Charles Coleman Finlay
- Author
- editor
- Science fiction
- fantasy
Charles Coleman Finlay (born July 1, 1964 in New York City, NY) is an American science fiction and fantasy author and editor.
He grew up in Marysville, Ohio[1] and attended Ohio State University. His first story, Footnotes, was published in 2001 in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF) where many of his stories have since been published.
He has published four novels and a short story collection. His fiction has been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novella, the Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the Sidewise Award, and in 2003 he was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He also wrote chapters for the "hoax-novel" Atlanta Nights.
Finlay guest edited the July/August 2014 issue of F&SF. In January 2015, Finlay was named the 9th editor of F&SF and served in that role until the January/February 2021 issue.[2] In 2021, he won a World Fantasy Award for his work editing the magazine.[3]
Personal life
He is married to the fantasy writer Rae Carson.
Awards
- 2021, World Fantasy Award for Special Award, Professional for editing F&SF
Bibliography
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Novels
- The Prodigal Troll (Pyr, 2005)
- Traitor to the Crown Book 1: The Patriot Witch as C. C. Finlay (Del Rey, 2009)
- Traitor to the Crown Book 2: A Spell for the Revolution as C. C. Finlay (Del Rey, 2009)
- Traitor to the Crown Book 3: The Demon Redcoat as C. C. Finlay (Del Rey, 2009)
In translation
- Der verlorene Troll (2007), ISBN 3-608-93786-2
- Prigioniero politico (2010), ISBN 88-95724-97-6
Collections
- Wild Things (Subterranean, 2005)
Short fiction
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
The political prisoner | 2008 | F&SF |
| |
The Texas Bake Sale | 2009 | "The Texas Bake Sale" F&SF 116/2 (Feb 2009) | ||
The empathy vaccine | 2015 | Finlay, C. C. (June 2015). "The empathy vaccine". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (6): 60–64. |
- "Pervert" 2005 Gaylactic Spectrum Award finalist (short form)
- "We Come Not to Praise Washington" 2002 Sidewise Award finalist (short form)
- "The Political Officer", finalist for Best Novella of 2002, and 2003 Hugo Award finalist for Best Novella
Editorials
- "[Untitled]". F&SF. 139 (1&2): 6–10. July–August 2020.
Interviews
- Finlay, Charles Coleman (January 2010). "The crucible". Locus (588): 64–66.
References
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External links
- Official website
- Charles Coleman Finlay at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (isfdb.org)
- Witchcraft and Revolution: A Profile of C. C. Finlay at Publishers Weekly (2009)
- Charles Coleman Finlay at Library of Congress, with 4 library catalog records (mainly previous page of browse report under 'Finlay, C. C.')
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- Ian Ballantine / Betty Ballantine (1975)
- Donald M. Grant (1976)
- Shelley Torgeson / Roy Torgeson (1977)
- Everett F. Bleiler (1978)
- Edward L. Ferman (1979)
- Donald M. Grant (1980)
- Donald A. Wollheim (1981)
- Edward L. Ferman (1982)
- Donald M. Grant (1983)
- Ian Ballantine / Betty Ballantine / Joy Chant / George Sharp / David Larkin (1984)
- Chris Van Allsburg (1985)
- Pat LoBrutto (1986)
- Jane Yolen (1987)
- David G. Hartwell (1988)
- Terri Windling / Robert Weinberg (1989)
- Mark V. Ziesing (1990)
- Arnie Fenner (1991)
- George Scithers / Darrell Schweitzer (1992)
- Jeanne Cavelos (1993)
- Tim Underwood / Chuck Miller (1994)
- Ellen Datlow (1995)
- Richard Evans (1996)
- Michael J. Weldon (1997)
- John Clute / John Grant (1998)
- Jim Turner (1999)
- Gordon Van Gelder (2000)
- Tom Shippey (2001)
- Jo Fletcher / Stephen Jones (2002)
- Gordon Van Gelder (2003)
- Peter Crowther (2004)
- S. T. Joshi (2005)
- Sean Wallace (2006)
- Ellen Asher (2007)
- Peter Crowther (2008)
- Kelly Link / Gavin Grant (2009)
- Jonathan Strahan (2010)
- Marc Gascoigne (2011)
- Eric Lane (2012)
- Lucia Graves (2013)
- Irene Gallo / William K. Schafer (2014)
- Sandra Kasturi / Brett Alexander Savory (2015)
- Stephen Jones (2016)
- Michael Levy / Farah Mendlesohn (2017)
- Harry Brockway / Patrick McGrath / Danel Olson (2018)
- Huw Lewis-Jones (2019)
- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (2020)
- Charles Coleman Finlay (2021)