Simon Petrie

Simon Petrie is a New Zealand-born speculative fiction writer now based in Canberra, Australia. He is predominantly recognised as a writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres. ^[1]

He has twice won the Sir Julius Vogel Award (New Zealand SF Award): in 2010 for Best New Talent,^[2] and in 2013 for Best Novella or Novelette.^[3]

Two collections of Petrie's short stories have been published: Rare Unsigned Copy: tales of Rocketry, Ineptitude, and Giant Mutant Vegetables (2010) and Difficult Second Album: more stories of Xenobiology, Space Elevators, and Bats Out Of Hell (2014). In 2012 his back-to-back novella double, Flight 404 and The Hunt For Red Leicester, was released. All three books were edited by Edwina Harvey and published by Peggy Bright Books. The novella Flight 404 was shortlisted for the Ditmar awards in March 2013,^[4] and both Flight 404 and The Hunt for Red Leicester were subsequently shortlisted for the Sir Julius Vogel Award,^[5] with Flight 404 winning in its category.^[6]

Petrie's stories have appeared in a number of Australian publications including Borderlands, Aurealis and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine,^[7] in New Zealand publications such as Semaphore Magazine and several Random Static anthologies, and in magazines elsewhere in the English-speaking world such as Redstone Science Fiction, Murky Depths and Sybil's Garage. He is also a member of the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine collective, editing issues 35, 40, 51, and 54. He has co-edited three speculative fiction anthologies, Light Touch Paper, Stand Clear (Peggy Bright Books, 2012) (shortlisted for the Ditmar awards in March 2013)^[8] and Use Only As Directed (Peggy Bright Books, 2014) with Edwina Harvey, and Next (Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild, 2013), with Robert Porteous.

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