Nick Mamatas
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Nick Mamatas is an American author and editor best known for his horror and dark fiction, though his initial work was in the field of radical political non-fiction. He has been an editor for Prime Books, for whom he co-edited Clarkesworld Magazine, with Sean Wallace, from 2006 - 2008. He has edited fiction and non-fiction for manga publisher VIZ Media since August of 2008, working primarily on Haikasoru, the firm's line of Japanese science fiction, fantasy, and horror in translation. He lives in California.
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Books edited
- Michael Zezima, Saving Private Power: The Hidden History of the "Good War" (Soft Skull, June 2000)
- Stan Goff, Hideous Dream: A Soldier's Memoir of the U.S. Invasion of Haiti (Soft Skull, October 2000)
- Michael Hemmingson, What The Fuck? The Avant-Porn Anthology (Soft Skull, November 2000)
- A.D. Nauman, Scorch: A Novel (Soft Skull, May 2001)
- Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins, Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital (Soft Skull, March 2001)
- Daphne Gottlieb, Why Things Burn: Poems (Soft Skull, May 2001)
- William Blum, West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Political Memoir (Soft Skull, October 2001)
- Eddie Yuen, Daniel Burton Rose, and George Katsiaficas, The Battle of Seattle: The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization (Soft Skull, February 2002)
- Genesis P-Orridge, Painful but Fabulous: The Life and Art of Genesis P-Orridge (Soft Skull, January 2003)
- Stan Goff, Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century (Soft Skull, August 2003)
- dgk Goldberg, Queen of the Country (Prime, Jan 2008)
- Hiroshi Sakurazaka, All You Need is KILL (Haikasoru, July 2009)
- Issui Ogawa, The Lord of the Sands of Time (Haikasoru, July 2009)
- Hayao Miyazaki, Starting Point: 1979-1996 (VIZ Media, August 2009)
- Hayao Miyazaki, The Art of Ponyo (VIZ Media, August 2009)
- Housuke Nojiri, Usurper of the Sun (Haikasoru, October 2009)
- M, Death Note: L, Change the WorLd (VIZ Media, October 2009)
- Koushun Takami, Battle Royale: The Novel (Haikasoru, November 2009)
- Miyuki Miyabe, The Book of Heroes (Haikasoru, January 2010)
Magazines edited
- Phantom #0 (Prime, November 2005)
- Clarkesworld Magazine, with Sean Wallace (Prime, Aug 2006 - Aug 2008)
Anthologies
- The Urban Bizarre (Prime Books, 2004)
- Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine, with Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace (Wyrm Publishing, July 2008)
- Spicy Slipstream Stories, with Jay Lake (Lethe Press, September 20, 2008)
- Realms 2: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine, with Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace (Wyrm Publishing, March 2010)
- Haunted Legends, with Ellen Datlow (Tor Books, September 2010)
Awards
- 2008, Clarkesworld was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
- 2008, Mamatas, co-editor Sean Wallace and publisher Neil Clarke were nominated for the World Fantasy award for Clarkesworld in the nonprofessional special award category
