![]() Here, in interview form, is the sort of thing he doesn't talk about in class. McIntosh's students are far more likely to hear about the psychological milestones of 2-year-old twins Hannah and Miles than any mention of his sci-fi works. Alison Scott, and they soon became parents. Three years ago, he married a GSU public health professor, Dr. He landed on his first professorial job at GSU and is still there after 21 years. ![]() After growing up in the New York suburbs, he made his way to the University of Georgia 25 years ago as a Ph.D. Yet Georgia Southern University students know him as Dr. Thanks to the Hugo and a simultaneous nomination for that other stellar sci-fi award, the Nebula, he now has a movie agent and is starting to work with a writing partner on a screenplay. The most acclaimed, debuting in magazines such as Asimov's Science Fiction, have been translated into Russian, Finnish, French, Chinese, Romanian. About 50 have since appeared in print and in online magazines. ![]() ![]() By his count, his first stories, including "Faller," were rejected 88 times over three years before one was published. After a dream 10 years ago in which he fell off the earth and made his way to another planet, McIntosh, a sci-fi fan from childhood, started writing his own stories. In September 2010, Will McIntosh won the Hugo Award, the science fiction writer's equivalent of an Academy Award, for his short story "Bridesicle." Now his first novel, "Soft Apocalypse," has been released by Night Shade Books. ![]()
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