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Curriculum Vitae: PETER WATTS Watts — c.v . 1 of 19 Peter Watts website: w ww.rifters.com blog: https://rifters.com/crawl.htm Education Ph.D., 1991, University of British Columbia. Thesis: Hauling out behaviour of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina richardsi), with particular attention to thermal constraints. M.Sc., 1983, University of Guelph. Thesis: Habitat index analysis of inshore distribution of Phocoena phocoena in the Bay of Fundy. B.Sc. (honours marine biology), 1981, University of Guelph. Awards, Nominations, Grants, Etc. Literary "Test 4 Echo" selected for The Year's Forum Presidential Best Book (Special Top Hard SF Stories 5 (A. Kaster, Ed.) Award), 25th Lviv International Book 2021, Audiotext. Fair & Literature Festival (Blindsight— trans. by Ostap Ukrainets) 2018. Finalist, Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2020, Best Foreign Story ("ZeroS"). "ZeroS" selected for Best American 2020. Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018 (N.K. Jemison, ed.) 2018, Houghton Mifflin Bifrost Readers Choice Award, Best Harcourt; Best Science Fiction of the Foreign Story ("ZeroS"). 2020. Year (N. Clarke, ed.) 2018, Nightshade; "Cyclopterus" selected for The Year's in The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Top Hard SF Stories 4 (A. Kaster, Ed.) Stories 2 (A. Kaster, Ed.) 2018, 2020, Audiotext; and The Year’s Best Audiotext; and The Year's Best Science Science Fiction: The Saga Anthology of Fiction and Fantasy, 2018 Edition (R. SF 2021 (J. Strahan, Ed.) Horton, Ed.) 2018, Prime Books. Nowa Fantastyka Award, Best Foreign Finalist, Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire for Novel (The Freeze-Frame Revolution) Best Foreign Fiction (Au-delà du 2019. gouffre). 2017. Finalist, John W. Campbell Memorial Finalist, Aurora Award for Best Novel Award (The Freeze-Frame Revolution) (Echopraxia) 2015. 2019. Finalist, John. W. Campbell Memorial Finalist, Locus Award for Best Novella Award (Echopraxia) 2015. (The Freeze-Frame Revolution). 2019. Honourable Mention, Sunburst Award "Kindred" selected for The Year’s Top Committee, 2015 (Echopraxia). Hard SF Stories 3 (A. Kaster, Ed.) 2019, CBC "Bookie" Award, Best SF/Fantasy Audiotext novel (Echopraxia) 2015. Watts — c.v . 2 of 19 Seiun Award, 2014, Best Foreign Prix Jacques Chambon, Grand Prix de Language Novel of the year (Japan) l'Imaginaire, 2010: Best translation. (Blindsight—trans. by Yoichi Shimada). Gilles Goullet, for Vision Aveugle "The Colonel" selected for The Year's Shirley Jackson Award, 2010, Best Short Best Science Fiction: 32nd Annual Story ("The Things") Collection (G. Dozois, Ed.) 2015, St. Black Quill Award, 2010, Best Dark Martin's; Top Ten Tales of SF 7 (A. Scribble (Editor's Choice) (“The Kaster, Ed.) 2015, Audiotext; Things”) Imaginarium 4: the Best Canadian Speculative Writing (S. Kasturi and J. First Place, Clarkesworld 2010 Reader's Steuart, Eds.), 2015, ChiZine. Poll (“The Things”) "Collateral" selected for The Best Finalist, Theodore Sturgeon Award (“The Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Things”) Vol 9 (J. Strahan, Ed.) 2015, Solaris; Finalist, Locus Award, Best Short Story Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, (“The Things”) 2015 Edition (R. Horton, Ed.), Prime. Finalist, Hugo Award, Best Short Story Tähtivaeltaja Award, 2014, Best (“The Things”) Translated Novel of the Year (Finland) (Sokeanäkö/Blindsight). Finalist, British Science Fiction and Fantasy Association Award, Best Short Finalist, Krastan Dyankov Award, Fiction, (“The Things”) 2013/2014, Best Translated Book (Bulgaria) (Blindsight— trans. By Elena "The Things" selected for The Year's Best Pavlova) Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection (G. Dozois, Ed.) 2011 from St. Honourable Mention, Sunburst Award Martin's Griffin; The Best Science Fiction Committee, 2014 (Beyond the Rift) and Fantasy of the Year: Vol 5 (J. Strahan, "Firebrand" selected for The Year’s Best Ed.) 2011 from Night Shade; The Year's Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014 (R. Best Science Fiction and Fantasy (R. Horton, Ed.) 2015 from Prime. Horton, Ed.) 2011 from Prime; The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 (A. Aurora Award, 2012, Best Fan/Other, for Kaster, Ed.) 2011 from Amazon; The "Reality: The Ultimate Mythology" Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011 lecture. (P. Guran, Ed.) 2011 from Prime. Locus Poll, Best SF Novels of the 21st Finalist, 2010 Parsec Award for Best Century (Blindsight— #5) Podcast (“The Things”). Finalist, Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire Finalist, 2011 Prix Bob Morane, Starfish 2012, “L’Île” (Bifrost #61) (in French translation). "Malak" selected for The Best Science Xatafi-Cyberdark Award (Asociación Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Vol 6 (J. Cultural Xatafi, Spain), Best Translated Strahan, Ed.) Night Shade. Novel (Visión Ciega) 2010 Finalist, Scribe Award, 2012, Best Hugo Award, Best Novelette ("The Adaptation — General or Speculative Island") 2010 (Crysis: Legion) Watts — c.v . 