Brad R. Torgersen
American science fiction author (born 1974) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brad R. Torgersen (born April 6, 1974) is an American science fiction author whose short stories regularly appear in various anthologies and magazines, including Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show.
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Born | (1974-04-06) April 6, 1974 (age 50) |
Occupation | Author |
Period | 1992–present |
Genre | Science fiction |
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Torgersen's stories have won the Analog AnLab readers' choice award three different times, and he was a triple finalist in 2012 for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the Hugo Award for best novelette, and the Nebula Award for best novelette. In addition to short fiction, Torgersen has two published novels, including the 2019 Dragon Award winner, A Star-Wheeled Sky. The Who's Who page for Analog magazine lists him as one of the "leading writers in the genre".[1]
In 2015 Torgensen took charge of the [2][3] Sad Puppies movement, an unsuccessful annual attempt to win awards for a slate of nominees against alleged unfair bias in the voting in the Hugo Awards. He was replaced the following campaign.