Locus, the trade journal of science fiction, keeps a list of the winners of major science fiction awards on its web page. Mike Resnick is now the leading award winner for short fiction among all science fiction writers, living or dead.

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Mike was born on March 5, 1942. He sold his first article in 1957, his first short story in 1959, and his first book in 1962.

He attended the University of Chicago from 1959 through 1961, won 3 letters on the fencing team, and met and married Carol. Their daughter, Laura, was born in 1962, and has since become a writer herself, winning 2 awards for her romance novels and the 1993 Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer.

Mike and Carol discovered science fiction fandom in 1962, attended their first Worldcon in 1963, and 81 sf books into his career, Mike still considers himself a fan and frequently contributes articles to fanzines. He and Carol appeared in five Worldcon masquerades in the 1970s in costumes that she created, and won four of them.

Mike labored anonymously but profitably from 1964 through 1976, selling more than 200 novels, 300 short stories and 2,000 articles, almost all of them under pseudonyms, most of them in the "adult" field. He edited 7 different tabloid newspapers and a pair of men's magazines, as well.

In 1968 Mike and Carol became serious breeders and exhibitors of collies, a pursuit they continued through 1981. (Mike is still an AKC-licensed collie judge.) During that time they bred and/or exhibited 27 champion collies, and were the country's leading breeders and exhibitors during various years along the way.

This led them to purchase the Briarwood Pet Motel in Cincinnati in 1976. It was the country's second-largest luxury boarding and grooming establishment, and they worked full-time at it for the next few years. By 1980 the kennel was being run by a staff of 21, and Mike was free to return to his first love, science fiction, albeit at a far slower pace that his previous writing. They sold the kennel in 1993.

Mike's first novel in this "second career" was THE SOUL EATER, which was followed shortly by BIRTHRIGHT: THE BOOK OF MAN, WALPURGIS III, the 4-book TALES OF THE GALACTIC MIDWAY series, THE BRANCH, the 4-book TALES OF THE VELVET COMET series, and ADVENTURES, all from Signet. His breakthrough novel was the international bestseller SANTIAGO, published by Tor in 1986. Tor has since published STALKING THE UNICORN, THE DARK LADY, IVORY, SECOND CONTACT, PARADISE, PURGATORY, INFERNO, the Double BWANA/BULLY!, and the collection, WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THE PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN? His most recent Tor releases were A MIRACLE OF RARE DESIGN, A HUNGER IN THE SOUL, THE OUTPOST, and the THE RETURN OF SANTIAGO.

Even at his reduced rate, Mike is too prolific for one publisher, and in the 1990s Ace published SOOTHSAYER, ORACLE and PROPHET, Questar published LUCIFER JONES, Bantam brought out the Locusbestselling trilogy of THE WIDOWMAKER, THE WIDOWMAKER REBORN, and THE WIDOWMAKER UNLEASHED, and del Rey published KIRINYAGA: A FABLE OR UTOPIA and LARA CROFT, TOMB RAIDER: THE AMULET OF POWER. He has recently completed A GATHERING OF WIDOWMAKERS for Meisha Merlin, DRAGON AMERICA for Phobos, and LADY WITH AN ALIEN for Watson-Guptill, and is working on STARSHIP: MUTINY for Pyr and THE MOEBIUS TRIP and A CLUB IN MONMARTRE for Watson-Guptill.

Beginning with SHAGGY B.E.M. STORIES in 1988, Mike has also become an anthology editor (and was nominated for a Best Editor Hugo in 1994 and 1995). His list of anthologies in print and in press totals more than 35, and includes ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS, ALTERNATE KENNEDYS, SHERLOCK HOLMES IN ORBIT, BY ANY OTHER FAME, DINOSAUR FANTASTIC, and CHRISTMAS GHOSTS, plus the recent STARS, co-edited with superstar singer Janis Ian.

Mike has always supported the "specialty press", and has numerous books and collections out in limited editions from such diverse publishers as Phantasia Press, Axolotl Press, Misfit Press, Pulphouse Publishing, Wildside Press, Dark Regions Press, NESFA Press, WSFA Press, Obscura Press, Farthest Star, and others. He recently agreed to become the science fiction editor for BenBella Books.

Mike was never interested in writing short stories early in his career, producing only 7 between 1976 and 1986. Then something clicked, and he has written and sold more than 140 stories since 1986, and now spends more time on short fiction than on novels. The writing that has brought him the most acclaim thus far in his career is the "Kirinyaga" series, which, with 64 major and minor awards and nominations to date, is the most honored series of stories in the history of science fiction.

