Michael Flynn (writer)

Michael Francis Flynn (born 1947) is an American science fiction author.
Nearly all of Flynn's work falls under the category of hard science fiction, although his treatment of it can be unusual since he has applied the rigor of hard science fiction to "softer" sciences such as sociology in works such as "In the Country of the Blind". Much of his short fiction has appeared in "Analog Science Fiction and Fact".
Biography.
Flynn was born in Easton, Pennsylvania. He earned a B.A. in Mathematics from La Salle University and an M.S. in topology from Marquette University.
He has been employed as an industrial quality engineer and statistician.
Awards.
Flynn has been nominated for Hugo Awards seven times:
Flynn has twice won the Prometheus Award, first for his novel "In the Country of the Blind", and then for the novel "Fallen Angels", co-written with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, which also won the Seiun Award.
The story "House of Dreams" won a Theodore Sturgeon Award in 1998.
His story "Quaetiones Super Caelo et Mundo" tied with Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "Recovering Apollo 8" for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2007.
Michael Flynn was the first author winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Medal. 