Dirk Strasser
‘Conquist’ was first published as a short story in the HarperVoyager anthology, Dreaming Again. The Nebula Award-winning author and editor, Jack Dann, said in the introduction to Dirk’s Stories of the Sand collection: ‘You have the proof right in your hands, this man can write!… Strasser is a master… enjoy and behold what the fuss is all about.’ The serialised version of Conquist was a finalist in the Aurealis Awards Best Fantasy Novel category. Dirk’s screenplay version of Conquist won the Wildsound Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival Best Scene Reading Award and was a featured finalist in the Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival and the Creative World Awards . His fantasy trilogy The Books of Ascension (Zenith, Equinox and Eclipse) was published in German (Heyne Verlag) and English (Pan Macmillan), and his short stories have been translated into several European languages. ‘The Doppelgänger Effect’ appeared in the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology, Dreaming Down Under (Tor). Dirk was born in Germany but has lived most of his life in Australia. He works in educational publishing, has trekked the Inca trail to Machu Picchu and studied Renaissance history.
