Karl Schroeder

I was born September 4, 1962 in Brandon Manitoba. My family are Mennonites, part of a community which has lived in southern Manitoba for over one hundred years. I am the second science fiction writer to come out of this small community -- the first was A.E. van Vogt!

I moved to Toronto in 1986 to pursue my writing career. I married Janice Beitel in April 2001, on the shore of the Indian Ocean, Kalbarri Western Australia, and our daughter Paige was born in May 2003.

I divide my time between writing fiction and consulting--chiefly in the area of Foresight Studies and technology. 

Fiction Writing

Novels and Collections

• The Claus Effect With David Nickle; published by Tesseract Books, fall 1997.

• Ventus Tor books, December 2000.


Ventus was declared a New York Times Notable book in 2001, and was short-listed for the Sunburst Award.

• Permanence Tor Books, June 2002.
  Permanence won the 2003 Aurora Award for best Canadian SF novel.

• Lady of Mazes Tor Books, July 2005.
  Lady was chosen by the Sci Fi channel as its August, 2005 Sci Fi Essentials book.

• The Engine of Recall Red Deer Press, April 2005.

• Crisis in Zefra, Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts, National Defense Canada; November 2005.

• Sun of Suns Tor Books, October 2006.

Nonfiction Books

• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Science Fiction, MacMillan; written with Cory Doctorow; August, 2000.

Short Story Publications

• "The Great Worm" Pierian Spring, Fall 1983.
  This story won the Pierian Spring Best Story award, 1982.

• "The Pools of Air"
  Tesseracts3 anthology, Press Porcepic, 1991.

• "Hopscotch"
  On Spec magazine, summer 1992 issue; reprinted in On Spec: The First Five Years, Tesseract Books, 1995.
  Nominated for a 1993 Aurora award.

• "The Toy Mill"
  Tesseracts4 anthology, Beach Holme Press, 1992. Winner of the 1993 (with David Nickle) Aurora award in the Best Short Work in English category.

• "Solitaire"
  Figment magazine; cover story for Fall/Winter 1992 issue.

• "The Cold Convergence"
  Figment magazine, spring 1993 issue.
  Won the Context '89 fiction contest.

• "Making Ghosts"
  On Spec, Hard SF Issue, spring 1994; t

• "The Engine of Recall"
  Aboriginal SF, Winter, 1997 issue.

• "Ball of Blood"
  Horrors! 365 Scary Stories anthology

• "Halo"
  Tesseracts 5 anthology, Tesseract Books, 1996.

• "Dawn"
  Tesseracts 7 anthology, Tesseract Books, Spring, 1999.

• "The Dragon of Pripyat"
  Tesseracts 8 anthology, Tesseract Books, Fall, 1999.

• "Allegiances"
  The Touch: Epidemic of the Millennium, Steven-Elliot Altman (Editor), Patrick Merla (Editor), iBooks, 2000.

Awards

• Permanence won the 2003 Aurora Award for Best Long Work, English (novel). The Aurora Award is Canada's top award for SF and Fantasy; it is voted for by the general public.

• Two of my novels, Ventus and Permanence have been short-listed for the Sunburst Award. In addition, Permanence was one of the top 12 novels nominated for the 2003 Hugo Award.

• "The Cold Convergence" (then titled "Live Wire") won the Context '89 Short Story contest. Jurors included Charles de Lint.

• "The Toy Mill" won the 1993 Aurora award for best short work in English, at the 1993 Aurora awards ceremony, Wolfville Nova Scotia, Sunday March 14, 1993. The story "Hopscotch" was also nominated in this category. 

Visit Karl's website at www.kschroeder.com.