Terry Dowling

Terry Dowling
Dowling in 2007
Born (1947-03-21) 21 March 1947
Sydney, Australia
OccupationWriter, freelance journalist, critic, editor, game designer, reviewer
GenreScience fiction
Website
www.terrydowling.com

Terence William (Terry) Dowling (born 21 March 1947), is an Australian writer and journalist.

He is primarily a writer of speculative fiction but refers to himself as an "imagier" – one who imagines, a term which liberates his writing from the constraints of specific genres. He has been called "among the best-loved local writers and most-awarded in and out of Australia, a writer who stubbornly hews his own path (one mapped ahead, it is true, by Cordwainer Smith, J. G. Ballard and Jack Vance)."