He's recently begun writing short non-fiction as well. He sold a 4-part series, "Forgotten Treasures", to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and is a regular columnist for Speculations ("Ask Bwana") the SFWA Bulletin ("The Resnick/Malzberg Dialogues"), and wrote a bi-weekly column for the late, lamented GalaxyOnline.com. Mike now edits every issue of Jim Baen's Universe plus contributes an articel to almost every issue, plus he writes at least one article for every issue of Guy Lillian's Hugo-nominated Challenger.

Carol has always been Mike's uncredited collaborator on his science fiction, but in the past few years they have sold two movie scripts -- SANTIAGO and THE WIDOWMAKER, both based on Mike's books -- and Carol -is- listed as his collaborator on those.

Readers of Mike's works are aware of his fascination with Africa, and the many uses to which he has put it in his science fiction. Mike and Carol have taken numerous safaris, visiting Kenya (4 times), Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Botswana, and Uganda, and have two more planned for the next four years. Mike edited the _Library of African Adventure_ series for St. Martin's Press, and is currently editing _The Resnick Library of African Adventure_, and, with Carol as co-editor, _The Resnick Library of Worldwide Adventure_, for Alexander Books.

Since 1989, Mike has won five Hugo Awards. (For "Kirinyaga", "The Manamouki", "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge", and "The 43 Antarean Dynasties", and "Travels With My Cats"), a Nebula Award (for "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge"), and has been nominated for 30 Hugos, 11 Nebulas, a Clarke (British), and six Seiun-shos (Japanese). He has also won a Seiun- sho, a Prix Tour Eiffel (French), 2 Prix Ozones (French), 10 HOmer Awards, an Alexander Award, a Golden Pagoda Award, a Hayakawa SF Award (Japanese), a Locus Award, 3 Ignotus Awards (Spanish), a Futura Award (Croatian), an El Melocoton Mechanico (Spanish), 2 Sfinks Awards (Polish), a Fantastyka Award (Polish), a Xatafi-Cyberdark Award (Spanish), and has topped the Science Fiction Chronicle Poll six times, the Scifi Weekly Hugo Straw Poll three times, and the Asimov's Readers Poll five times. In 1993 he was awarded the Skylark Award for Lifetime Achievement in Science Fiction, and in 2001 and 2004 he was named Fictionwise.com's Author of the Year in open competition with Dan Brown, Stephen King, Robert Ludlum, Louis L'Amour, Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov.

His work has been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Dutch, Swedish, Romanian, Finnish, Chinese, and Croatian.

He was recently the subject of Fiona Kelleghan's massive MIKE RESNICK: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND GUIDE TO HIS WORK.

Awards and Nominations

Hugo Winners: Kirinyaga; The Manamouki; Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge; The 43 Antarean Dynasties; Travels With My Cats

Nebula Winners: Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge

Hugo Nominees: Kirinyaga; For I Have Touched the Sky; Bully!; The Manamouki; Winter Solstice; One Perfect Morning, With Jackals; The Lotus and the Spear; Mwalimu in the Squared Circle; Best Editor, 1994; Barnaby in Exile; A Little Knowledge; Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge; Best Editor, 1995; Bibi; When the Old Gods Die; The Land of Nod; The 43 Antarean Dynasties; Hothouse Flowers; Hunting the Snark; PUTTING IT TOGETHER; The Elephants on Neptune; Redchapel; I HAVE THIS NIFTY IDEA; Old MacDonald Had a Farm; Robots Don't Cry; Travels With My Cats; A Princess of Earth; Down Memory Lane; All The Things You Are; Distant Replay.

