Colin Greenland

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Colin Greenland (born May 17, 1954) is a British science fiction writer, whose first story won the second prize in a 1982 Faber & Faber competition. His best known novel is Take Back Plenty [1](1990), winner of all three major British science fiction awards, the Eastercon, Arthur C. Clarke and British SF Association awards.

Colin Greenland's first published book was a critical look at the New Wave, based on his Ph.D thesis, The Entropy Exhibition : Michael Moorcock and the UK New Wave (1983). His most successful fictional work is the Plenty series that started with Take Back Plenty and continued with Seasons of Plenty (1995), The Plenty Principle (1997) and Mother of Plenty (1998).

Besides his work on fiction, Greenland has continued to write non-fiction books and has been active in the Science Fiction Foundation, as well as served on the editorial committee of Interzone.

His partner is Susanna Clarke, with whom he has lived since 1996.

[edit] Selected bibliography

The Entropy Exhibition : Michael Moorcock and the UK New Wave (1983)
Daybreak on a Different Mountain (1984)
Interzone: The First Anthology (1985) co-editor with J. M. Dent
The Hour of the Thin Ox (1987)
Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future (1987) with Eric S. Rabkin and George E. Slusser
Other Voices (1988)
Take Back Plenty (1990)
Michael Moorcock: Death is No Obstacle (1992) non-fiction
Harm's Way (1993)
Seasons of Plenty (1995)
The Plenty Principle (1997) collection
Mother of Plenty (1998)
Finding Helen (2003)