Damien Broderick

Damien Broderick
Born(1944-04-22)22 April 1944
Reservoir, Victoria, Australia
Died19 April 2025(2025-04-19) (aged 80)
Castelo Branco, Portugal
OccupationWriter and editor
NationalityAustralian
GenreScience fiction, popular science
Notable works

Damien Francis Broderick (22 April 1944 – 19 April 2025) was an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 74 books. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction credits him with the first usage of the term virtual reality in science fiction, in his 1982 novel The Judas Mandala.