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Derryl Murphy

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Outdoors & Nature, Arts & Photography

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March 2011

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Derryl Murphy lives with his wife, boys and dog in Saskatoon, where he is deeply involved in a life of soccer and writing. His short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies since his first sale in the early '90s. His first book, the collection of eco-SF Wasps at the Speed of Sound, was released by Prime Books in 2005, and in 2009 Cast a Cold Eye, a novella co-written with William Shunn, was released by PS Publishing.

Napier's Bones has just been nominated for Best Novel for the Aurora Award. For more information and for information on how to vote for Napier's Bones, please see http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/

Derryl has been nominated for the Canada's Aurora Award for an SF review column he wrote for The Edmonton Journal, for his sho...more

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Average rating: 3.59 · 129 ratings · 38 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Napier's Bones 3.37 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Wasps at the Speed of Sound 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Cast a Cold Eye by Derryl Murphy (Goodreads Author), William Shunn (Goodreads Author), Charles de Lint (Introduction) 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Wasps at the Speed of Sound and Other Shattered Futures 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Mythspring by Julie E. Czerneda (Goodreads Author) (editor / introduction), Tanya Huff (contributor), Alison Baird (contributor) 4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction by Nalo Hopkinson (Editor), Geoff Ryman (Editor), Jerome Stueart (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Tesseracts Twelve: New Novellas of Canadian Fantastic Fiction by Claude Lalumière (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brett Alexander Savory (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), E.L. Chen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

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Derryl Murphy is now friends with Nayad Monroe
May 16, 2012 06:45am
Derryl Murphy gave to: Hide Me Among the Graves by Tim Powers read in May, 2012	My rating:
While not necessary, I do think it's a good idea if you first read The Stress of Her Regard (one of my all-time favorite novels) as well as the story "A Journey of Only Two Paces" from the collection The Bible Repairman and Other Stories, which acts...more
May 15, 2012 09:57pm · see review
Derryl Murphy liked Liviu's review of Napier's Bones: " Napier's Bones is a very entertaining mix of sf and UF; the structure is all UF (evil being with superpowers, awakened in our day and time wants to take over and change all, good guys have to stop it but to start they are too puny, so there are ch... " Read more of this review »
May 15, 2012 08:15pm · see review
Derryl Murphy liked Shay's review of Napier's Bones: " Amazing world-building. Unobtrusively but uniquely Canadian. Would love to read more set in the same world. The only quibble I had was that I felt like I was reading it despite the characters rather than because of them. I wanted to know more abou... " Read more of this review »
May 15, 2012 08:14pm · see review
Derryl Murphy gave to: Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author) read in April, 2012	My rating:
I was not a kid who was hooked on Rinty, but was aware of him, of course. But what a marvelous surprise to find out just how he got into my brain, and to discover the incredibly dedicated and obsessive people who helped get him there. A great story,...more
May 08, 2012 01:18pm · see review
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Derryl Murphy gave to: Enter, Night by Michael Rowe read in February, 2012	My rating:
The only thing about this book that disappointed me was the ending, notes from another time that told us Who and Why and How. For me, it would have been better to leave questions unanswered, except for the answers supplied by my fevered imagination....more
Mar 28, 2012 03:30pm · see review
Derryl Murphy gave to: Among Others by Jo Walton (Goodreads Author) read in March, 2012	My rating:
Jo gives us someone who, for the longest time, seems like the ultimate in the Unreliable Narrator. Because this story is told in diary form, we have to take her word for it that everything pans out exactly as she says. But things are wrapped up nicel...more
Mar 28, 2012 03:17pm · see review
Derryl Murphy gave to: Arctic Rising by Tobias S. Buckell (Goodreads Author) read in February, 2012	My rating:
I came close to giving it four stars, but in the end a few moments of overwrought exposition pushed me back a shade. Call it 3.5 stars, even if Goodreads won't let me do the .5. That said, this is a fun and fine novel, with a story that carries the r...more
Feb 20, 2012 05:55pm · see review
Derryl Murphy gave to: Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis read in February, 2012	My rating:
Wade Davis has done a marvelous job bringing the reader back to a very different time, to men who carried themselves in a different fashion than they do today (in the end notes, when he quotes some of the climbers who find Mallory's body, this is mad...more
Feb 18, 2012 08:25pm · see review