His shorter fiction has been collected in Voyages by Starlight, Breathmoss and Other Exhalations, Past Magic, Journeys, and the Frost on Glass. MacLeod won the World Fantasy Award again in for his 2000 novelette “The Chop Girl”. This novel version also won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Long Form, thus becoming the only story to win the same award twice in two differing formats, novel and novella. The story is told by Griffin Brooke, a closeted homosexual who mourns the loss of the country he once knew. It was written as a novel, which however could not sell MacLeod published the cut version, with the full-length version only being published in a limited edition in 2005. Ian MacLeod, writes a haunting novel of an alternate Britain that went fascist following it's defeat in the First World War. The narrator is a closeted homosexual Oxford historian who had known the leader in youth. It is an alternate history where Britain, having been defeated in the World War I, develops its own form of fascism in 1930s. MacLeod’s novella “The Summer Isles” (Asimov’s Science Fiction October/November 1998) won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Short Form and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. He studied law and worked as a civil servant before going freelance in early 1990s soon after he started publishing stories, attracting critical praise and awards nominations. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ian R. MacLeod is one of the richest Writer & listed on most popular Writer.
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