Canadian author Geoff Ryman is the author of ten books, including science fiction novels Air, Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter, The Child Garden, and The Warrior Who Carried Life, as well as of works based on his travels to Cambodia, such as The Unconquered Country, winner of the World Fantasy Award and British Science Fiction Association Award. His novel The King's Last Song (2006) was set both in the Angkor Wat era and the time after Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. His other mainstream fiction includes Was (1992), a novel about the American West viewed through the history of The Wizard of Oz which has been performed as a play and a musical in the US. His interactive web novel 253: a novel for the Internet in Seven Cars and a Crash, in which 253 people sit on a London tube and are each described in 253 words, won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award for best novel not published in hardback. The published Print Remix of the same novel (1998) is his most popular book. As well as being an author Geoff Ryman helped lead the UK government onto the web, starting a web design team at the Central Office of Information in 1994. He also led the teams that designed the first official British Monarchy and 10 Downing Street websites, and until recently worked on the UK government's flagship website www.direct.gov.uk. He is currently at work on a new historical novel set in the United States before the Civil War.