David Walton (born October 26, 1975) is an American
science fiction and
fantasy writer living in Philadelphia. His novel Terminal Mind won the 2008
Philip K. Dick Award for the best paperback science fiction novel published in the United States, in a tie with
Adam-Troy Castro's novel Emissaries from the Dead.
Career
After years of short story writing, Walton published his award-winning novel Terminal Mind in 2008, followed by Quintessence and its sequel Quintessence Sky in 2013 and Superposition and its sequel Supersymmetry in 2015. The rights to a TV adaptation of the Superposition series was sold in late 2015.
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References
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"John W. Campbell Memorial Award". Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. Archived from
the original on 29 December 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
^"Philip K. Dick Award 2009". Science Fiction Awards Database. Mark R. Kelly and the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
^"Castro and Walton Win 2009 Philip K. Dick Award", Locus, May 2009.