Bruce McAllister
Bruce McAllister’s short fiction has over the decades appeared in SFF&H magazines, literary journals, “year’s best" volumes, and, God help him, college textbooks; and won or been shortlisted for awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Nebula, the Hugo, the Shirley Jackson Award and others.
His three novels are the very-young-man’s-ode-to-future-merpeople HUMANITY PRIME, the esp-in-war DREAM BABY and the gentler THE VILLAGE SANG TO THE SEA : A MEMOIR OF MAGIC. His first published story was written at 16, reprinted in Judith Merril’s THE YEAR’S BEST S-F, and later reprinted in the final volume of Isaac Asimov’s Golden Age of Science Fiction anthology series. Bruce was associate editor of the Harrison/Aldiss “year’s best sf” series for some years and co-edited with Harry Harrison the controversial anthology THERE WON’T BE WAR.
His Hugo-nominated short story, “Kin,”—about a boy from the projects in a future LA who hires the scariest assassin the known universe--was chosen by LeVar Bruton to launch his podcast series LEVAR BURTON READS. After a childhood of moving every two years in a Navy family and living on one ocean after another, saltwater in him forever, he now lives happily in SoCa not far from the sea.
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