Bio
Alastair Mayer was born in London, UK, raised in Canada and now lives in Colorado. A long-time SF fan and sometime space and computer writer, Alastair became eligible for the John W. Campbell Award with the publication "Light Conversation", a Probability Zero feature in the June 2010 issue of Analog. His homage to Edgar Allen Poe, "Poetic Justice", is the lead story in the anthology Space Horrors published in October 2010.
He has sold four more stories to Analog, including a soon-to-appear collaboration with Brad Torgersen, and published a novel, The Chara Talisman, which builds on his story "Stone Age" from Analog's June 2011 issue. Sequels, new Probability Zero stories and others are in the works.
Bibliography
Alastair Mayer's Campbell-qualifying work:
"Light Conversation" in Analog, June 2010.
Other works:
"Snowball" in Footprints, pub. Hadley Rille Press, Ed. Jay Lake & Eric T Reynolds, 2009
"The Gremlin Gambit" in MindFlights, September 2009
"Poetic Justice" in Space Horrors, pub. Flying Pen Press, Ed. David Lee Summers,2010.
"Small Penalties" in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, April 2011.
"Stone Age" in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, June, 2011.
"The Sock Problem" in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, October 2011.
The Chara Talisman (novel) pub. Mabash Books, 2011.
"Strobe Effect" (with Brad Torgersen) in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, forthcoming 2012.