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Canonical name: Hood, Robert
Legal name: Hood, Robert Maxwell
Other names: Hood, Rob
Birthdate: 1951-07-24
Gender: male
Nationality: Australia
Birthplace: Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Places of residence: Camden, NSW, Australia
Wombara, NSW, Australia
Mangerton, NSW, Australia
Canberra, ACT, Australia
Education: Master of Arts (Honours) Macquarie University, 1970. Thesis analysed monster imagery in the works of William Blake.
Occupations: cartoonist
writer (childrens' and adult books)
editor
Graphic Design & Editorial Officer for the Faculty of Business at the University of Wollongong
teacher
playwright
Relationships: Sparks, Catriona (current partner)
Margi Curtis (first wife; divorced)
Deb Westbury (second wife; divorced)
Awards and honors: Hood is the recipient of the Ditmar Award on four occasions: For Collected Work: Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales (editor with Robin Pen) (2006) Fan Writer (2007): for film reviews published on his website Fan Writer (2009): for his blog Undead Backbrain Best Novel (2014): for Fragments of a Broken Land: Valarl Undead (Borgo/Wildside Press, 2014). He has also twice won The William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review: For review of The Weight of Water at Hood Reviews, posing the question "is this film a ghost story?") (2005 - Tie with Jason Nahrung) For "Divided Kingdom: King Kong vs Godzilla" (2006) Other awards include: The Australian Golden Dagger Award for Mystery Stories for short story "Dead End" (1988); Canberra Times National Short Story Competition with "Orientation" (1975)
Short biography: Robert Maxwell Hood (born 24 July 1951) is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers, although his work frequently crosses genre boundaries into science fiction, fantasy and crime. He has published five young adult novels, four collections of his short fiction, an adult epic fantasy novel, fifteen children's books and over 120 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas. He has also written plays, academic articles and poetry and co-edited anthologies of horror and crime. He has won seven Ditmars out of twenty nominations, and been nominated for six Aurealis Awards.

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Crosstown Traffic by Robert Hood

Love a quest and tracking down copies of these short story collections seems to have become one of my major quests. A lot of these go back to the days of Mean Streets Magazine, and there have always been a few that elluded me. Very happy dancing when I finally spied a copy in Kill City during a recent trip to Melbourne.

As per the blurb this is a cross genre set of stories, many of which take the reader off in most unexpected directions. Crime morphing into Western, Science Fiction, Fairy Tales and Fantasy shouldn't really be all that surprising if you think about it - the context of a story doesn't really matter, the quality of the story-telling is paramount. And the writers in this collection are some of our best genre writers, and it's a relief to know that many are still writing to this day.

Great fun - so pleased I tracked down a copy of this collection. Okay - now everyone else can get out their own their own quest (we're not going to be falling over each other looking for this book :) )… (more)

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