1. Geoffrey Charles Ryman was born on 1951 and is a Canadian writer of science fiction, fantasy, slipstream and historical fiction.
17 Facts About Geoff Ryman
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Geoff Ryman has won multiple awards, including the World Fantasy Award.
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Geoff Ryman was born in Canada and moved to the United States at age 11.
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Geoff Ryman earned degrees in History and English at UCLA, then moved to England in 1973, where he has lived most of his life.
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Geoff Ryman 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.
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Geoff Ryman 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.
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Geoff Ryman 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.
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In 1996, Geoff Ryman began publishing instalments of 253: A Novel for the Internet in Seven Cars and a Crash on the web.
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In 2023 Geoff Ryman was able to restore it, and it became available online again.
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Much of Geoff Ryman's work is based on travels to Cambodia.
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In 2023, after a significant hiatus between novels, Geoff Ryman published Him, an alternative history of Jesus Christ, in which Jesus is born biologically female, but identifies as male.
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Geoff Ryman has written, directed and performed in several plays based on works by other writers.
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Geoff Ryman was guest of honour at Novacon in 1989 and has twice been a guest speaker at Microcon, in 1994 and in 2004.
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Geoff Ryman was the guest of honour at the national Swedish science fiction convention Swecon in 2006, at Gaylaxicon 2008, at Wiscon 2009, and at Acon 2010.
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Geoff Ryman's works were the subject of a special issue of Extrapolation in 2008, with articles dealing with Air, The Child Garden, Lust, and Was, in particular.
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The introduction to the special issue, by Susan Knabe and Wendy Gay Pearson, responds to Geoff Ryman's call for Mundane science fiction.
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Geoff Ryman has lectured at the University of Manchester since at least 2007; as of 2022 he is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing for University of Manchester's English Department, where in 2011 he won the Faculty Students' Teaching Award for the School of Arts, History and Culture.