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| name = Geoff Ryman | image = Geoff Ryman at Åcon.jpg | caption = Geoff Ryman at Åcon 2010. | pseudonym = | birth_name = Geoffrey Charles Ryman | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1951}} | birth_place = Canada | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Author, actor, teacher | nationality = Canadian | spouse = | period = | genre = Science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, LGBT literature | subject = | movement = Mundane science fiction | notableworks = The Child Garden Was Air | influences = | influenced = | website = }} Geoffrey Charles Ryman (born 1951) is a Canadian writer of science fiction, fantasy, slipstream and historical fiction. BiographyRyman was born in Canada and moved to the United States at age 11. He earned degrees in History and English at UCLA, then moved to England in 1973, where he has lived most of his life.[1][2] He is gay.[1] In addition to being an author, Ryman started a web design team for the UK government at the Central Office of Information in 1994.[4] He also led the teams that designed the first official British Monarchy and 10 Downing Street websites, and worked on the UK government's flagship website www.direct.gov.uk.[4] WorksRyman says he knew he was a writer "before [he] could talk", with his first work published in his mother's newspaper column at six years of age.[2] He is best known for his science fiction; however, his first novel was the fantasy The Warrior Who Carried Life, and his revisionist fantasy of The Wizard of Oz, Was..., has been called "his most accomplished work".[3] Much of Ryman's work is based on travels to Cambodia. The first of these The Unconquered Country (1986) was winner of the World Fantasy Award[4] and British Science Fiction Association Award. His novel The King's Last Song (2006) was set both in the Angkor Wat era and the time after Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.[5] Ryman has written, directed and performed in several plays based on works of other writers. He was guest of honour at Novacon in 1989 and has twice been a guest speaker at Microcon, in 1994 and in 2004.[6][7][8] He was also the guest of honour at the national Swedish sf convention Swecon in 2006,[9] at Gaylaxicon 2008,[10] at Wiscon 2009,[11] and at Åcon 2010.[12] Mundane science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction focusing on stories set on or near the Earth, with a believable use of technology and science as it exists at the time the story is written, the Mundane SF movement was founded in 2004 during the Clarion workshop by Ryman amongst others.[13] In 2008 a Mundane SF issue of Interzone magazine was published, guest-edited by Ryman, Julian Todd and Trent Walters.[14] Ryman currently{{when|date=August 2018}} lectures in Creative Writing for University of Manchester's English Department.[15] His most recent full-length novel, The King's Last Song, is set in Cambodia, both at the time of Angkorean emperor Jayavarman VII, and in the present period. As of 2008 he was at work on a new historical novel set in the United States before their Civil War.[5] Bibliography{{Main|Geoff Ryman bibliography}}Novels
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References1. ^1 {{Cite news |url=http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/01Ryman.html |title=Geoff Ryman: The Mundane Fantastic |date=January 2006 |periodical=Locus |postscript=}} 2. ^{{cite web|first=Kit |last=Reed |url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intgr.htm |title=Geoff Ryman interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction |publisher=Infinityplus.co.uk |date=2004-08-07 |accessdate=2013-07-20}} 3. ^1 Ency fantasy 4. ^{{cite web|author=World Fantasy Convention |title=Award Winners and Nominees |url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/ |accessdate=4 Feb 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201074405/http://worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html |archivedate=1 December 2010 |df=dmy }} 5. ^1 2 3 {{cite web |url=http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/newwriting/about/geoffryman/ |title=Geoff Ryman (Centre for New Writing, The University of Manchester) |publisher=Arts.manchester.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2013-07-20 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831141203/http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/newwriting/about/geoffryman/ |archivedate=31 August 2013 |df=dmy-all }} 6. ^Ansible #199, February 2004 7. ^Ansible #79, February 1994 8. ^John Grant: Gulliver Unravels: Generic Fantasy and the Loss of Subversion – infinity plus non-fiction 9. ^{{cite web|author=Johan Anglemark |url=http://www.imagicon.se/eng/nytt.html |title=Recent news |publisher=Imagicon |date= |accessdate=2013-07-20}} 10. ^ {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915170409/http://www.gaylaxicon2008.org/author.html |date=15 September 2008 }} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.wiscon.info/guests.php |title=WisCon - The World's Leading Feminist Science Fiction Convention |publisher=Wiscon.info |date= |accessdate=2013-07-20}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://acon4.wordpress.com/goh/|title=GoH|accessdate=20 March 2010|publisher=Åcon}} 13. ^{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Geoff Ryman: The Mundane Fantastic: Interview excerpts | work = Locus | publisher = | date = January 2006 | url = http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/01Ryman.html | doi = | accessdate =23 September 2007}} 14. ^{{cite web|url=http://ttapress.com/439/interzone-216-special-mundane-sf-issue-2/|title=Interzone 216: Special Mundane-SF issue|date=3 May 2008|author=Andy Cox|publisher=TTA Press}} 15. ^{{Cite news |periodical=University of Manchester |url=http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/englishamericanstudies/academicstaff/ |title=Academic Staff |accessdate=30 October 2007 |postscript= |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027082212/http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/englishamericanstudies/academicstaff/ |archivedate=27 October 2007 |df=dmy-all }} 16. ^1 {{cite web| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2005 | title = 2005 Award Winners & Nominees| work = Worlds Without End| accessdate=17 May 2009}} 17. ^1 2 {{cite web| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1990 | title = 1990 Award Winners & Nominees| work = Worlds Without End| accessdate=17 May 2009}} 18. ^{{cite web | author = Mike Addelman | title = Ryman wins one of world’s top science fiction prizes | url = http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=8297 | publisher = University of Manchester | year = 2012}} External links
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