Damien Broderick (born 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer.

Four of his novels have won Ditmar Awards (including the non-SF Transmitters, which was given a special award); the first, The Dreaming Dragons , was runner-up for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. In November, 2003 he was awarded a grant for 2004-05 by the Australia Council to write fiction exploring the technological singularity.

His cyberpunk novel The Judas Mandala is credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality".

His best-known works as a futurist and science writer are The Spike (1997; revised 2001), a nonfiction work about the technological singularity; and The Last Mortal Generation (1999) on the prospect of radically extended youthful longevity.

His most recent novel, The Hunger of Time (2003), has been published as an ebook and in Print on Demand (PoD) format. His most recent critical study, (2004) was also released in PoD format. Both of these books have cover art by Swedish transhumanist Anders Sandberg, as does his critical sf anthology Earth is but a Star (2001).

His most recent traditionally published novel was Transcension (2002).

He has also written radio plays, both adaptations of his own stories and original works. His original play Schrödinger's Dog, first broadcast in 1995, was entered in the Prix Italia ; and his short story adaptation of the story, published the following year, was selected for Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction collection for that year.

Bibliography

(incomplete)

Novels

• The Dreaming Dragons (1980)
  • revised edition: The Dreaming (2001)
• The Judas Mandala (1982, revised 2002)
• Valencies (1983) - with Rory Barnes
• Transmitters (1984)
• The Black Grail (1986)
• Striped Holes (1988)
• The Sea's Furthest End (1993)
• The White Abacus (1997)
• Zones (1997) - with Rory Barnes
• Stuck in Fast Forward (1999) - with Rory Barnes
• The Book of Revelation (1999) - with Rory Barnes
• Jack and the Aliens (2002)
• Transcension (2002)
• Jack and the Skyhook (2003)
• The Hunger of Time (2003) - with Rory Barnes

Short story collections

• A Man Returned (1965)
• The Dark Between the Stars (1991)

Nonfiction

• The Lotto Effect (1992)
• The Architecture of Babel (1994)
• Reading by Starlight (1995)
• The Spike (1997) (revised 2001)
• Transrealist Fiction (2000)
• (2004)

External links

• Damien Broderick Unofficial Homepage
• e-books published by FictionWise:
  • The Dreaming
  • Valencies
  • The Hunger of Time