List of awards and nominations received by Geoff Ryman
Year Nominee / work Award Result
1984 The Unconquered Country British Science Fiction Association Award for best short fiction Won
1986 O Happy Day ! British Science Fiction Association Award for best short fiction Nominated
1986 The Warrior Who Carried Life British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel Nominated
1988 Love Sickness British Science Fiction Association Award for best short fiction Won
1990 The Child Garden British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel Nominated
1995 Warmth British Science Fiction Association Award for best short fiction Nominated
2002 Lust British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel Nominated
2004 Birth Days British Science Fiction Association Award for best short fiction Nominated
2006 Air , or Have not Have British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel Won
2016 100 African Writers of SFF British Science Fiction Association Award for best non-fiction Won
British Science Fiction Association Awards
The British Science Fiction Association ( BSFA ) annually presents four awards ( though numbers have differed in previous years ) based on a vote of BSFA members and recently also members of the Eastercon . Ryman 's works have been nominated ten times in the novel and short fiction categories , and won three times .
Geoff Ryman (born 1951) is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, he was also one of the founding members of the Mundane science fiction movement. In 2008 a Mundane SF issue of Interzone magazine was published, guest edited by Geoff Ryman, Julian Todd and Trent Walters. 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. He is most well known for his science fiction writing, however his first novel was the fantasy The Warror Who Carried Life, and his revisionist fantasy Was has been called his most accomplished work. Much of his work is based on travels to Cambodia. The first of these The Unconquered Country (1986) was winner of the World Fantasy Award and British Science Fiction Association Award. His novel The King's Last Song (2006) was set both in the Angkor Wat era and the time after Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. He was guest of honour at Novacon in 1989 and has twice been a guest speaker at Microcon, in 1994 and in 2004. He was also the guest of honour at Gaylaxicon 2008. Ryman has written and published seven novels, including an early example of a hypertext novel, 253, or Tube Theatre. He is currently at work on a new historical novel set in the United States before the Civil War. His novels and novelas have won multiple awards, including the World Fantasy Award, and his novel Was was inducted into the Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame.