Scott Mackay is a Canadian science fiction

Science fiction

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 author

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 from Toronto

Toronto

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, where he still lives with his wife and two children. He is the award-winning author of eleven novels and over forty short stories. His short story, Last Inning, won the 1999 Arthur Ellis Award for best short mystery fiction

Mystery fiction

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. Another story, Reasons Unknown, won the Okanagan Award for best Literary Short Fiction in early 1999. His first Barry Gilbert

Barry Gilbert

.Barry Gilbert is a fictional Toronto police homicide detective in the books by Canadian science fiction author Scott Mackay....

 mystery, Cold Comfort, was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for best mystery novel, and his science fiction novel, The Meek, was a finalist for the prestigious U.S. John Campbell Memorial Award

John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

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 for Best SF Novel of 2001. His novels have been published in six languages.

Awards

• Okanagan Award for best Literary Short Fiction in 1999 for Reasons Unknown
• Arthur Ellis Award in 1999 for "Last Inning"

SF Novels

• Outpost (1998)
• The Meek (2001)
• Orbis (2002)
• Omnifix (2004)
• Tides (2005)
• Phytosphere (2007)
• Omega Sol (2008)

Novels

• A Friend in Barcelona (1991)
• Gilbert series
  Barry Gilbert
  .Barry Gilbert is a fictional Toronto police homicide detective in the books by Canadian science fiction author Scott Mackay....
  
  
  • Fall Guy (2001)
  • Old Scores (2003)
  • Cold Comfort (2004)

Short Fiction

• "Iserman's Override" (1991)
• "The Sages of Cassiopeia" (1994)
• "The Wave" (1995)
• "Reasons Unknown" (1997)
• "Like a Shadow, Like a Dream" (1997)
• "We" (1998)
• "Final Improvement" (1999)
• "The Blessing" (1999)
• "Last Inning" (1999)
• "Threshold of Perception" (2005)

External links

• Scott Mackay official website