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American writer

M. M. Buckner
Occupation	Author
Nationality	American
Education	Memphis State University Boston University (MA)
Genre	Hard science fiction
Notable awards	Philip K. Dick Award (2005)
Spouse	Jack Lyle
Website
www.mmbuckner.com

M. M. Buckner (Mary M. Buckner) is an American science fiction author specializing in hard science fiction, and also an environmental activist. Her third novel, War Surf, won the 2005 Philip K. Dick Award for best novel of the year, and her first novel Hyperthought was nominated in 2003.

Buckner's fourth novel, Watermind, won the Barnes & Noble SF Top Ten ranking for 2009. Her fifth novel, The Gravity Pilot, was released in March, 2011. Buckner's work has been published in five languages: Japanese, Chinese, German, Spanish and English. According to a review in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Buckner is "one of the best writers working in our genre today."

Buckner studied English at Memphis State University and earned an M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University. She worked as marketing vice president for a financial firm where her work earned two Diamond Addy Awards. Afterward, she devoted herself mainly to writing. Her novels include Hyperthought, Neurolink and War Surf (all published by Ace), as well as Watermind and The Gravity Pilot, (published by Macmillan/Tor). Twice, she has been interviewed on the podcast The Future And You: first in December 2005 concerning global warming and then in May 2006, shortly after winning the Philip K. Dick Award, to describe the experience. She is married to Jack Lyle and currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee.

References

"Fantasy and Science Fiction".
Biography at SFBookcase.com

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Philip K. Dick Award

Software by Rudy Rucker (1983)
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers (1984)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (1985)
Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers (1986)
Homunculus by James Blaylock (1987)
Strange Toys by Patricia Geary (1988)
Four Hundred Billion Stars by Paul J. McAuley (1989) (tie)
Wetware by Rudy Rucker (1989) (tie)
Subterranean Gallery by Richard Paul Russo (1990)
Points of Departure by Pat Murphy (1991)
King of Morning, Queen of Day by Ian McDonald (1992)
Through the Heart by Richard Grant (1993)
Growing Up Weightless by John M. Ford (1994) (tie)
Elvissey by Jack Womack (1994) (tie)
Mysterium by Robert Charles Wilson (1995)
Headcrash by Bruce Bethke (1996)
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter (1997)
The Troika by Stepan Chapman (1998)
253: The Print Remix by Geoff Ryman (1999)
Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter (2000)
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (2001)
Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo (2002)
The Mount by Carol Emshwiller (2003)
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (2004)
Life by Gwyneth Jones (2005)
War Surf by M. M. Buckner (2006)
Spin Control by Chris Moriarty (2007)
Nova Swing by M. John Harrison (2008)
Emissaries from The Dead by Adam-Troy Castro (2009) (tie)
Terminal Mind by David Walton (2009) (tie)
Bitter Angels by C. L. Anderson (2010)
The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder (2011)
The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy by Simon Morden (2012)
Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery (2013)
Countdown City by Ben H. Winters (2014)
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison (2015)
Apex by Ramez Naam (2016)
The Mercy Journals by Claudia Casper (2017)
Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn (2018)
Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman (2019)
Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker (2020)
Road Out of Winter by Alison Stine (2021)
Dead Space by Kali Wallace (2022)
The Extractionist by Kimberly Unger (2023)
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs (2024)

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