| Simon Petrie | |
| Birth Place: | New Zealand |
| Nationality: | New Zealand, Australia |
| Genre: | Speculative fiction |
| Children: | Tycho Petrie (Son) |
| Awards: | Sir Julius Vogel Award |
Simon Petrie is a New Zealand-born speculative fiction writer now based in Canberra, Australia. He is predominantly recognised as a writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres.[1] Petrie's stories have appeared in a number of Australian publications including Borderlands, Aurealis and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine,[2] in New Zealand publications such as Semaphore Magazine and several Random Static anthologies, and in magazines elsewhere in the English-speaking world such as Redstone Science Fiction, Murky Depths and Sybil's Garage. He is a former member of the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine collective and has edited five issues of the magazine.
Petrie's work has seen several nominations for Australian and New Zealand speculative fiction awards and he has won the Sir Julius Vogel Award (New Zealand SF Award) three times: in 2010 for Best New Talent,[3] and in 2013 and 2018 for Best Novella or Novelette.[4] [5] He is best known for two series of stories: his 'Gordon Mamon' stories ("Murder on the Zenith Express", "Single Handed", "The Fall Guy", The Hunt For Red Leicester, "A Night To Remember", "Elevator Pitch" and "This Guy's The Limit") centred around the exploits of a space-elevator operative who doubles as a reluctant detective and his 'Titan' stories (Wide Brown Land, a collection of eleven short stories, and the novella Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body) exploring human colonization of the Saturnian satellite.
Collected short fiction
Novellas
Anthologies—as editor or coeditor
In the following table, entries with a blue background won the award; those with a white background were the nominees on the short-list.
Award winner
Nominee on the shortlist
| Year | Work | Award | Category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Murder on the Zenith Express" | Best Short Story | ||||
| (body of work) | Best New Talent | ||||
| (body of work) | Best New Talent | ||||
| "Single Handed" | Best Novella or Novelette | ||||
| "Downdraft" | Best Short Story | ||||
| (body of work) | Best New Talent | ||||
| Rare Unsigned Copy | Best Collected Work | ||||
| Flight 404 | Best Novella or Novelette | ||||
| Light Touch Paper, Stand Clear | Best Collected Work | ||||
| Flight 404 | Best Novella or Novelette | ||||
| The Hunt For Red Leicester | Best Novella or Novelette | ||||
| Difficult Second Album | Best Collection | ||||
| "All the Colours of the Tomato" | Best Science Fiction Novella | ||||
| "All the Colours of the Tomato" | Best Novella or Novelette | < | |||
| Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body | Best Science Fiction Novella | ||||
| Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body | Best Novella or Novelette | ||||
| Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body | Best Novella or Novelette |