Brian Francis Slattery
American writer
Brian Francis Slattery is an American writer and an editor at the New Haven Review. He has published four novels, Spaceman Blues (Tor, 2007), Liberation (Tor, 2008), Lost Everything (Tor, 2012), and The Family Hightower (Seven Stories Press, 2014).
Spaceman Blues was nominated for best novel by both the Lambda Literary Awards and the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards . The editors of Amazon.com named Liberation the best science fiction/fantasy book of 2008, saying it "combined the serious and the satirical in creating an unforgettable image of a future America beset by the collapse of the dollar and the specter of a new form of slavery."
Lost Everything won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2012.
Slattery plays and teaches the fiddle and the banjo, and he lives outside New Haven, Connecticut with his family.
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