Say hello to Shane Dix, best-selling author of speculative fiction.
SHANE DIX
Shane
has been writing since he was fifteen, mainly science fiction. His story Through the Water That Binds won the 1991 Canberra SF Society's short story competition. It also featured in the Australian landmark science fiction anthology, Alien Shores. In addition to science fiction, he has written mainstream stories, poetry and articles about the state of science fiction in film and television.Read Shane's own story:
"There have been four defining stages in my writing career. At the age of 12, I read Heinlein's short story, By His Bootstraps, and immediately became obsessed with tales of time-travel and, consequently, science fiction. At the age of 15, I was encouraged by my English teacher to write short stories. Six years later I read Delany's Dhalgren and realised that this was the type of writing I aspired to. Finally, at the age of 30 I met fellow South Australian writer, Sean Williams.
I began with short stories, a number of which made it into various magazines and anthologies. Sean and I have written a dozen novels, including not only The Evergence Trilogy, which was published in the UK by Swift Publishers, but also a trilogy in the popular Star Wars: New Jedi Order series. Most of my work has been science fiction, but there's also been a couple of mainstream/literary pieces in there. I've even dabbled in poetry, for which I would like to apologise unequivocally.
These days I no longer limit myself to science fiction, though I still write short stories. For the last few years I have been writing a supernatural thriller, which is now complete and looking for a suitable publisher. The second, a murder/mystery, I hope to have finished by Christmas. I dream of one day penning a Delany-esque book. Who knows - maybe it will happen, maybe it won't. And, despite the beard, long hair and considerably different writing styles, I am still, on occasion, mistaken for Sean.
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