Geoffrey Maloney
Geoffrey Maloney is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.Biography
Maloney's first story, "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes", was published in 1990 in Aurealis No. 1. In 1997 Maloney's "The Embargo Traders" was nominated for Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story. Along with Maxine McArthur and others, he helped set up the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild in 1999. This produced the anthology Nor of Human... An Anthology of Fantastic Creatures with Maloney as the editor. In 2001 he won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story for "The World According to Kipling ". Maloney has since received four other nominations at the Aurealis Awards and two at the Ditmar Awards.
He currently lives in Brisbane with his wife and three children.Anthologies
- Nor of Human... An Anthology of Fantastic Creatures
- Fantastical Journeys to Brisbane
Collections
- Tales from the Crypto-System
Essays
- Speculative Fiction Reaches Critical Mass in Canberra? Surely Not!
- Notes on Authors
Short fiction
- "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes" in Aurealis No. 1
- "Age of Democracy" in Eidolon , Spring 1990
- "The Last Lion in Africa is Dead" in Eidolon , Summer 1991
- "Cock of the Dunghill" in Eidolon , Winter 1991
- "Green on Red" in Eidolon , Spring 1991
- "Meat Puppets" in Intimate Armageddons
- "Requiem for the General" in Eidolon , Summer 1992
- "Greening" in Eidolon , Autumn 1992
- "The Taxi-Driver" in Aurealis No. 8
- "The Shifting Sands of the Interior" in Tales from the Crypto-System
- "Memories of the Colour-Field" in Eidolon , Spring 1992
- "Moving with the Herd" in Aurealis No. 9
- "Remnants of the Virago Crypto-System" in The Silver Web, Summer 1995
- "The Embargo Traders" in Aurealis No. 16
- "Keeping the Motor Running" in Aurealis #20/21
- "Keeping the Meter Running" in Tales from the Crypto-System
- "The Parallax Garden in Tales from the Crypto-System
- "Green-Keeping" in Tales from the Crypto-System
- "In the Service of the Shogarth" in Tales from the Crypto-System
- "The Elephant Sways as it Walks" in Eidolon , No.29/30, Autumn 2000
- "The World According To Kipling" in Tales from the Crypto-System
- "Hotel Terminus" in Tales from the Crypto-System
- "The World According to Kipling " in Aurealis #25/26
- "The Imperfect Instantaneous People Mover" in Agog! Fantastic Fiction
- "Remembering Aoteoroa" in Orb Speculative Fiction No. 2, 2001
- "Elecktra Dreams" in Redsine Eight
- "The Kaladashi Covenant" in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue No. 6
- "A Sixpence for Sophie" in '
- "Birds of the Brushes and Scrubs" in '
- "Conversations with Eternity" in Orb Speculative Fiction No. 6, 2004
- "The Dust Beneath Her Feet" in Aurealis #33–35
- "Bush of Ghosts" in Tales from the Crypto-System
- "A Very Long War" in Tales from the Crypto-System
- "A Colombian Breakfast" in Tales from the Crypto-System
- "The Writer Who Could Have Been Dostoyevsky" in The Devil in Brisbane
- "When the World Was Flat" in Agog! Ripping Reads
- "The Mana Bar Kid" in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue No. 25
- ""P" is for Power Station" in Fantastic Wonder Stories
- "Blonde on Blonde" in Albedo One No. 33
- "The Catherine Wheel" in New Writings in the Fantastic
- "The Secret Life of Mars" in Barren Worlds
- "In the Kaladashi Fashion" in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue No. 35
- "Through a Lens Darkly" in Aurealis No. 42
As editor
- Doorways for the Dispossessed
Awards and nominations
Aurealis Awards
- Best fantasy short story
- *2000: Win: "The World According to Kipling "
- Best science fiction short story
- *1996: Nomination: "The Embargo Traders"
- *2002: Nomination: "The Imperfect Instantaneous People Mover"
- *2003: Nomination: "Bush of Ghosts"
- Convenors' award
- *2001: Nomination: for Nor of Human... An Anthology of Fantastic Creatures, as editor
- *2004: Nomination: for himself
Ditmar Awards
- Best collected work
- *2007: Nomination: Doorways for the Dispossessed
- Professional achievement
- *2004: Nomination: Tales of the Crypto-System