Nebula Nominees: Kirinyaga; For I Have Touched the Sky; IVORY; The Manamouki; Bully!; Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge; Bibi; When the Old Gods Die; Hunting the Snark; The Elephants on Neptune; Travels With My Cats

Asimov's Readers Poll; The 43 Antarean Dynasties; Hunting the Snark; The Elephants on Neptune; Old MacDonald Had a Farm; Travels With My Cats

Skylark Award for Lifetime Achievement in Science Fiction Fictionwise.com's Author of the Year (2001)

HOMer Winners: The Manamouki; Song of a Dry River; Mwalimu in the Squared Circle; Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge; Bibi; When the Old Gods Die; KIRINYAGA: A FABLE OF UTOPIA; Hothouse Flowers; Hunting the Snark; The Elephants on Neptune

SF Chronicle Poll Winners: Kirinyaga; For I Have Touched the Sky; Bully!; The Manamouki; Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge; Bibi; When the Old Gods Die

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Novella Contest (Spain) Winner: Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge

Tour Eiffel Award: (France) THE DARK LADY

Seiun-sho Winner: (Japan) KIRINYAGA: A FABLE OF UTOPIA

Hayakawa SF (Japan) Winner: For I Have Touched the Sky

Ignotus (Spanish Hugo) Award: Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge; The 43 Antarean Dynasties; Down Memory Lane

Alexander (AT&T) Winner: Winter Solstice

Golden Pagoda Award Winner: The Manamouki

American Dog Writers Awards for Best Short Fiction: The Last Dog; Blue

Clarke (British) Nominee: IVORY

Seiun-Sho (Japanese Hugo) Nominees: For I Have Touched the Sky; Bwana; IVORY; Posttime in Pink; SANTIAGO; KIRINYAGA

HOMer Runners-Up: Bully!; Bwana; How I Wrote the New Testament, Brought Forth the Renaissance, and Birdied the 17th Hole at Pebble Beach; ORACLE; The Lotus and the Spear; PURGATORY; The Pale Thin God; Birdie; Barnaby in Exile; A MIRACLE OF RARE DESIGN; A Little Knowledge; The 43 Antarean Dynasties; Redchapel

Locus Award Winner: When the Old Gods Die

Science Fiction Weekly Poll Winners: When the Old Gods Die; The 43 Antarean Dynasties; Hothouse Flowers

Futura (Croatia) Poll Winner: Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge

Nowa Fantastyka Poll Winner (Poland): Kirinyaga

SFinks Award Winner (Poland): For I Have Touched the Sky; When the Old Gods Die

Prix Ozone Winners (France): Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge; How I Wrote the New Testament, Ushered in the Renaissance, and Birdied the 17th Hole at Pebble Beach

El Melocoton Mechanico: Winner.(Spain) Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Ignotus (Spain) Nominees: Hothouse Flowers; Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Italia (Italy) nominee: Seven Voews of Olduvai Gorge

Year's Best SF Anthology: Kirinyaga; For I Have Touched the Sky; One Perfect Morning, With Jackals; Mwalimu in the Squared Circle; Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge; The Land of Nod; Hothouse Flowers

Year's Best SF Anthology Honorable Mentions: Bwana; The Manamouki; Bully!; Malish; Over There; Posttime in Pink; Song of a Dry River; Lady in Waiting; The Lotus and the Spear; The Pale Thin God; Barnaby in Exile; A Little Knowledge; The Summer of My Discontent; The Joy of Hats; When the Old Gods Die; Bibi; The Roosevelt Dispatches; Merdinus; Darker Than You Wrote; The 43 Antarean Dynasties; Hunting the Snark; Redchapel; The Elephants on Neptune; Water-Skiing Down the Styx; Old MacDonald Had a Farm; Keepsakes, Travels With My Cats, A Princess of Earth, El Presidente, A Moment of Your Time (with Dean Wesley Smith), and Swimming Upstream in the Wells of the Desert (with Susan R. Matthews)

Year's Best Fantasy & Horror Anthology Honorable Mention: Revolt of the Sugar Plum Fairies; The Light That Blinds, The Claws That Catch; Bibi; Redchapel

Locus Award Runner-Up: Kirinyaga; Mwalimu in the Squared Circle; Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge

SF Chronicle Poll Runners-Up: IVORY; One Perfect Morning, With Jackals; The Land of Nod

Hayakawa SF Finalists: For I Have Touched the Sky; Song of a Dry River; Posttime in Pink; Kirinyaga

Browning Award Finalist (for Best SF Humorist): 1993, 1994

Nebula Preliminary Ballot: 22 novels, 6 novellas, 9 novelettes, 13 short stories

Sturgeon Nominee: Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge; The 43 Antarean Dynasties

Xatafi-Cyberdark Award (Spain) -- For I Have Touched the Sky

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For a list of Mike's works, visit the Mike Resnick Bibliography Page or Farthest Star SF and order MIKE RESNICK: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND GUIDE TO HIS WORK by Fiona Kelleghan.

Web bio written by Mike Nelson, updated 03/24/05.