Luminary: Damien Broderick

Novelist, futurist, and critical theorist, Damien Broderick is an honorary senior research Fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia and holds a multi-disciplinary PhD from Deakin University in the comparative semiotics of science and literature.

Author of Outside the Gates of Science: Why It's Time for the Paranormal to Come in from the Cold, Broderick has also written numerous award-winning science fiction novels.

Broderick has been awarded Literature Board Writing Fellowships by the Australian Council in 1980, 1984, 1990, and 1995, and writing grants from Deakin University in 1986 and Arts Victoria in 1998. He received the 1980 Ditmar Award for best Australian SF Novel; A 1985 Special Ditmar Award; the 1989 Ditmar Award; the 1998 Ditmar Award, and the 1998 Aurealis Award.

Broderick has published over 30 books and is also a prolific book reviewer.

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Damien Broderick teleseminar on "Outside the Gates of Science"

Damien Broderick | 10.03.07 |

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Australian novelist and futurist Damien Broderick joins Dean Radin in this fascinating discussion entitled “Outside the Gates of Science,” which explores why psi research is important and what the evolutionary function of psi might be. In the end, Broderick sees psi not as a strange mystical or spiritual phenomenon but a natural part of the way the brain and body work in the world.

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