His books, short fiction, and an anthology of original SF by Canadians have won fourteen awards. The Child Garden won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Air won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, the Sunburst Award, and the British Science Fiction Association Award. His first story about Cambodia, “The Unconquered Country” (1985), won the World Fantasy Award and the BSFA Award. The book version was a finalist for a Nebula. The country continues to feature in his fiction, including his latest novel, The King’s Last Song, which intertwines a historical fiction about the Angkor Wat era’s greatest king with recent Cambodian history. In Cambodia people are used to ghosts. Ghosts buy newspapers. They own property. A few years ago, spirits owned a house in Phnom Penh, at the Tra Bek end of Monivong Boulevard. Khmer Rouge had murdered the whole family and there was no one left alive to inherit it. People cycled past the building, leaving it boarded up.
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