Geoffrey Charles Ryman (born 1951) is a writer of science fiction, fantasy and slipstream fiction. He was born in Canada, and has lived most of his life in England.

His science fiction and fantasy works include The Warrior Who Carried Life (1985), the novella The Unconquered Country (1986) (winner of the British Science Fiction Award and the World Fantasy Award), and The Child Garden (1989) (winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Campbell Award). Subsequent fiction works include Was (1992) a re-imagining of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the life of Judy Garland, Lust (2001), and Air (2005) (winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, the British Science Fiction Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and on the short list for the Nebula Award).

His work 253, or Tube Theatre was first published as hypertext fiction on a Web site ^*. The print version was published in 1998 and won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award.

His most recent full-length novel, The King's Last Song, is set in Cambodia, both at the time of Angkorean emperor Jayavarman VII, and in the present period.

Geoff Ryman currently lectures in Creative Writing for University of Manchester's English Department.

External links

• Comment on the victims of the 7 July 2005 London Bombings
• Interview with Geoff Ryman conducted by Kit Reed at Infinity Plus, discussing his novel Air and the Mundane SF movement.
• Compilation of reviews of Ryman's book The King's Last Song

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Geoff Ryman