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American novelist
David Walton
Born (1975-10-26) October 26, 1975 (age 49)
U.S.
OccupationNovelist
Writing career
GenreScience fiction
Notable worksTerminal Mind, The Genius Plague
Websitewww.davidwaltonfiction.com

David Walton (born October 26, 1975) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer living in Philadelphia. His novel Terminal Mind won the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award for the best paperback science fiction novel published in the United States, in a tie with Adam-Troy Castro's novel Emissaries from the Dead.

Career

After years of short story writing, Walton published his award-winning novel Terminal Mind in 2008, followed by Quintessence and its sequel Quintessence Sky in 2013 and Superposition and its sequel Supersymmetry in 2015. The rights to a TV adaptation of the Superposition series was sold in late 2015.

Awards

Bibliography

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2023)

Novels

Short fiction

Stories
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
Fly like the light 2001 Walton, David (May 2001). "Fly like the light". Rogue Worlds.
  • "Anyone Can Whistle", Electric Wine, 2001
  • "All About Eventualities", Neverworlds, 2002
  • "Hands", Aoife's Kiss, 2004
  • "All The Rage This Year", All The Rage This Year, Phobos Books, 2004
  • "No Forwarding Address", Anotherealm, 2005
  • "The Problem of Friction", Lenox Avenue, 2005
  • "Diamond Dust", Futurismic, 2005
  • "Anyone Can Whistle", Escape Pod, 2006
  • "Rival of Mars", Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2006
  • "The Towers of St. Michael's", Futurismic, 2007
  • "When Peace and Redemption Collide", Continuum SF, 2007
  • "Raven Crumbling", Fantastical Visions anthology, 2007
  • "Mattie's Cougar", Touched by Wonder anthology, Meadowhawk Press, 2007
  • "Permission to Speak Freely", Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2007
  • "Rings of Jupiter", Talebones, 2008
  • "Letting Go", Jim Baen's Universe, Cosmos, 2008
  • "Dragonfly Savior", Fantastical Visions anthology, 2009

Critical studies and reviews of Walton's work

Superposition
  • Sakers, Don (June 2015). "The Reference Library". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (6): 105–108.

References

  1. McKitterick, Christopher. "John W. Campbell Memorial Award". Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. Archived from the original on 29 December 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  2. "Philip K. Dick Award 2009". Science Fiction Awards Database. Mark R. Kelly and the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  3. "Castro and Walton Win 2009 Philip K. Dick Award", Locus, May 2009.
  4. VanderMeer, Jeff. "Philip K. Dick Award Winners Announced: A Tie Between Castro and Walton", Omnivoracious, 15 April 2009.
  5. "Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award". www.baen.com. Baen Publishing Enterprises. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  6. Short stories unless otherwise noted.

External links

Philip K. Dick Award
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