Awards & Winners

Colin Greenland

Date of Birth 17-May-1954
Place of Birth Dover
(United Kingdom, Dover District)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Novelist, Writer
Colin Greenland is a British science fiction writer, whose first story won the second prize in a 1982 Faber & Faber competition. His best-known novel is Take Back Plenty, winner of both major British science fiction awards, the 1990 British SF Association award and the 1991 Arthur C. Clarke Award, as well as being a nominee for the 1992 Philip K. Dick Award for the best original paperback published that year in the US. Colin Greenland's first published book was a critical look at the New Wave, based on his Ph.D thesis, The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction. His most successful fictional work is the Plenty series that starts with Take Back Plenty and continues with Seasons of Plenty, The Plenty Principle and Mother of Plenty. Besides his work on fiction, Greenland has continued to write non-fiction books and has been active in the Science Fiction Foundation, as well as serving on the editorial committee of Interzone. He has been a guest speaker at four separate Microcons: 1988, 1989, 1993 and 1994. His partner is Susanna Clarke, with whom he has lived since 1996.

Awards by Colin Greenland

Check all the awards nominated and won by Colin Greenland.

1993


Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Tiptree, Jr. Award Harm's Way
Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction Michael Moorcock: Death Is No Obstacle

1992


Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Philip K. Dick Award Take Back Plenty

1991


Arthur C. Clarke Award
Honored for : Take Back Plenty

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Arthur C. Clarke Award Take Back Plenty

1990


BSFA award for best novel
Honored for : Take Back Plenty

1986


Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology Interzone: The 1st Anthology

1984


Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British \"New Wave\" in Science Fiction