Novelist Bob Shaw

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Bob Shaw

Living place: Northern Ireland

Birthday: 31-12-1931 (93 years old)

Global rank: #90599

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Who is Novelist Bob Shaw?
Remembered for his science fiction Hugo Award nominations for his fictional works The Ragged Astronaut (a 1987 novel) and "The Light of Another Day" (short story 1966), he is also well known for his stories for many Irish sci-fi fanzines and for the two of you Best Fan Writer Hugo Awards.
In addition to his career as a writer, he worked as a Belfast Telegraph science reporter and an aircraft engineer and design.

Young / Before famous

He encountered his first science fiction short story, a work by AE van Vogt, when he was eleven years old and was profoundly influenced by this early experience. He went on to study at Belfast University of Technology and later joined a fan group of Irish fiction.

Family life info

The son of a police officer, he grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland with two younger brothers. In his first marriage, to Sadie Gourley, he had three children and lived temporarily in Canada. He later married an American woman named Nancy Tucker and lived in the United States and Great Britain.

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He was born in the same year as fellow science fiction writer Gene Wolfe.

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When was Novelist Bob Shaw born?
Bob Shaw birthday 31-12-1931 (at the age of 93).
Where is Novelist Bob Shaw's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Bob Shaw was born in . Là Novelist, whose Zodiac is Capricorn, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. Bob Shaw's global rank is 90599 and whose rank is 1155 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1931 and 31-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Bob Shaw

  • Spain becomes a republic with the overthrow of King Alfonso XIII.
  • British parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, legalizing dominion equality with Britain.
  • Mukden Incident begins Japanese occupation of Manchuria.
  • The planned capital of New Delhi opens in India.

Birthday Bob Shaw (31-12) in history

  • Day 31-12 year 1879: Thomas Edison gave the first public demonstration of an electric incandescent lamp.
  • Day 31-12 year 1938: The first breath test for drivers, "drunkometer," was introduced in Indianapolis.
  • Day 31-12 year 1946: President Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.
  • Day 31-12 year 1961: The Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than $12 billion in foreign aid.
  • Day 31-12 year 1963: Central African Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was formally dissolved.
  • Day 31-12 year 1964: The al-Fatah guerrillas of Yasser Arafat launched their first terrorist raid on Israel.
  • Day 31-12 year 1987: Robert Mugabe sworn in as Zimbabwe's president.
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