Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of more than 50 books. His science fiction novel The Dreaming Dragons introduced the trope of the generation time machine, his The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the technological Singularity in detail. Broderick holds a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from Deakin University, Australia, with a dissertation relating to the comparative semiotics of scientific, literary, and science fictional textuality. He was for several years a Senior Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Broderick lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, tax attorney Barbara Lamar. He was the founding science fiction editor of the Australian popular-science magazine Cosmos from mid-2005 to December 2010. [More at Wikipedia]

April 22nd, 1944 in Melbourne (Age 80)