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Simon Petrie

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born

New Zealand

gender

male

website

http://simonpetrie.wordpress.com/

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Humor, Short Stories

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Tove Jansson, Iain M. Banks, P.G. Wodehouse, Douglas Adams, Ursula K....more

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January 2010

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Born on the South Island of New Zealand and now living on the North Island of Australia, Simon Petrie is a Canberra-based research scientist and writer of speculative fiction (SF, fantasy, and occasionally horror). Since 2007, his stories have appeared in various magazines, webzines and anthologies. His first collection of short fiction, Rare Unsigned Copy: tales of Rocketry, Ineptitude, and Giant Mutant Vegetables (Peggy Bright Books) published in March 2010, was shortlisted for a Sir Julius Vogel award in the Best Collection category.

Simon is an active member of the Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-operative, the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild, and the SpecFicNZ core collective. He has served on three different judging panels for the...more

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Average rating: 4.24 · 116 ratings · 50 reviews · 13 distinct works · Similar authors

	Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (Issue 54) by Simon Petrie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anatoly Belilovsky (Goodreads Author), Sue Burszytnski 4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flight 404 / The Hunt for Red Leicester by Simon Petrie (Goodreads Author), Edwina Harvey (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rare Unsigned Copy: Tales of Rocketry, Ineptitude, and Giant Mutant Vegetables by Simon Petrie (Goodreads Author), Edwina Harvey (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Next by Simon Petrie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Porteous (Editor) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales for Canterbury: Survival, Hope, Future by J.C. Hart (Goodreads Author) (editor), Anna Caro (Goodreads Author) (editor), Simon Petrie (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Foreign Country: New Zealand Speculative Fiction by Anna Caro (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Juliet Buchanan (Editor), Ripley Patton (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.54 of 5 stars 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Light Touch Paper Stand Clear by Edwina Harvey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Simon Petrie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dave Luckett (Contributor) 4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Destination: Future by Elizabeth Bear (Goodreads Author), Eric T. Reynolds (Editor), Sherry D. Ramsey (Goodreads Author) 4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Eclectic Slice of Life: Intriguing works of prose and poetry by Craig Bezant (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Myra King (Contributor), Alice Godwin (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Belong: Interstellar Immigration Stories by Russell B. Farr (Editor), Penelope Love, George Ivanoff (Goodreads Author) 4.8 of 5 stars 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Simon Petrie liked Darusha Wehm's review of Rare Unsigned Copy: Tales of Rocketry, Ineptitude, and Giant Mutant Vegetables: " This collection has a little bit of everything, but if you can't stand stories that exist solely as the set up to a (usually quite clever) pun, it may not be for you. Simon's humour is on wide display in many of these stories and I found myself gr... " Read more of this review »
May 05, 2013 03:10pm · see review
Simon Petrie liked Chris's review of Rare Unsigned Copy: Tales of Rocketry, Ineptitude, and Giant Mutant Vegetables: " These are like Asimov stories. Very well-done Asimov stories. Remember those short short stories Asimov used to write that were the set up for some atrocious pun? There are plenty of those here. And the mystery stories he wrote where Dr Urth had t... " Read more of this review »
May 05, 2013 03:10pm · see review
Simon Petrie liked Tim's review of Tales for Canterbury: Survival, Hope, Future: " My review is now online at[return][return]http://timjonesbooks.blogspot.com/201... "
Apr 08, 2013 03:56pm · see review
Simon Petrie made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Disambiguation topic "Emy wrote: "Working on #5 done. Thanks for the bio! :)" Thanks Emy! Simon"
Mar 22, 2013 02:57am
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Simon Petrie said "yes" to attending 'Flight 404' Kindle Select giveaway date: March 02, 2013 08:00AM location: Kindle Store, The United States description: My deep-space SF/mystery novella, 'Flight 404' is available for free download from the Kindle Store, for three days only (March 2nd to 4th, Pacific time).
Mar 01, 2013 03:30am · like
Simon Petrie is now a fan of Goodreads Author Edwina Harvey
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Simon Petrie rated a book 4 of 5 stars Self Made (Andersson Dexter, #1) by M. Darusha Wehm (Goodreads Author) read in July, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
'Self Made' is the first of Wehm's 'Andersson Dexter' SF detective novels. It's a well-constructed and engaging story that reads like an equal-opportunity, cyberpunkish version of Asimov's 'The Caves of Steel' ... if that sounds like it might be your...more
Jul 23, 2012 01:48am · see review
Simon Petrie voted on a poll Which of the following is your favorite J.R.R. Tolkien novel? J.R.R. Tolkien He voted for: The Hobbit
Jul 21, 2012 07:56pm · like · take the poll
Simon Petrie made a comment in the group Q&A with Patty Jansen — What are you writing? topic "Trying to finish any of a half-dozen half-written short stories--a new Gordon Mamon murder-mystery-with-puns, dinosaur racing in outback Queensland, a...more "
Oct 21, 2011 08:32pm