3 of 19 Finalist, Premio Ignotus Award (Spanish Horton, Ed.) 2009 from Prime; and Association of Fantasy, Science Fiction Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best and Horror), Best Foreign Novel (Visión Science Fiction, (R. Sawyer, Ed) 2009 Ciega) 2010. from Robert J. Sawyer Books. Finalist, Geffen Award for Best "Repeating the Past" reprinted in Year's Translated Science Fiction Novel (Israeli Best SF 13 (D.G. Hartwell and K. Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy) Cramer, Eds.) 2008 from Eos; also (Blindsight) Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction, (R. Sawyer, Ed) 2009 Finalist, Parsec Award, “The Things” from Robert J. Sawyer Books. (podcast narrated by Kate Baker) 2010 Finalist, Hugo Award, 2007, Best Novel Finalist, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial (Blindsight). Award ("The Island") 2010 3rd Place, John W. Campbell Award for Finalist, Locus Award ("The Island") best sf novel, 2007 (Blindsight) 2010 Finalist, Locus Award for Best Novel "The Island" selected for The Best 2007 (Blindsight) Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Vol 4 (J. Strahan, Ed.) 2010 from Night Finalist, Sunburst Award for Speculative Shade; The Year's Best Science Fiction Fiction 2007 (Blindsight) and Fantasy (R. Horton, Ed.) 2010 from "Mayfly" selected for Year's Best Science Prime; The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fiction Twenty-Third Annual Collection Twenty-seventh Annual Collection (G. (G. Dozois, Ed.) 2006, St. Martin's. Dozois, Ed.) 2010 from St. Martin's Griffin; Year's Best SF #15 (D. Hartwell Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews, 2004 & K. Cramer, Eds.) 2010 from Eos; and (βehemoth), 2006 (Blindsight). The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science New York Times Notable Book of the Fiction 2 (A. Kaster, Ed.) 2010 from Year, 1999 (Starfish) Audio Text. Honorable Mention, John W. Campbell "The Island" longlisted for Best Short Award for best sf novel of the year, 1999. Story, British Science Fiction Associ- ation. Locus Recommended First Novel, 1999. MIR Fantastika Award “Best Foreign Aurora Award finalist, Canadian Science Novel 2009” (Russia) (Blindsight) Fiction Writers’ Association, 2007 (Blindsight), 2006 ("Mayfly"), 2002 Finalist, Kurd Laßwitz Preis (Germany), (Maelstrom), 2000 (Starfish), 1997 Best Foreign SF Novel of 2008 ("Bethlehem") . (Blindflug) Western Canada Magazine Awards Sfinks Award (Poland), Best Foreign (Fiction) nomination, 1995. Novel of 2008 (Ślepowidzenie). Journey Prize nomination (Fiction), 1995. NAST Award (Poland), Best Foreign SF/ Fantasy/Horror novel of 2008 Aurora Award, Canadian Science Fiction (Ślepowidzenie) Writers’ Association, 1992. Academic "The Eyes of God" selected for Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 (R. Watts — c.v . 4 of 19 "...Because as We All Know, the Green Party Runs the World" selected by the Industrial Open Laboratory Project as one of the Alaska Science and Technology "50 Best Science Blogging Posts of 2009" Foundation Grant, $113,000 (Co-authored Post-doctoral fellowship, International proposal), 1994 Marine Mammal Association, 1991-93. Documentary William S. Hoar Award, Canadian Society Environment Canada Trophy: Best Film of Zoologists, 1990. on the Environment, 1993 (Sealing Fate). Best Graduate Presentation Award, Bronze Medal: Ecology, Environment, & Society for Marine Mammalogy, 1989. Conservation. Houston Worldcon Film BC Graduate Scholarship, 1987-88. Festival, 1993. (Sealing Fate). NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, Hon. Mention, Columbus International 1984-87. Film Festival, 1993 (Sealing Fate). Literary Publications In addition to their commercial availability from traditional publishers, most of the following works are freely available online under a Creative Commons License. Books Watts, P. 2019. Peter Watts is an Angry Sentient Tumor: Essay and Revenge Fantasies. Essay collection. Tachyon Publications, San Francisco. 320pp. Foreign editions: Russian. ——. 2018. The Freeze Frame Revolution. Novella. Tachyon Publications, San Francisco. 192pp. Foreign editions: German, Polish, Russian. ——. 2014. Echopraxia. Novel, Tor Books, NY. 383pp. Foreign editions: French, German, Japanese, Polish, Russian, UK, Ukrainian. ——. 2014. Firefall (actually just an omnibus edition of Blindsight and Echopraxia). Head of Zeus, London.761pp. ——. 2013. Beyond the Rift (short story collection), Tachyon Publications, San Francisco. 230pp. Foreign Editions: Bulgarian, French, Russian. ——. 2013. Odtrutka na optymizm ("An Antidote for Optimism") (short story collection), from MAG, Warsaw. 356pp. ——. 2011. Crysis 2: Legion. Novelization (computer-game tie-in), Del Rey, NY. 320pp. Foreign Editions: German, Polish, UK. Watts — c.v . 5 of 19 ——. 2006. Blindsight. Novel, Tor Books, NY. 384pp. Foreign
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