Eric Brown (24 May 1960 – 21 March 2023) was a British science fiction author and The Guardian critic.
[1] Eric Brown was born in Haworth, Yorkshire, in May 1960,[2] and began writing in 1975.
In the 1980s he travelled extensively throughout Greece and Asia (some of his novels are set in India).
His career took off in the late 1980s with a succession of short stories in the magazine Interzone and other publications.
He was voted the Best New European SF writer of the Year in the early 1990s and subsequently won the BSFA Award twice (for the short stories "Hunting the Slarque" in 1999 and "Children of Winter" in 2001).