The Battle Royale Slam Book by Nick Mamatas

Clarkesworld's 2008 issues earned it a nomination for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. In August 2006, Mamatas was named co-fiction editor of Clarkesworld Magazine. The German edition was nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for science fiction originally published in a foreign language. His science fiction satire Under My Roof (Soft Skull, 2007) has been published in both Germany and Italy in addition to its American publication. In early 2007 he decided to distribute it online for free under a Creative Commons license. In 2006, Move Under Ground was one of the first books to be published in paperback by the German publisher Edition Phantasia. This novel was nominated for both the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel in 2005, and made the Locus magazine recommended reading list for books published in 2004. His first full-length novel, Move Under Ground (Night Shade Books, 2004/Prime Books, 2006), combined the Beat style of Jack Kerouac with the cosmic horror of H. In 2007, a signed/limited hardcover edition, illustrated and with a slipcase, was published in German by Edition Phantasia.

His first published fiction book was the 2001 novella Northern Gothic (Soft Skull), which was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction in 2002. His non-fiction work has appeared in Razor Magazine, The Village Voice, and various disinformation books and BenBella Books' Smart Pop Books anthologies. During his early writing career he wrote not just non-fiction, but also worked as a ghostwriter for college students needing term papers, an experience he later described in an essay called 'The Term Paper Artist'. He is also a graduate of the MFA program in creative and professional writing at Western Connecticut State University, which he attended only after publishing a number of books, short stories, and articles. Nick Mamatas was born on Long Island, New York and attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook and New School University.

The Battle Royale Slam Book by Nick Mamatas