Terry Dowling

Overview:

  • Legal Name: Dowling, Terence William
  • Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • Date of Birth: March 21, 1947

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Terry Dowling is one of Australia's most acclaimed writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror. He is author of Rynosseros, Blue Tyson and Twilight Beach (the Tom Rynosseros saga), Wormwood, The Man Who Lost Red and An Intimate Knowledge of the Night, and editor (with Dr Van Ikin) of Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF and senior editor of The Essential Ellison. As well as being reviewer of science fiction, fantasy and horror for The Australian, he is also a musician and songwriter, with eight years of appearances on the ABC's Mr Squiggle & Friends, and is a Communications lecturer at a large Sydney college. He has been called "one of our finest futurists" (Independent Monthly) and "one of the finest imaginative minds of the 1990s" (Canberra Times).

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Chapter Books

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Essays

Interviews

Magazine Editor

Novels

Omnibuses

Poems

Reviews

Short Fiction

Awards

  • 0000. Blackwater Days - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Collected Work (Win)
  • 0000. Rynosseros - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Long Fiction (Win)
  • 0000. An Intimate Knowledge of the Night - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Novel (Win)
  • 0000. Wormwood - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Long Fiction (Win)
  • 0000. The Quiet Redemption of Andy the House - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Win)
  • 0000. The Bullet That Grows in the Gun - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Win)
  • 0000. Terrarium - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Win)
  • 0000. The Last Elephant - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Win)
  • 0000. The Man Who Lost Red - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy Short Fiction (Win)
  • 0000. The Ones Who Walk Away Behind the Eyes - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy (Win)
  • 0000. For As Long As You Burn - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Long Fiction (Win)
  • 0000. Jenny Come to Play - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Short Story (Win)
  • 0000. The Saltimbanques - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Short Fiction (Win)
  • 0000. Rynemonn: Leopard Dreaming - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence (Win)
  • 0000. Toother - Australian Shadows Award, Novels, anthologies, and short stories (2005-2008) (Win)
  • 0000. Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Convenors' Award for Excellence (Win)
  • 0000. Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear - International Horror Guild Award, Best Collection (Win)
  • 0000. Clowns at Midnight - Locus Poll Award, Best First Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Blue Tyson - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Wormwood - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
  • 0000. Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Blackwater Days - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Blackwater Days - World Fantasy Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Twilight Beach - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Long Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. An Intimate Knowledge of the Night - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Long Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Blue Tyson - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Long Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, SF Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Ship's Eye - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. His Own, the Star Alphecca - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, SF Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Beckoning Nightframe - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Time of the Star - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Maze Man - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Scaring the Train - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Vanities - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. A Dragon Between His Fingers - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Privateer's Moon - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Nobody's Fool - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. A Deadly Edge Their Red Beaks Pass Along - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. The View in Nancy's Window - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, SF Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Marmordesse - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Saltimbanques - World Fantasy Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Basic Black - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Lagan Fishers - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Fantasy Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Rynemonn - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Novella or Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. Toother - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Collected Work (Nomination)
  • 0000. Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Cheat Light - International Horror Guild Award, Best Short Form (Nomination)
  • 0000. Midnight in the Graffiti Tunnel - Australian Shadows Award, Short Fiction (2011-) (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Unwrapping - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Sleepover - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Short Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Scaring the Train - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear - Australian Shadows Award, Novels, anthologies, and short stories (2005-2008) (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Blackwater Days - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. The View in Nancy's Window - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. The Saltimbanques - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. The Lagan Fishers - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. The Lagan Fishers - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination below cutoff)

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