Name Michael Flynn Education La Salle University | Role Statistician | |
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Full Name Michael Francis Flynn Born 1947 (age 67–68) Easton, Pennsylvania, USA Awards Robert A. Heinlein Award Short stories The Journeyman: In the Stone House Nominations Hugo Award for Best Novelette Books Eifelheim, The January Dancer, The Wreck of the River of Stars, Fallen Angels, Rogue Star Similar People Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, Kevin Flynn, Robert A Heinlein | ||
Michael Francis Flynn (born 1947) is an American statistician and science fiction author.
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Nearly all of Flynn's work falls under the category of hard science fiction, although his treatment of it can be unusual since he has applied the rigor of hard science fiction to "softer" sciences such as sociology in works such as In the Country of the Blind. Much of his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
Biography
Flynn was born in Easton, Pennsylvania. He earned a B.A. in Mathematics from La Salle University and an M.S. in topology from Marquette University.
He has been employed as an industrial quality engineer and statistician.
Awards
Flynn has been nominated for Hugo Awards seven times:
Flynn has twice won the Prometheus Award, first for his novel In the Country of the Blind, and then for the novel Fallen Angels, co-written with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, which also won the Seiun Award.
The story "House of Dreams" won a Theodore Sturgeon Award in 1998.
Michael Flynn was the first author winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Medal, a lifetime achievement award given by the Heinlein Society on the advice of its Awards Committee (Dr. Yoji Kondo, Chairman). Other Heinlein Medal winners include Greg Bear, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle.