WEINER, Andrew (Simon)

(1949-)

   Canadian writer who began publishing sf with "Empire of the Sun" in Again, Dangerous Visions (anth 1972) ed Harlan ELLISON, but who became active only in the early 1980s, with 30 stories released in that decade. About half of his work was assembled in Distant Signals, and Other Stories(coll 1989); "Distant Signals" (1984 Twilight Zone) was televised in the Tales from the Darkside series. Station Gehenna (fixup 1987 US) intriguingly confronts its protagonist - sent to Gehenna to investigate a mystery involving the station crew and the partially terraformed planet-with an ALIEN enigma, a possible murder, and much material for thought. Craftsmanlike and quietly substantial, AW has yet to gain an appropriate reputation.

   JC

   See also: CANADA; TERRAFORMING.