Trenholm, Hayden
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(circa 1955- ) Canadian teacher, publisher, playwright and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Red Tide" (in Tesseracts6, anth 1997, edited by Carolyn Clink and Robert J Sawyer); he won Aurora Awards (see Awards) for "Like Water in the Desert" (August 2007 Challenging Destiny) and for "The Burden of Fire" (June 2010 Neo-Opsus Science Fiction Magazine). His first novel, the Near Future A Circle of Birds (1993 chap), is a meditation on loss and Amnesia set just as the new century is about to begin. The Steele Chronicles sequence of Cyberpunk Near Future detections set in Calgary, beginning with Defining Diana (2008), focuses on Cyborg-human functions and dysfunctions, with stresses increased by Genetic Engineering (and the series protagonist's alcoholism). A noir bleakness, not unrealistically, suffuses Calgary throughout. [JC]
Hayden Trenholm
born circa 1955
works
series
Steele Chronicles
- Defining Diana (Prince George, British Columbia: Bundoran Press, 2008) [Steele Chronicles: pb/]
- Steel Whispers (Ottawa, Ontario: Bundoran Press, 2009) [Steele Chronicles: pb/Dan O'Driscoll]
- Stealing Home (Ottawa, Ontario: Bundoran Press, 2010) [Steele Chronicles: pb/]
individual titles
- A Circle of Birds (Anvil Press, 1993) [chap: pb/]
works as editor
- Strange Bedfellows: An Anthology of Political Science Fiction (Ottawa, Ontario: Bundoran Press, 2014) [anth: pb/Dan O'Driscoll]
nonfiction works as editor
- Blood & Water: Resource Wars of the Near Future (Ottawa, Ontario: Bundoran Press, 2013) [nonfiction: anth: pb/]
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