Simon Brown

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Simon Brown is an Australian Science Fiction writer.

He originally trained as a journalist and worked for a range of Australian Government Departments, including the Australian Electoral Commission and the NSW Railways Department. He wrote science fiction short stories for many years and some of these have been collected in Cannibals in the Fine Light (1998). A second collection of Iliad-themed stories, Troy, was published in 2006. He is a member of the Australian Skeptics and edited Skeptical - A handbook of pseudoscience and the paranormal in 1989. He was also an editor of Argos, the journal of the Australian Skeptics.

He is married, and has two children.

[edit] Publications

  • Skeptical - A Handbook of pseudoscience and the paranormal, Ed Donald Laycock, David Vernon, Colin Groves, Simon Brown, Imagecraft, Canberra, 1989.
  • Privateer, HarperCollins Australia 1996
  • Winter, HarperCollins Australia 1997
  • Cannibals of the Fine Light (collection), Ticonderoga Publications, April 1998
  • Inheritance: Book 1 of the Keys of Power, HarperCollins Australia, 2000
  • Fire and Sword: Book 2 of the Keys of Power, HarperCollins Australia, 2001
  • Sovereign: Book 3 of the Keys of Power, HarperCollins Australia, 2002
  • Empire's Daughter: Book 1 of the Chronicles of Kydan, Pan MacMillan Australia, 2004
  • Rival's Son: Book 2 of the Chronicles of Kydan, Pan MacMillan Australia, 2004
  • By Sea Divided: Book 3 of the Chronicles of Kydan, Pan MacMillan Australia, 2005
  • Troy (collection), Ticonderoga Publications, 2006