Chris Lawson
Chris Lawson is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.Biography
Lawson was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1966. During his childhood Lawson spent time in New Guinea where his father worked as a biologist on a crocodile farm and his mother studied psychology of personal identity. Later he studied medicine in which he has attained a graduate diploma in biostatistics, epidemiology and human genetics. Lawson has previously worked for the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service and Merck Sharpe and Dohme and currently practises as a family doctor.
Lawson's first work was published in 1993, entitled "Metacarcinoma" his short story was published in the Summer 1993 edition of Eidolon . He received his first award for his work in 2000 when his short story "Written in Blood" won both the 1999 Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story and the 2000 Ditmar Award for best short fiction. Lawson is married and has two children and is currently living in Melbourne.Awards and nominations
Short fiction
- "Metacarcinoma" in Eidolon Summer 1993
- "The Judas Kiss" in Eidolon Spring 1996
- "Unborn Again" in Dreaming Down-Under
- "Written in Blood" in Asimov's Science Fiction June 1999
- "Chinese Rooms" in Eidolon Spring 1999
- "Matthew 24:36" in Eidolon Autumn 2000,
- "Lacey's Fingerprints" in Agog! Terrific Tales
- "Faster, Higher, Stronger" in Spectrum SF No. 9
- "Your Soothsayers Are Better" in Written in Blood
- "No Man's Land" in Gathering the Bones
- "Countless Screaming Argonauts" in Realms of Fantasy August 2005
- "The Surfing Cannibals of Norway" in Mitch?4: Stories by Writers Who Should Have Known Better
- "Empathy" in Cosmos April–May 2006,
- "Screening Test" in Agog! Ripping Reads
- "Hieronymus Boche" in Eidolon I
- "Canterbury Hollow" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January–February 2011
- "Sundown" in Welcome to the Greenhouse
Collections
- Written in Blood
Essays
- "The Tithonus Option is Not an Option"
- "Worldcon 1999 Report" in Locus No. 466
- Counter-Intuitive: "Life Without Sex" in Ticonderoga On-line
- "We Done Kill'd the Columbia" in Written in Blood
- "Evolutionary Pressure on Creationists" in Written in Blood
- "The Standard Book of Alchymical Elementals" in Written in Blood
- "Fun Experiments With Your Own Brain" in Written in Blood
- "Body Parts" in Borderlands #4
- Counter-Intuitive: "The Shape That Kills" in Ticonderoga On-line
- "Neglected Science in Science Fiction" in Fables & Reflections No. 6
- "The Triangle of Meaning" in Borderlands No. 3
- Counter-Intuitive: "Still Evolving After All These Years" in Ticonderoga On-line
- "Preservation of What Exactly?" in Borderlands #5
- "Conspiracy Theories are Deadlier Than Conspiracies" in Borderlands #6
