David Walton (born October 26, 1975) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer living in Philadelphia. His novel Terminal Mind won the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award for the best paperback science fiction novel published in the United States, in a tie with Adam-Troy Castro's novel Emissaries from the Dead.
Career After years of short story writing, Walton published his award-winning novel Terminal Mind in 2008, followed by Quintessence and its sequel Quintessence Sky in 2013 and Superposition and its sequel Supersymmetry in 2015. The rights to a TV adaptation of the Superposition series was sold in late 2015.
Awards 2018 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel - for "The Genius Plague" 2009 Philip K. Dick Award (tie) - for best original paperback of the year "Terminal Mind""Castro and Walton Win 2009 Philip K. Dick Award", Locus, May 2009.VanderMeer, Jeff. "Philip K. Dick Award Winners Announced: A Tie Between Castro and Walton", Omnivoracious, 15 April 2009. 2008 Jim Baen Memorial Award - for short story "Letting Go"
Bibliography
Novels
Short fiction
StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted. TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotesFly like the light2001
"Anyone Can Whistle", Electric Wine, 2001 "All About Eventualities", Neverworlds, 2002 "Hands", Aoife's Kiss, 2004 "All The Rage This Year", All The Rage This Year, Phobos Books, 2004 "No Forwarding Address", Anotherealm, 2005 "The Problem of Friction", Lenox Avenue, 2005 "Diamond Dust", Futurismic, 2005 "Anyone Can Whistle", Escape Pod, 2006 "Rival of Mars", Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2006 "The Towers of St. Michael's", Futurismic, 2007 "When Peace and Redemption Collide", Continuum SF, 2007 "Raven Crumbling", Fantastical Visions anthology, 2007 "Mattie's Cougar", Touched by Wonder anthology, Meadowhawk Press, 2007 "Permission to Speak Freely", Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2007 "Rings of Jupiter", Talebones, 2008 "Letting Go", Jim Baen's Universe, Cosmos, 2008 "Dragonfly Savior", Fantastical Visions anthology, 2009
Critical studies and reviews of Walton's work Superposition
References
External links
Interview at Tor.com
The story behind Quintessence - Online Essay by David Walton