Peter Friend (author)

Peter Friend is a New Zealand born science fictionwriter who won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for fiction three times.^[1] His stories have been published in Asimov's Science Fiction, Aurealis, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and elsewhere.

The stories he has won awards for are:

• "The Good Earth" (2002 Sir Julius Vogel Award)
• "The Alchemist" - Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #8 which tied for first with “A Plea for Help” - by Kevin G Maclean Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #6 (2004 Sir Julius Vogel Award)
• "The Real Deal" published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 2005 (2006 Sir Julius Vogel Award)
• He also had a story shortlisted for the 2005 Sir Julius Vogel Award: "The Christmas Tree" - published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine

Short films

Peter has also won both the Hobbyist Category and Overall prizes at the 2007 Moviefest short film competition, for a 5-minute animated film entitled 'Monocular'.

References

1. Locus Index to SF awards

• SFFANZ - Sir Julius Vogel homepage

External links

• Peter Friend at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine