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Bewildering Stories

Matthew Hughes

Bewildering Stories biography

Matthew Hughes writes fantasy, space opera, and crime fiction. He has sold 24 novels to publishers large and small in the UK, US, and Canada, as well as more than 100 works of short fiction to professional markets, including 43 sales to the venerable Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

In recent years, he has been self-publishing novels and story collections. His latest novels are: Margolyam and Henchmen, both set in his ongoing extrapolation of Jack Vance’s Dying Earth His 2023 Dying Earth novel, The Ghost-Wrangler, recently won the Global Book Award in the dark fantasy category.

He has also won the Endeavour and Arthur Ellis Awards, and has been shortlisted for the Aurora, Nebula, Philip K. Dick, Endeavour (twice), A.E. Van Vogt, Neffy, Derringer, and High Plains Book Awards. In 2020 he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association’s Hall of Fame.

You can visit his Wikipedia page here.

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Bewildering Stories bibliography

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