Andrew Weiner (writer)

Andrew Weiner (17 June 1949 – 3 December 2019)[1] was a Canadian science fiction writer. He published three novels and over forty short stories.

Andrew Weiner
Born(1949-06-17)17 June 1949
London, England, UK
Died3 December 2019(2019-12-03) (aged 70)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
OccupationNovelist
GenreScience fiction
Notable worksStation Gehenna

Weiner was born in London, United Kingdom, where he graduated in social psychology from the London School of Economics. He emigrated to Canada in 1974.[2]

Bibliography

Novels
  • Station Gehenna (1987)
  • Getting Near the End (2004, first publication in French under the title En approchant de la fin, 2000)
  • Among the Missing (2006, only published in French, under the title Boulevard des disparus)

Short story collections
  • Distant Signals: And Other Stories (1989)
  • This is the Year Zero (1998)

Anthologized short stories

His short story "Empire of the Sun"—his first professional sale[2]—was included in Again, Dangerous Visions (1972) edited by Harlan Ellison,[1] and his "Klein's Machine" appeared in Future on Ice (1998) edited by Orson Scott Card.[3]

gollark: Just threaten the silver with the chickens...
gollark: If they do not breed, we shall send an army of zyumorphs.
gollark: Though don't those just not produce offspring instead?
gollark: I think it's like holidays, then?
gollark: GoNs: "Now Just a Rare with `Summon`"™

References
  1. http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/weiner_andrew
  2. "Andrew Weiner (1949-2019)". Locus. 9 December 2019.
  3. https://www.sfsite.com/11a/fut44.htm


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