Ian R. MacLeod | |
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| Born | Ian Roderick MacLeod[1] (1956-08-06)6 August 1956 (age 69)[1] |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | British |
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| Notable awards | Sidewise Award for Alternate History (1998, 2005, 2011) World Fantasy Award—Novella (1999) Arthur C. Clarke Award (2009) John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2009) |
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Ian Roderick MacLeod (born 6 August 1956) is a Britishscience fiction andfantasy writer.
He was born inSolihull nearBirmingham. He studied law and worked as a civil servant before going freelance in early 1990s soon after he started publishing stories, attracting critical praise and awards.
He is the author of seven novels, includingThe Light Ages andThe House of Storms, which are set in analternate universe nineteenth century England, where aether, a substance that can be controlled by the mind, has ossified English society intoguilds and has retarded technological progress. His other novels and short stories feature a mixture of fantastic, historical, and futuristic elements, combined with a concern for character and vividly descriptive writing. His novelSong of Time, told from a viewpoint of a classical violinist and set in the near future, won theArthur C. Clarke Award,[2] theJohn W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the Premio Italia Award for Best International SF Novel in 2023. His novelWake Up and Dream, set in an alternative 1940s Los Angeles, won aSidewise Award for Best Alternative History.[3] His novelRed Snow follows the path of a vampire across several centuries in Europe and the United States.
MacLeod'snovella "The Summer Isles" (Asimov's Science Fiction October/November 1998) won theSidewise Award for Alternate History, Short Form and theWorld Fantasy Award for Best Novella.[4] It is analternate history where Britain, having been defeated in theWorld War I, develops its own form offascism in 1930s. The narrator is a closeted homosexual Oxford historian who had known the leader in youth. It was written as a novel, which however could not sell; MacLeod published the cut version, with the full-length version only being published in a limited edition in 2005. This novel version also won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Long Form, thus becoming the only story to win the same award twice in two differing formats, novel and novella.
MacLeod won theWorld Fantasy Award again in for his 2000 novelette "The Chop Girl".[4] His shorter fiction has been collected inVoyages by Starlight,Breathmoss and Other Exhalations,Past Magic, Journeys,Frost on Glass andRagged Maps.
MacLeod was Guest of Honour at the 38thNovacon, held in November 2008.
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| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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| The Discovered Country | 2013 | "The Discovered Country".Asimov's Science Fiction.37 (9):10–28. September 2013. | Novelette | |
| Entangled | 2013 | "Entangled".Asimov's Science Fiction.37 (12):90–106. December 2013. | Novelette | |
| The Réparateur of Strasbourg | 2013 | The Réparateur of Strasbourg. PS Publishing. 2013. | Chapbook |
