Well, to be honest I think I’m a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought – whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.
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Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.
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Birth: | 25th May, 1960 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Novelist, Writer |
Eric Brown was born in Haworth, Yorkshire, England. He is a British science fiction novelist and writer. He has written several novels include: Meridian Days, Engineman, Bengal Station, Helix, Necropath, Kethani, The Kings of Eternity, Cosmopath, Serene Invasion, Xenopath, and Helix Wars. His story The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories won the Interzone readers' poll for the most admired story of 1988, and an Eastercon short text award in 1995. He won the British Science Fiction Award twice for the short stories Hunting the Slarque in 1999 and Children of Winter in 2001. He writes a regular science fiction review column for the Guardian newspaper.
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