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Nom canonique: Hood, Robert
Nom légal: Hood, Robert Maxwell
Autres noms: Hood, Rob
Date de naissance: 1951-07-24
Sexe: male
Nationalité: Australia
Lieu de naissance: Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Lieux de résidence: Camden, NSW, Australia
Wombara, NSW, Australia
Mangerton, NSW, Australia
Canberra, ACT, Australia
Études: Master of Arts (Honours) Macquarie University, 1970. Thesis analysed monster imagery in the works of William Blake.
Professions: cartoonist
writer (childrens' and adult books)
editor
Graphic Design & Editorial Officer for the Faculty of Business at the University of Wollongong
teacher
playwright
Relations: Sparks, Catriona (current partner)
Margi Curtis (first wife; divorced)
Deb Westbury (second wife; divorced)
Prix et distinctions: Hood is the recipient of the Ditmar Award on four occasions: For Collected Work: Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales (editor with Robin Pen) (2006) Fan Writer (2007): for film reviews published on his website Fan Writer (2009): for his blog Undead Backbrain Best Novel (2014): for Fragments of a Broken Land: Valarl Undead (Borgo/Wildside Press, 2014). He has also twice won The William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review: For review of The Weight of Water at Hood Reviews, posing the question "is this film a ghost story?") (2005 - Tie with Jason Nahrung) For "Divided Kingdom: King Kong vs Godzilla" (2006) Other awards include: The Australian Golden Dagger Award for Mystery Stories for short story "Dead End" (1988); Canberra Times National Short Story Competition with "Orientation" (1975)
Courte biographie: Robert Maxwell Hood (born 24 July 1951) is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers, although his work frequently crosses genre boundaries into science fiction, fantasy and crime. He has published five young adult novels, four collections of his short fiction, an adult epic fantasy novel, fifteen children's books and over 120 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas. He has also written plays, academic articles and poetry and co-edited anthologies of horror and crime. He has won seven Ditmars out of twenty nominations, and been nominated for six Aurealis Awards.

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Backstreets par Robert Hood

It only takes one moment for everything to change... Kel wakes up from a coma only to find his best friend Bryce dead. Backstreets explored the guilt and traunma of Kel by the loss of his best friend. To cure his guilt, Kel journeys into the dark backstreets of town in search of his dead friend Bryce and uncovers a whole new world. Kel still believes he's out there, lost and alone.

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TLHelen | Nov 6, 2012 |

Crosstown Traffic par Robert Hood

Love a quest and tracking down copies of these short story collections seems to have become one of my major quests. A lot of these go back to the days of Mean Streets Magazine, and there have always been a few that elluded me. Very happy dancing when I finally spied a copy in Kill City during a recent trip to Melbourne.

As per the blurb this is a cross genre set of stories, many of which take the reader off in most unexpected directions. Crime morphing into Western, Science Fiction, Fairy Tales and Fantasy shouldn't really be all that surprising if you think about it - the context of a story doesn't really matter, the quality of the story-telling is paramount. And the writers in this collection are some of our best genre writers, and it's a relief to know that many are still writing to this day.

Great fun - so pleased I tracked down a copy of this collection. Okay - now everyone else can get out their own their own quest (we're not going to be falling over each other looking for this book :) )… (plus d'informations)

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austcrimefiction | Oct 26, 2010 |

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