Nonfiction

• The Lotto Effect: Towards a Technology of the Paranormal (1992)
• The Architecture of Babel: Discourses of Literature and Science (1994)
• Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction (1995)
• Theory and Its Discontents (1997)
• The Spike: How Our Lives are being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technology (1997) (revised 2001)
• The Last Mortal Generation (1999)
• Transrealist Fiction (2000), about Transrealism
• x, y, z, t: Dimensions of Science Fiction (2004)
• Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the New Enlightenment (2005)
• "Cultural Dominants and Differential MNT Uptake" Essay at Wise Nano

Transrealism is a literary mode that mixes the techniques of incorporating fantastic elements used in science fiction with the techniques of describing immediate perceptions from naturalistic realism. ...

External links

• Damien Broderick Unofficial Homepage - maintained by Broderick's wife, Barbara Lamar
• Cosmos magazine
• e-books published by FictionWise:
  • The Dreaming
  • Valencies
  • The Hunger of Time