Two-Time Aurora Award Winner
Author of "Transubstantiation", winner of Canada's national science fiction award, the 2006 Prix Aurora Award for Best Short-Form Work in English.
Co-editor of The Dragon and the Stars, winner of the 2011 Aurora Award for Best Related Work in English.
Recipient of the Outstanding Asian Canadian Award "Honouring the Pioneers" from the Canadian Multiculturalism Council - Asians in Ontario, 2019.
My blog: http://derwinmaksf.blogspot.com/
NEWS:
Two stories were published in 2022:
"The Barbecue Battle" in Speculative City, issue 13, Summer 2022. It's another story of the XY-Girls on planet Southern Comfort.
"Software Update" in Clarity, an anthology published by Other Worlds Ink. It's about the relationship between a woman and her accounting AI.
"The Perpetual Foreigner Syndrome in Chinese North American Science Fiction and Fantasy" published by The New York Review of Science Fiction
My article "The Perpetual Foreigner Syndrome in Chinese North American Science Fiction and Fantasy" has been published by The New York Review of Science Fiction, issue 348. The article was first presented as a paper at the 2017 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy in Toronto. The article shows how the stories of Ken Liu, William F. Wu, and Eric Choi have examined the perpetual foreigner stereotype imposed on Chinese Americans and Canadians. Get your copy of the New York Review of Science Fiction, issue 348, here.
Upcoming Appearances:
Ad Astra Science Fiction Convention, 2020.
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