Author Info: Derryl Murphy (Patreon)

Much of "Unquiet Sky" is based on actual events that happened to Derryl Murphy's grandmother and great-aunt (later also his grandmother, a story for another day) when they were children in Northern Alberta just after the Spanish flu epidemic. The only parts not true are the parts Derryl made up, and he will leave it to the discerning reader to figure out on their own what parts those are.

Derryl is the author of the math-as-magic novel Napier's Bones, the environmental SF collection Wasps at the Speed of Sound, another collection, Over the Darkened Landscape, and, with William Shunn, the novella Cast a Cold Eye (now available here, as its run from PS Publishing sold out some time ago: https://www.shunn.net/cast.html).
"Unquiet Sky" is the sixth story of his unofficial Magic Canada series, in which he takes actual or apocryphal events from Canadian history and gives them a bit of a wobble.

Derryl has not won a number of Aurora Awards and also not won one Sunburst. He and his wife live in Saskatoon, sometimes with an adult son who is usually away at school, and not anymore with the other adult son who landed softly and quickly learned to fly after being kicked out of the nest.