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Simon Petrie

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Born

in New Zealand

Website

http://simonpetrie.wordpress.com/

Twitter

fomalhaut451

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Humor, Short Stories

Influences

Tove Jansson, Iain M. Banks, P.G. Wodehouse, Douglas Adams, Ursula K. ...more

Member Since

January 2010

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Born on the South Island of New Zealand and now living on the North Island of Australia, Simon Petrie is a Canberra-based research scientist and writer of speculative fiction (SF, fantasy, and occasionally horror). Since 2007, his stories have appeared in various magazines, webzines and anthologies. He has been shortlisted several times for Ditmar, Sir Julius Vogel, and Aurealis Awards, and has won the Sir Julius Vogel Award three times (in 2010 for Best New Talent and in 2013 and 2018 for Best Novella / Novelette).

Simon is a member of the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild and of SpecFicNZ. He has served on three different judging panels for the Aurealis Awards, in the SF Novel, Anthology & Collection, and Fantasy Short Story categories. H ...more

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Simon Petrie’s books

Average rating: 4.13 · 483 ratings · 164 reviews · 59 distinct works

	Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body: A Guerline Scarfe Investigation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Next by Simon Petrie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Porteous (Editor), Martin Livings (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue 54 by Simon Petrie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anatoly Belilovsky (Goodreads Author), Sue Bursztynski (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flight 404 / The Hunt for Red Leicester 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Use Only as Directed by Simon Petrie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Edwina Harvey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen Dedman (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wide Brown Land: stories of Titan by Simon Petrie (Goodreads Author), Edwina Harvey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shauna O'Meara (Illustrations) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rare Unsigned Copy: Tales of Rocketry, Ineptitude, and Giant Mutant Vegetables 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue 61 by Simon Petrie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Barber, Sean Monaghan (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flight 404 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	80,000 Totally Secure Passwords That No Hacker Would Ever Guess really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars