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William Shunn (born August 14, 1967) is a science fiction writer and computer programmer. He was raised in a Latter-day Saint household, the oldest of eight children. He attended the Clarion Workshop in 1985. In 1986, he served a mission to Canada for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but was arrested for making a false bomb threat, for the purpose of preventing his fellow missionary from returning home.〔("Missionary gets day's jail, $2,000 fine for bomb hoax" ), Monica Zurowski, ''Calgary Herald'', February 27, 1987〕 Shunn received a B.S. in computer science at the University of Utah in 1991.〔("Through the Years" ), ''Continuum: The Magazine of the University of Utah'', Fall 2007〕 He went to work for WordPerfect Corporation and was part of the team that developed WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS (the word processor's final major DOS version, released in 1993). In 1995, he moved from Utah to New York City. He left the LDS Church at the same time and created one of the earliest ex-Mormon web sites.〔("Mormon Matter" )〕 Shunn's first professional short story was published in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' in 1993.〔Editorial introduction to "From Our Point of View We Had Moved to the Left," ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,'' February 1993〕 He has been nominated once for the Hugo Award and twice for the Nebula Award. In the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, he created what may have been the first online survivor registry.〔''Journalism After September 11,'' Barbie Zelizer and Stuart Allan (eds), Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0-415-28799-5〕〔("Online help spawns hope for victims" ), Charles Cooper, CNET News.com, September 13, 2001〕 ==Awards and nominations== * 2001: Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites" (''Vanishing Acts,'' ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor Books, New York, NY, 2000) * 2006: Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novella and Nebula Award for Best Novella for "Inclination" (''Asimov's Science Fiction'', April/May 2006) 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「William Shunn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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