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Weiner is Canada's most-accomplished SF
short-fiction writer, with over 40 stories in print,
all of them to prestige markets. His first sale was
Empire of the Sun to Harlan Ellison's
Again, Dangerous Visions (1972), and other work
has appeared in Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy &
Science Fiction (including the cover stories in
August 1987 and September 1992), and Interzone.
Ten of his stories, plus two that hadn't been
previously published, were collected in Weiner's
Distant Signals and Other Stories (Press
Porcépic, 1989). Two of his finest pieces, "Distant
Signals" and "Going Native," were made into episodes
of the American TV series Tales from the Darkside.
Weiner's sole novel, Station Gehenna (1987),
was an expansion of his novelette of the same name
(F&SF, April 1982). Owing much to Stanislaw Lem's
Solaris, it tells the story of a psychologist
investigating mysterious deaths at a terraforming
station on a remote world that might in itself be
sentient.
Weiner's work shows a fascination with psychology,
popular culture (especially rock music), economics,
and dark fin de siècle visions. Aliens appear
frequently, but are always clearly intended as
metaphors for the human condition.
Weiner is also an insightful SF critic, whose
non-fiction has appeared in Books in Canada,
Quantum, SF Guide, Short Form, and The New
York Review of Science Fiction. Born in London,
Weiner trained as a psychologist, has worked as a
rock critic, and is now a freelance business writer.
He moved to Canada in 1974.
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