Brad R. Torgersen | |
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Born | April 6, 1974 |
Occupation | Author |
Period | 1992–present |
Genre | Science fiction |
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Notable awards |
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Website | |
bradrtorgersen |
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.
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.
Torgersen was born April 6, 1974. [4] [5] His first public credit was as an unpaid script writer for locally-produced space opera serial Searcher & Stallion, which broadcast on Salt Lake City community radio KRCL FM in the early 1990s. [6] "Footprints" was published in North Seattle Community College's 2002 Licton Springs Review. [7]
In 2009, his story "Exanastasis" won third place in the third quarter Writers of the Future contest. [8] Torgersen's first professional sale occurred shortly thereafter, when editor Stanley Schmidt bought Torgersen's novelette "Outbound" for Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and the story was selected in the Analog AnLab readers' poll for Best Novelette for 2010. [9] His novelette "Ray of Light" was the cover story on the December 2011 issue of Analog and was nominated for both the Nebula Award [10] and the Hugo Award. [11] He was also nominated for the 2012 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Torgersen received two nominations for the 2014 Hugo Awards: for the novella "The Chaplain's Legacy" and the novelette "The Exchange Officers". [12] "The Chaplain's Legacy" also won the 2014 AML Award for Short Fiction. [13] The Chaplain's War, published by Baen Books in October 2014, took his Analog stories "The Chaplain's Assistant" and the AnLab-winning "The Chaplain's Legacy" and expanded them into a fix-up novel. [14] During the 2015 Hugo nomination and voting period, Torgersen led the Sad Puppies movement, [15] which claimed that popular works were often unfairly passed over by Hugo voters in favor of more literary works, or stories with progressive political themes. [16] [17]
He won his third Analog AnLab readers' choice award for the novelette "Life Flight". [18] In December 2018, Baen published A Star-Wheeled Sky, which won the 2019 Dragon Award for "Best Science Fiction Novel". [19] In February 2020 Brad was the Literary Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker at the 38th annual Life, the Universe, & Everything professional science fiction and fantasy arts symposium. [20]
As of 2015 [update] Torgersen was a chief warrant officer in the United States Army Reserve. [21]
A serial space opera story on the Searcher & Stallion radio drama show on KRCL FM. [6]
This series is written with Craig Martelle.
These are anthologies edited or co-edited by Torgersen.
Torgersen has been nominated for and won multiple awards for his various works. He is listed on Analog's Who's Who, a short listing of the "leading writers in the genre" who have been published in Analog. [23]
Year | Organization | Award title, Category |
Work | Result | Refs |
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2009 | Writers of the Future | Third quarter | "Exanastasis" | 3 | [8] [24] |
2010 | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | Analog Award, Best Novelette |
"Outbound" | Won | [9] [25] |
2011 | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | Analog Award, Best Novelette |
"Ray of Light" | Nominated | [26] |
2012 | Worldcon |
Hugo Award, Best Novelette |
"Ray of Light" | Nominated | [11] [27] |
2012 | Worldcon | John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer | – | Nominated | [28] |
2012 | SFWA |
Nebula Award, Best Novelette |
"Ray of Light" | Nominated | [10] [29] |
2013 | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | Analog Award, Best Novella |
"The Chaplain's Legacy" | Won | [30] |
2013 | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | Analog Award, Best Novelette |
"The Exchange Officers" | Nominated | [31] |
2014 | Worldcon |
Hugo Award, Best Novelette |
"The Exchange Officers" | Nominated | [32] |
2014 | Worldcon |
Hugo Award, Best Novella |
"The Chaplain's Legacy" | Nominated | [33] |
2014 | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | Analog Award, Best Novelette |
"Life Flight" | Won | [34] |
2014 | Association for Mormon Letters |
AML Awards, Short Fiction |
"The Chaplain's Legacy" | Won | [13] |
2019 | Dragon Con | Dragon Award, Best Science Fiction Novel | A Star-Wheeled Sky | Won | [19] |
Brad R. Torgersen | |
---|---|
Born | April 6, 1974 |
Occupation | Author |
Period | 1992–present |
Genre | Science fiction |
Notable works |
|
Notable awards |
|
Website | |
bradrtorgersen |
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.
