David Walton

David Walton (born October 26, 1975) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer living in Philadelphia. His novel Terminal Mind won the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award for the best paperback science fiction novel published in the United States, in a tie with Adam-Troy Castro's novel Emissaries from the Dead.

Career After years of short story writing, Walton published his award-winning novel Terminal Mind in 2008, followed by Quintessence and its sequel Quintessence Sky in 2013 and Superposition and its sequel Supersymmetry in 2015. The rights to a TV adaptation of the Superposition series was sold in late 2015.

Awards 2018 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel - for "The Genius Plague" 2009 Philip K. Dick Award (tie) - for best original paperback of the year "Terminal Mind" 2008 Jim Baen Memorial Award - for short story "Letting Go"