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Green, a high-school English teacher in his native Toronto, had his first SF story, "Japanese Tea," published in the Australian anthology Alien Worlds in 1978. His first sale to the U.S. was "Till Death Do Us Part" in the December 1981 Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; he's had three other stories in that magazine since, plus three in Asimov's (including a collaboration with Andrew Weiner in the June 1988 issue). Green is a soft SF writer; his work is thoughtful, introspective, and character-driven, and most often explores family relationships.

Green's first novel, Barking Dogs (1988), expanding his brilliant short story of the same name from the May 1984 F&SF, was a tale of vigilantism and psychological breakdown in a future Toronto, in which perfect, portable lie detectors — barking dogs — change both interpersonal relationships and criminal justice. The 1992 Canadian anthology Ark of Ice contains a sequel novelette entitled "Blue Limbo."

Green's second novel, Children of the Rainbow (to date published only in Canada by McClelland & Stewart, 1992), displaced a variety of characters through time. Green combined the Mutiny on the Bounty story, the anti-nuclear protests of Greenpeace, and an Incan religious revival into a highly literate narrative full of wry commentaries on the present day.

Ten of his stories were collected in The Woman Who Is the Midnight Wind (1987) from Canada's Pottersfield Press. Notable stories include "Ashland, Kentucky" (first published in Asimov's, November 1985, and arguably Green's finest work), which tells of a son's search for his dying mother's brother who had disappeared decades ago; "Legacy" (reprinted from F&SF, March 1985), in which a murdered man's mind is kept alive long enough to identify his killer; and the original short version of "Barking Dogs."

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