Matt Hughes
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Matt Hughes

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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I write space-opera science fiction and fantasy mostly set in my extrapolation of Jack Vance’s Dying Earth. I make no bones about being heavily influenced by Vance, whose work I first encountered as a thirteen-year-old in the early 1960s. I also write crime fiction as Matt Hughes. Booklist has called me Vance’s “heir apparent” and George R.R. Martin says I “do Jack Vance better than anyone except Jack himself.” I am very proud to have been authorized by the Vance estate to write BARBARIANS OF THE BEYOND, a companion novel to Vance’s iconic DEMON PRINCES series. I’m Canadian, a university drop-out from a working-poor background. I’ve been a professional writer all my adult life and was staff speechwriter to two federal cabinet ministers in the 1970s. Then for three decades, I was the top-rated freelance speechwriter in British Columbia. Since segueing into fiction-writing, I’ve sold twenty-four novels to publishers large and small in the UK, US, and Canada (not counting reprints, book club deals, and foreign translations), as well as 100 works of short fiction to professional markets. Lately, I’ve been self-publishing new works. I've won the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award and the Endeavour Award, and have been shortlisted for the Aurora, Locus, Nebula, Philip K. Dick, Endeavour (twice), A.E. Van Vogt, Neffy, and High Plains, and Derringer Awards. In 2021, I was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association’s Hall of Fame. George R.R. Martin has called me “criminally underrated.” Robert J. Sawyer has called me a “towering talent.” David Gerrold says I’m a “treasure.”
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