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	Geoff Ryman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Geoffrey Charles Ryman (born 1951) is a writer of science fiction, fantasy and slipstream fiction.
		He was born in Canada, and has lived most of his life in England.
		Interview with Geoff Ryman conducted by Kit Reed at Infinity Plus, discussing his novel Air and the Mundane SF movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geoff_Ryman (193 words)

	Salon \| 21st
		Geoff Ryman is a tall, ravaged, nervous-looking middle-aged man in tourist dress.
		Geoff Ryman is actually a very tall Canadian with a slightly nervous disposition who lives in London and writes award-winning novels that can loosely be described as science fiction.
		Ryman specializes in weird, uncomfortable novels Greenland admiringly characterizes as "fantasy with real politics and real pain." In "The Child Garden" (1989), which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1990, Ryman examines a world in which viruses are the primary force not just in medicine but in social engineering and education as well.
	archive.salon.com /march97/21st/london970320.html (1414 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		Expanded from his April 2001 Fantasy and Science Fiction story "Have Not Have," Geoff Ryman's novel Air is something of a return to the approach that characterized the author's celebrated early works: a female protagonist perceived as being powerless, often brutally oppressed by forces who benefit from the status quo.
		The people of Ryman's Kizuldah are materially poor and are not too proud to desire help, but they value their lifestyle and their communal identity.
		Ryman's charmingly eccentric and willful protagonist, Chung Mae, who accepts the inevibility of the world-opening Air, encapsulates this ambiguity in one of the novel's most strikingly memorable pieces of dialogue: "I'm sure the people who do this think they do a good thing.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue350/books.html (563 words)

	Kathleen Ann Goonan reviews WAS
		Ryman prefaces several chapters with excerpts from another of her books, For Your Own Good: The Roots of Violence in Child-rearing, which underscore his point about the vulnerability of childhood and help us see the true story of Jonathan, who carries the present-day storyline.
		Ryman seems to be saying that we are shirking our human duty to linger in childhood's realm, to yearn for Oz instead of facing the truth of Was.
		Geoff Ryman cares deeply about that which is most central and true in all humans--the capacity for love and redemption and the ability to have a direct relationship with the world.
	www.goonan.com /was.html (2257 words)

	VAO by Geoff Ryman - an infinity plus review
		Ryman's protagonist is Alistair Brewster, though he is referred to throughout most of the text as Mr Brewster, as befits an 80-year-old resident of the Happy Farm home.
		Ryman's residents of the Happy Farm are a charming bunch of rogues.
		Despite this, Ryman suggests, and I hope it's true, that the next generation of old people might just be cool enough, smart enough, and goddamn ornery enough to create havoc and have the last laugh.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/vao.htm (704 words)

	253 or Tube Theater: A Novel for the Internet about London Underground in Seven Cars and a Crash by Geoff Ryman - R A I ...
		Geoff Ryman, whose previous (paper) novels include WAS and The Child Garden, builds this hypertext novel around a simple, rigorous format: for each of the 253 passengers riding seven cars of London's Bakerloo subway line (driver included), Ryman gives us a one page character sketch.
		Ryman gives us insight into the characters' internal diversity as well, generating three-dimensional characters out of the contrast between their appearance and their secrets.
		Ryman strikes a number of different moods in various sketches, and many are quite moving.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/1997fall/ryman.shtml (857 words)

	Libertas -- Living -- 253
		Last year Geoff Ryman, author of Was (1992), a parody of The Wizard of Oz, offered us a fine piece of gimmickry: the ‘print remix’ of his hypertext novel, 253.
		Ryman reduces his characters into three layers of data: ‘Outward Appearance,’ ‘Inside Information,’ and finally ‘What He or She is Thinking’.
		Ryman is nothing of a Barth or Joyce or even a mild Cortazar, and his ineptitude presents the reader with an intolerable idea of humankind that is wholly unliterary.
	davidson.edu /student/organizations/libertas/00/April/6/living/253.html (967 words)

	Was: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Geoff Ryman returns us to childhood, the time when the distinction between art and reality was not so clear.
		Ryman's premise is that Baum, the original author, met a Dorothy in Kansas from whom he (Baum) got the inspriation for his story.
		But Ryman's imagining of Frank Baum's inspiration for Dorothy is stunning, as is the scene of the real Dorothy in the late 1950's confined to an asylum where she will see her first television program as a new attempt at therapy.
	www.ferretexpert.info /stuff-0679404295.html (3067 words)

	Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Peace Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of the most successful narratives of this type is Geoff Ryman's The Unconquered Country, set in Pol Pot's Cambodia.
		Originally published in 1982 in the British science-fiction magazine Interzone, Ryman's story went on to win the British Fantasy Award for Best Novella in 1985 and the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction in the same year.
		Ryman's strange and beautiful story uses the metaphors of fantasy to pierce hearts calloused by the numbing realism of the evening news.
	www.unr.edu /chgps/ryman.html (474 words)

	scribblingwoman: Geoff Ryman rules. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I have posted on Ryman before; in fact, I began this blog by referring to him, and have posted on him now and then since.
		Introduced by award winning authors Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, Tesseracts Nine presents 23 unique views on how Canadians are different enough to be perceived as unique by the rest of the world.
		Tesseracts Nine's editors, Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, were themselves selected as representatives of modern Canadian innovative and futuristic fiction and poetry.
	www.unbsj.ca /arts/english/jones/mt/archives/002003.html (818 words)

	Netsoc: Events: Geoff Ryman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Geoff Ryman is the author of the celebrated Web interactive novel, "253".
		For those of you with external web access, go to http://www.ryman-novel.com to have a look at it - but be prepared to lose several hours of your life reading it.
		Mr Ryman is currently working on another Web novel, and invites Internet users everywhere to contribute to it.
	www.netsoc.tcd.ie /events/9899/geoffryman.php (168 words)

	Geoff Ryman interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction
		Geoff says, "Well, I knew the UK was going to experiment with digital TV and were particularly interested in the interactive aspects as a sort of substitute Web.
		Geoff says, "So anyway, Mae just came to me. It turned out that her name means something like Have not Have in a form of Chinese...
		Geoff says, "A FALL OF ANGELS had my first lines in which the character suddenly spoke internally from the heart to themselves, which was a breakthrough for me...
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/intgr.htm (4586 words)

	Geoff Ryman Bibliography
		Geoff Ryman was born in Canada, to a journalist mother and a father in science.
		It was through his mother that Geoff, when he was eight, had a short story published in the local paper.
		But it was his father who inspired Geoff with stories of lasers — it was a fascination which was to last.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /authors/Geoff_Ryman.htm (207 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Unconquered Countries: Four Novellas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ryman (Was) works on a scale as vast as the universe and as intimate as the soul--even when the format is short as it is in the four novellas that make up this collection.
		Written between 1976 and 1989, not all the novellas are equally polished, but even the darkest story is imbued with a spirit that struggles against sentimentality and towards spiritual awakening.
		I like Ryman a lot--his novel, The Child Garden, is one of my favorite novels, and I thought that both Was and 253 were very good.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312099290 (712 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: 253 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Geoff Ryman has taken an incredibly obvious idea for a story and turned it into a piece of amusing, fascinating, and often moving work of fiction.
		Although it's not a flowing novel, Geoff has managed in few words (253 exactly for each character) to provide a synopsis of each person, their thoughts, emotions and other relevant information.
		Ryman creates characters more captivating and involving in 253 words than some authors manage in a novel of as many pages.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0006550789 (975 words)

	Geoff Ryman: V.A.O.
		Ryman manages to infuse humor into the proceedings while also examining societal problems which already exist and will only get worse in the future and the number of retirees grows and the average lifespan lengthens.
		The identity of the Silhouette is reasonably obvious from his earliest mention, but the way in which Ryman makes that information known to Brewster is both credible and interesting, managing to carry through the reasonably short story without seeming to be stretched thin by the author.
		Although Ryman provides only small roles for most of his supporting characters, the other residents of Happy Farms come across as interesting and just a bit mischievous.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/vao.html (327 words)

	LUST - Four Letters. Infinite Possibilities by Geoff Ryman
		I also appreciated the fact that Ryman's character is approaching forty and is quite settled into his lifestyle (at least initially) and differs considerably from the 'youthful clubber' gay stereotype that many authors populate their novels with.
		Ryman enters into a dialogue concerning our ability to allow love and sex to destroy others and mutilate ourselves or, alternatively, how these things can save lives and resurrect the narcoleptic spirit.
		Ryman even manages to give us a little insight into how this particular gift would be used by other less responsible characters than David.
	www.computercrowsnest.com /sfnews2/03_sept/review0903_30.shtml (930 words)

	Lust: Geoff Ryman [Review © T Brown, 2001] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Geoff Ryman’s latest novel, though not strictly science fiction, is based on a simple scientific hypothesis: what if you could sleep with anyone?
		Because Lust is a novel by Geoff Ryman, applauded for his unflinching examinations of the horrors (as well as the humour) of the human situation, it is not only a sexual comedy, but also an experiment concerning morality and maturity.
		Many readers, unfamiliar with Geoff Ryman’s previous work and enticed by the glossy, Man and Boy-style cover, will abandon the story when Michael confronts the worst spectres of his past.
	www.avnet.co.uk /amaranth/Critic/ryman1.htm (479 words)

	interrogation report: Geoff Ryman, Was: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ryman retells the story of Dorothy Gael of Kansas and the stories of the people whose lives are affected by her.
		Dorothy's story is told from the opposite perspective of Frank Baum's stories -- that home is the place one should escape from, childhood fantasy is the only place people are ever happy, and we spend our entire lives trying to overcome the tragic day when our fantasies were crushed.
		Some that I have talked to found the text too realistic, but for me this made the questions the text put forth more visible.
	www.xmission.com /~jeffress/reports/b/B199415.html (130 words)

