25 Facts About Mike Resnick

Michael Diamond Resnick was an American science fiction writer and editor.

Mike Resnick won five Hugo awards and a Nebula award, and was the guest of honor at Chicon 7.

Mike Resnick was the executive editor of the defunct magazine Jim Baen's Universe, and the co-creator and editor of Galaxy's Edge magazine.

Mike Resnick was a 1959 graduate of Highland Park High School in Highland Park, Illinois.

Mike Resnick sold his first piece of writing in 1957, while still in high school.

Mike Resnick attended the University of Chicago from 1959 to 1961 and met his future wife, Carol L Cain, there.

Mike Resnick's wife was an uncredited collaborator on much of his science fiction and a co-author on two movie scripts they sold, based on his novels Santiago and The Widowmaker.

Mike Resnick's daughter Laura Resnick is a science fiction and fantasy author.

Mike Resnick lived in Cincinnati from 1976 until his death from cancer on January 9,2020.

Mike Resnick visited Kenya often and drew on his experiences there.

Mike Resnick enjoyed collaborating with other writers, especially on short stories.

Mike Resnick had sold screenplays based on his novels to Miramax, Capella, and Jupiter 9, and often had multiple properties under option to Hollywood studios.

Mike Resnick's work has been translated into: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Dutch, Latin, Swedish, Romanian, Finnish, Portuguese, Slovakian, Chinese, Catalan, Danish, Croatian, and Greek.

Mike Resnick's papers are in the Special Collections Library of the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Mike Resnick worked as an editor for National Insider from 1966 to 1969, and as editor-in-chief of National Features Syndicate from 1967 to 1968.

Mike Resnick was a publisher and editor for Oligarch Press from 1969 onwards.

Mike Resnick was an editorial consultant for BenBella Books from 2004 to 2006 and executive editor of Jim Baen's Universe from 2007 through 2010.

Mike Resnick's wife created costumes in which she and Mike Resnick appeared at five Worldcon masquerades in the 1970s, winning four out of five contests.

Mike Resnick was nominated for 37 Hugo Awards and won five times.

Mike Resnick was nominated for Best Editor in 1994,1995, and 2015; for his Chicon 7 Guest of Honor speech in 2007; and for the nonfiction Putting It Together: Turning Sow's Ear Drafts Into Silk Purse Stories, I Have This Nifty Idea.

Mike Resnick won one Nebula Award from eleven nominations, and numerous other awards from places as diverse as France, Japan, Spain, Croatia, and Poland.

Mike Resnick was awarded the Spanish El Melocoton Mecanico Award for "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" and the Xatafi-Cyberdark Award for "For I Have Touched the Sky", in addition to a Tour Eiffel Award in France for The Dark Lady.

Mike Resnick won Catalonia's Ictineus Award in 2012 for Best Translated Story for "Soulmates", a collaboration with Lezli Robyn.

Mike Resnick wrote more than 70 novels and published over 25 collections.

Fiona Kelleghan compiled Mike Resnick: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to His Work.