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Eric Choi was the first recipient of the Isaac Asimov Award (now the Dell Magazines Award) for his novelette “Dedication”, which was first published in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine and was reprinted in Japanese translation for The Astronaut From Wyoming and Other Stories (Hayakawa) edited by Toru Nakamura.  His other work has appeared in the anthologies Footprints (Hadley Rille), Northwest Passages (Windstorm), Space Inc. (DAW), Tales from the Wonder Zone (Fitzhenry & Whiteside), Northern Suns (Tor), Tesseracts6 (Edge) and Arrowdreams (Nuage) as well as Science Fiction Age magazine.  "Making Mars a Nicer Place to Live", a non-fiction essay that examines the science behind the terraforming of Mars as it is portrayed in science fiction, will appear in the forthcoming book Rocket Science (Mutation Press, 2012) edited by Ian Sales.  He was the co-editor, with Derwin Mak, of the Aurora Award winning anthology The Dragon and the Stars (DAW), the first collection of science fiction and fantasy stories written by authors of the Chinese diaspora.

An aerospace engineer by training, Eric has a bachelor’s degree in engineering science and a master’s degree in aerospace engineering, both from the University of Toronto, and an MBA from York University.  He has worked on a number of space missions including the Phoenix Mars Lander, the Canadarm2 on the International Space Station, the RADARSAT-1 Earth-observation satellite and the MOPITT instrument on the Terra satellite.  He is currently a business development manager at the Canadian space company COM DEV.