	Geoff Ryman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Geoffrey Charles Ryman (born 1951) is a writer of (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) science fiction, (Imagination unrestricted by reality) fantasy and (The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller) slipstream fiction.
		He was born in (A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada) Canada, and has lived most of his life in England.
		The print version was published in 1998 and won the (Click link for more info and facts about Philip K. Dick Memorial Award) Philip K. Dick Memorial Award.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/geoff_ryman.htm (175 words)

	HorizonZero Issue 01 : WRITE
		Each novel is, on one level, about the protagonist's quest for healing and relief from the intractable harshness of her life.
		(1992), Ryman's fourth and perhaps best novel, represented a summation of his work to that date, and can be read as a commentary upon it.
		None of Ryman's novels are consolatory, even if they offer moments of transcendence and healing, such as that experienced by Third Child at the close of
	www.horizonzero.ca /textsite/write.php?is=1&art=0&file=14&tlang=0 (587 words)

	Feminist SFF & Utopia: Reviews: Geoff Ryman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The novel details Milena's tremendous impact on her world as she struggles to find love, make art, and retain her individuality.
		For me the story dragged a bit at times, when Ryman seemed to me to belabour some point unnecessarily.
		At other times, I wanted him to say more: for example, he only hints once or twice at a racist resentment of the Chinese, who spearheaded the revolution and now seem to control the government.
	www.feministsf.org /femsf/reviews/ryman.g.html (267 words)

	Cities, fantasy anthology of four novellas edited by Peter Crowther
		Geoff Ryman (1951-) was born in Canada and raised in Canada and the United States, but has lived in Great Britain since 1973.
		Perhaps Ryman's most unusual work of all was 253, a web-based series of descriptions of each of the 253 passengers on a train, each told in exactly 253 words.
		Ryman is also a playwright, often adapting other SF writers' work to the stage.
	members.aol.com /tirfell/cities.htm (1898 words)

	BBC - collective - 253 - geoff ryman
		What Geoff Ryman has done is tap into the human instinct for unabashed noseyness.
		Um, okay, perhaps not the last one, but Ryman has set a limit of 253 words to describe each character (excluding footnotes), including what they look like, where they're going, and an idea of their personality and life.
		The tube train is a perfect location, too, as it's a place where the tramps rub shoulders with the posh women who bump against the briefcases of the businessmen who cower from the punks.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A3091547 (568 words)

	Geoff Ryman, Was (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I met Geoff Ryman because my associate producer set up an interview with him during our trip to London.
		I had not read any of Ryman's fiction, although I owned copies of The Child Garden and Was because they'd both been recommended so highly.
		In Was, Ryman spins a tale of intersecting lives that spans more than a century, the time during which the world of Oz has been a part of our world.
	www.rambles.net /ryman_was.html (255 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Online Q&A session: Geoff Ryman
		Geoff Ryman is the author 0f 253, an interlinked text available on the web or in print.
		Geoff - I found reading this as a book a totally different experience to reading it online.
		I have to confess, first time I saw the name I thought it was a joke, something out of James Bond or that ilk.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,,541537,00.html (2835 words)

	Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: R: Ryman, Geoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Interview: 200 Words with Geoff Ryman · Author describes the problems inherent in online novels.
		There's No Place Like Home · Essay comparing how Ryman (in "Was") and Frederick Jackson Turner view childhood and the American frontier.
		ISFDB: Geoff Ryman Bibliography Summary · cached · Includes novels, short fiction and essays.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=931497 (76 words)

	Geoff Ryman - MiC Entry
		Geoffrey Charles Ryman was born in Canada in 1951and has lived in the U.K. since 1973.
		Geoff has won 5 major SF and fantasy awards.
		His short story The Unconquered Country won both the British Science Fiction Award and the World Fantasy Award in 1985.
	www.geocities.com /canadian_sf/pages/authors/ryman.htm (111 words)

	trAce Forums - Geoff Ryman - is he out there? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I've just been reading it for the first time, and I'd like to contact him if possible, because there was once a print version of the novel and if it's still for sale I'd like to list it on The Hyperliterature Exchange.
		Geoff Ryman came to our first Incubation conference and gave a fantastic talk - audio here http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/archive/2000/level2/intro_fr.htm.
		Last year I went to a talk Geoff gave in his role as Head of New Media Unit in the Central Office of Information (UK Government).
	trace.ntu.ac.uk /forums/messageview.cfm?catid=10&threadid=771 (516 words)

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