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Greg van Eekhout is a science fiction and fantasy writer. His "In the Late December" (2003) was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and his middle-grade fantasy novel ''The Boy at the End of the World'' was nominated for the 2012 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. ==Biography and career== Van Eekhout's parents are of Indo (Dutch-Indonesian) extraction. His last name (meaning "of Oakwood") is pronounced "like this: Van, as in the kind of thing you drive, eek, as in, 'Eek, killer robots are stomping the rutabagas!' and hout, like 'out' with an h in front of it. The emphasis is on the Eek."〔http://writingandsnacks.com/about-me/〕 He grew up in Los Angeles and attended UCLA, where he received a Bachelor's in English. He earned a Master's in Educational Media and Computers at Arizona State, and worked for a time at ASU designing multimedia. He attended the writing workshop Viable Paradise in 1999. His first professionally published story, "Wolves Till the World Goes Down," (2001) appeared in the anthology ''Starlight 3'' and was later reprinted in ''Fantasy: The Best of 2001''. His story "In the Late December" (2003) was nominated for Nebula Award for Best Short Story. His work has also appeared in a number of other places, including ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', ''Realms of Fantasy'', the ''Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'', and ''Strange Horizons''. His first novel, ''Norse Code'', an adult urban fantasy, was published by Bantam Books in May 2009. His second novel, a middle-grade fantasy titled ''Kid Vs. Squid'', was released by Bloomsbury Children's USA on May 11, 2010. ''The Boy at the End of the World'', also a middle-grade fantasy, was released in June 2011 by Bloomsbury Children's USA. His fourth novel, ''California Bones'', was published by Tor Books on June 10, 2014. It is the first in a planned trilogy based on his 2006 short story "The Osteomancer’s Son", anthologized in ''Year’s Best Fantasy 7'' and ''Best Fantasy of the Year: 2007''.〔(Writing and Snacks - New book deal! )〕 The second in the series, ''Pacific Fire'', was published on January 27, 2015. He currently lives in San Diego, California. 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「Greg van Eekhout」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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