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Frank Wu is an American science fiction and fantasy artist living in Arlington, Massachusetts. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist in 2004,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2004 Hugo Awards )〕 2006,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2006 Hugo Awards )〕 2007〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2007 Hugo Award Nominations )〕 and 2009;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2009 Hugo Awards )〕 he was previously nominated in 2002 and 2003. He also won the Grand Prize (the Gold Award) in the Illustrators of the Future contest in 2000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2000 Writer & Illustrators of the Future Awards ) 〕 In 2008 he was nominated for a fourth Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist, but declined the nomination. Nominated again in 2009, he accepted and won his fourth Hugo, but used his acceptance speech to encouraged future voters to consider other candidates.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2009 Hugo Award Nominations )〕 Wu works in many media, including acrylic and digital painting, and created a portrait of a Klingon girl for the documentary about the Klingon language, ''Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water''. He is a regular contributor to science fiction webzines, such as ''The Drink Tank'', and in 2009 announced his ultimately unsuccessful candidacy for 2010's TransAtlantic Fan Fund. Wu is also a filmmaker, having released in 2006 the animated short, "The Tragical Historie of Guidolon the Giant Space Chicken". A Director's Cut of this short was released in 2007, and a full-length version is now in production. In addition to these activities, Wu holds a Ph.D. in bacterial genetics from University of Wisconsin–Madison,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Replication of Plasmid R6K in Bacterium E. coli )〕 though his day job is in patent law for a pharmaceutical conglomerate. He is also a member of BASFA, the Bay Area Science Fiction Association.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The San Francisco Bay Area Science Fiction Association )〕 He also provided designs for the spaceships as well as the space station N313 for the videogame ''Revolution 60''. He also co-wrote and produced illustrations for the game's technical manual, ''The Chessboard Lethologica'', which provides more background on the universe, characters and technology of ''Revolution 60''. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Wu (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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