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William Shunn was born in Los Angeles in 1967 and raised in Utah in a devout Mormon household. As the eldest of eight children, he was expected to serve a two-year mission for the LDS Church at the age of 19. He was sent to work as a missionary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, but after six months was convicted of mischief and expelled from the country. (The complete story is told in his memoir The Accidental Terrorist, currently available as a serialized podcast.)

Shunn graduated from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1991 with a degree in computer science. Shortly thereafter his short fiction began appearing in the premier science fiction magazines. Since 1993, his stories have appeared in Salon, Asimov's Science Fiction, The Magazi...more


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The Accidental Terrorist: My Adventures as a Foot Soldier in the Mormon Army (Nonfiction)
2 chapters   —   updated Mar 29, 2010 04:35pm
Description: A memoir of my time as a youthful Mormon missionary, culminating with my felony conviction and expulsion from Canada. Available in full as a <a href="http://www.shunn.net/memoir/">serialized podcast</a>.
Inclination (Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy)
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Description: Jude Plane is a teenage boy who lives in a cloistered religious enclave on a giant space station. Jude's faith forbids him from using advanced technology, but that resolve is put to the test when his father sends him to work outside the enclave, unloading freight at the station's hub. There Jude makes friends stranger than any he's known, and finds himself confronted by choices he couldn't have imagined just days earlier, including whether to embrace his new life or his old. The original novella was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon awards in 2007.

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