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About Me
- Matthew Johnson
- I'm a Canadian science fiction and fantasy writer. I live in Ottawa with my wife Megan, our sons Leo and Miles and two very patient cats.
Video of me reading "Holdfast" at Ad Astra 2011
Sampler (Free Fiction)
Fall From Earth
- Order Fall From Earth from Bundoran Press
- Order Fall From Earth as Kindle ebook
- Buy the Fall From Earth audiobook from iambik audiobooks
- Download a free pdf of the first chapter
- "Matthew Johnson is a consummate prose stylist. This book is worth reading for the beauty of the language as well as for the mind-expanding hard SF ideas and philosophical notions that he brings to his work." Robert J. Sawyer
Short Fiction
- Holdfast free at Fantasy Magazine
- The Dragon's Lesson at Kasma SF
- Long Pig free at Daily Science Fiction
- Written by the Winners in Timelines
- Talking Blues in Triangulation: End of the Rainbow
- Ninth Part of Desire in Aoife's Kiss
- The Coldest War in Asimov's Science Fiction
- Lagos free online at Expanded Horizons
- The Face of the Waters in Triangulation: Taking Flight
- Outside Chance podcast free at Clonepod
- Lagos in Asimov's Science Fiction
- Heroic Measures in A Thousand Faces
- Another Country in Asimov's Science Fiction
- When We Have Time in Space and Time
- Irregular Verbs in Best New Fantasy 2
- When We Have Time in Triangulation: End of Time
- Irregular Verbs in Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2007
- Public Safety in Asimov's Science Fiction
- Heroic Measures free at Strange Horizons
- Jump, Frog! in Ten Plagues
- All the Wonderful Toys in Deathgrip: Exit Laughing
- Closing Time in Tesseracts Ten
- Irregular Verbs in Fantasy Magazine
- Ninth Part of Desire in Asimov's Science Fiction
- The Dragon's Lesson in Time for Bedlam
- Lifebuoy, Outside Chance and Closing Time in On Spec
Honours
- Holdfast receives an Honorable Mention in Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection
- Holdfast included in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011 Edition
- The Coldest War receives an Honorable Mention in Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection
- Another Country receives an Honorable Mention in Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection
- The Coldest War translated and published in Russian SF magazine Esli.
- The Coldest War translated and published in Danish SF magazine Proxima.
- Another Country translated and published in Russian SF magazine Esli.
- Public Safety nominated for a Sidewise Award.
- Public Safety included in Locus 2007 Recommended Reading list.
- Public Safety included in Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2008.
- Tesseracts Ten nominated for an Aurora award.
- Irregular Verbs and Outside Chance receive Honorable Mentions in Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection.
- Irregular Verbs included in Best New Fantasy 2.
- Irregular Verbs included in Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2007.
- Rich Horton includes Irregular Verbs and Heroic Measures in his virtual best of the year.
- Jeff Vandermeer includes Irregular Verbs in his Recommended Reading list for 2006.
- NESFA recommends Heroic Measures for a Short Story Hugo.
- Closing Time receives an Honorable Mention in Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection.
Reviews
- Rich Horton at Locus makes "Holdfast" one of December's Recommended stories, calling it "a strong story... very quietly told."
- Lois Tilton at Locus makes "Holdfast" one of December's Recommended stories, calling it "a charming, simple piece with more emotional depth than readers might at first expect."
- Jo-Anne Odell of Tangent says of Talking Blues, "It’s the underlying social commentary, presented tongue-in-cheek, that gives this tale depth."
- Sal Tomaino of SFRevu says ""The Coldest War" will chill your bones... Johnson fashions a good little tale of survival."
- Val Grimm at The Fix says of The Coldest War, "Johnson shows his craft in the masterful claustrophobia, paranoia, and formless threat with which he surrounds protagonist and reader, alone in the dark trying to survive while assailed by faceless enemies and a hostile environment."
- Nick Gevers at Locus makes Lagos one of the month's Recommended stories, "Johnson deftly evokes the African reality of simultaneous -- abrupt, jarring, yet peculiarly harmonious -- tradition and modernity."
- Lois Tilton at the IROSF recommends Lagos, calling it "a commentary on exported jobs and outsourced labor, and the gap between rich and poor, exploited and victims, in tomorrow's global economy."
- Val Grimm at The Fix says of Lagos, "This is exactly the sort of carefully set, tonally unified, globally aware, and downright unique story I’d like to see more often."
- Charles Packer at Sci-Fi site says When We Have Time is "one of the gems of the anthology."
- Rich Horton in Locus says Lifebuoy is "my favorite story" in the Winter On Spec, saying it "has a pretty neat central idea."
- Storyteller magazine says Closing Time "may be the best and most charming ghost story I have ever read, but don't read it if you're on a diet."
- SciFi.com calls Closing Time "a remarkable fantasy ghost tale... the story shows both a light, charming sense of humor and a deeper understanding of tradition and its role in family relationships."
- The Harrow calls Closing Time "a charming tale."
- The SF Site describes Closing Time as "a beautiful and funny little Borgian fantasy."
- Tangent says Lifebuoy is "an interesting idea... the characterization is crisp and realistic."
- BestSF says Public Safety is "a story that keeps you off balance... One to re-read after finishing it."
- Nick Givers in Locus makes Public Safety one of February's Recommended Stories, calling it "a sardonic counterfactual."
- Rich Horton in Locus makes Public Safety one of February's Recommended Stories, calling it "a fascinating and original alternate history... very nice."
- Tangent says Heroic Measures is "a heartfelt tale that leaves you saddened. All-in-all a good read."
- Rich Horton in Locus makes Heroic Measures one of December's Recommended Stories, calling it "a very moving story... wholly believable."
- Rich Horton in Locus says "Johnson distinguishes himself again with 'Outside Chance.'"
- Ticonderoga Online describes Irregular Verbs as "a wonderful and simple story of loss."
- Tangent says Outside Chance is "one of the best stories I've seen in a while."
- Rich Horton in Locus makes Irregular Verbs one of September's Recommended Stories, calling it "both moving and clever."
- Tangent says Irregular Verbs is "a strong, moving story."
- Reflection's Edge says The Dragon's Lesson is "worth Bedlam's cover price alone."
- BestSF says Closing Time is "very good indeed."
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