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.
Torgersen was born April 6, 1974. [4] [5] His first public credit was as an unpaid script writer for locally-produced space opera serial Searcher & Stallion, which broadcast on Salt Lake City community radio KRCL FM in the early 1990s. [6] "Footprints" was published in North Seattle Community College's 2002 Licton Springs Review. [7]
In 2009, his story "Exanastasis" won third place in the third quarter Writers of the Future contest. [8] Torgersen's first professional sale occurred shortly thereafter, when editor Stanley Schmidt bought Torgersen's novelette "Outbound" for Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and the story was selected in the Analog AnLab readers' poll for Best Novelette for 2010. [9] His novelette "Ray of Light" was the cover story on the December 2011 issue of Analog and was nominated for both the Nebula Award [10] and the Hugo Award. [11] He was also nominated for the 2012 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Torgersen received two nominations for the 2014 Hugo Awards: for the novella "The Chaplain's Legacy" and the novelette "The Exchange Officers". [12] "The Chaplain's Legacy" also won the 2014 AML Award for Short Fiction. [13] The Chaplain's War, published by Baen Books in October 2014, took his Analog stories "The Chaplain's Assistant" and the AnLab-winning "The Chaplain's Legacy" and expanded them into a fix-up novel. [14] During the 2015 Hugo nomination and voting period, Torgersen led the Sad Puppies movement, [15] which claimed that popular works were often unfairly passed over by Hugo voters in favor of more literary works, or stories with progressive political themes. [16] [17]
He won his third Analog AnLab readers' choice award for the novelette "Life Flight". [18] In December 2018, Baen published A Star-Wheeled Sky, which won the 2019 Dragon Award for "Best Science Fiction Novel". [19] In February 2020 Brad was the Literary Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker at the 38th annual Life, the Universe, & Everything professional science fiction and fantasy arts symposium. [20]
As of 2015 [update] Torgersen was a chief warrant officer in the United States Army Reserve. [21]
A serial space opera story on the Searcher & Stallion radio drama show on KRCL FM. [6]
This series is written with Craig Martelle.
These are anthologies edited or co-edited by Torgersen.
Torgersen has been nominated for and won multiple awards for his various works. He is listed on Analog's Who's Who, a short listing of the "leading writers in the genre" who have been published in Analog. [23]
Year | Organization | Award title, Category |
Work | Result | Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | Writers of the Future | Third quarter | "Exanastasis" | 3 | [8] [24] |
2010 | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | Analog Award, Best Novelette |
"Outbound" | Won | [9] [25] |
2011 | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | Analog Award, Best Novelette |
"Ray of Light" | Nominated | [26] |
2012 | Worldcon |
Hugo Award, Best Novelette |
"Ray of Light" | Nominated | [11] [27] |
2012 | Worldcon | John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer | – | Nominated | [28] |
2012 | SFWA |
Nebula Award, Best Novelette |
"Ray of Light" | Nominated | [10] [29] |
2013 | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | Analog Award, Best Novella |
"The Chaplain's Legacy" | Won | [30] |
2013 | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | Analog Award, Best Novelette |
"The Exchange Officers" | Nominated | [31] |
2014 | Worldcon |
Hugo Award, Best Novelette |
"The Exchange Officers" | Nominated | [32] |
2014 | Worldcon |
Hugo Award, Best Novella |
"The Chaplain's Legacy" | Nominated | [33] |
2014 | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | Analog Award, Best Novelette |
"Life Flight" | Won | [34] |
2014 | Association for Mormon Letters |
AML Awards, Short Fiction |
"The Chaplain's Legacy" | Won | [13] |
2019 | Dragon Con | Dragon Award, Best Science Fiction Novel | A Star-Wheeled Sky | Won | [19] |