# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/damien-broderick
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:33:42.293Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/damien-broderick"
name: "Damien Broderick"
slug: "damien-broderick"
description: "Damien Francis Broderick was an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 74 books. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction credits him with the first usage of the term virtual reality in science fiction, in his 1982 novel The Judas Mandala."
tagline: "Australian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Damien_Francis_Broderick.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-04-22"
deathDate: "2025-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.012528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Дем'єн Бродерік"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "داميان برودريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "دیمین برادریک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Broderick"
    title: "Damien Broderick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Broderick"
    title: "Damien Broderick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Broderick"
    title: "Damien Broderick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Broderick"
    title: "Damien Broderick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Broderick"
    title: "Damien Broderick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1158494"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump