Simon Brown (author)

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Simon Brown (born 1956 in Sydney[http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A%2c-A Austlit – Simon Brown]), is an Australian science fiction writer.

He originally trained as a journalist and worked for a range of Australian Government Departments, including the Australian Electoral Commission and the NSW Railways Department. He wrote science fiction short stories for many years and some of these have been collected in Cannibals in the Fine Light (1998). A second collection of Iliad-themed stories, Troy, was published in 2006. He is a member of the Australian Skeptics and edited Skeptical – A handbook of pseudoscience and the paranormal in 1989. He was also an editor of Argos, the journal of the Canberra Skeptics.

He won the 2009 short story division of the Aurealis Award for his story "The Empire"[https://web.archive.org/web/20110315220846/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit18.html Brown, Charles N. ]. The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards. Locus magazine