Justina Robson is an author from Leeds in Yorkshire, England. She has been writing since she was a child in the 1970s and her first novel, Silver Screen was published in August 1999. Her short stories have appeared in various magazines in the UK and the USA. Silver Screen was short-listed in 1999 for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Science Fiction Association Best Novel Award. Her second novel, Mappa Mundi, together with Silver Screen, won the Amazon.co.uk Writer’s Bursary Award in 2000 and was also shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2001. Natural History, a far future novel, was published on in 2003. The novel placed second in the 2004 shortlist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and was short-listed for the Best Novel of 2003 in the British Science Fiction Association Awards. It was recently published in the USA by Bantam Dell (January 2005).
Photo: © 2005 Richard Fennell
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