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Down These Strange Streets
''Down These Strange Streets'' is an urban fantasy anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois and released on October 4, 2011. Contents * “The Bastard Stepchild” (Introduction) by George R. R. Martin * “Death by Dahlia” by Charlaine Harris * “The Bleeding Shadow” by Joe R. Lansdale * “Hungry Heart” by Simon R. Green * “Styx and Stones” by Steven Saylor *“Pain and Suffering” by S. M. Stirling *“It’s Still the Same Old Story” by Carrie Vaughn * “The Lady Is a Screamer” by Conn Iggulden * “Hellbender" by Laurie R. King *“Shadow Thieves” by Glen Cook *“No Mystery, No Miracle” by Melinda Snodgrass *“The Difference Between a Puzzle and a Mystery” by M. L. N. Hanover * “The Curious Affair of the Deodand” by Lisa Tuttle * ''Lord John and the Plague of Zombies'' by Diana Gabaldon (novella) * “Beware the Snake” by John Maddox Roberts * “In Red, With Pearls” by Patricia Briggs * “The Adakian Eagle” by Bradle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George R
George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States * George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States * George V, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1910-1936 * George VI, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1936-1952 * Prince George of Wales * George Papagheorghe also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George Harrison, an English musician and singer-songwriter Places South Africa * George, Western Cape ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa * George, Missouri * George, Washington * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Characters * George (Peppa Pig), a 2-year-old pig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Cook
Glen Charles Cook (born July 9, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, known for ''The Black Company'' and ''Garrett P.I.'' fantasy series. Biography Cook was born in New York City."Glen Cook – Summary Bibliography" . Retrieved August 2, 2014. Cook served in the United States Navy from 1962 to 1972 and specifically was attached, for a time, to a Marine Force Recon unit, the 3rd Marine Battalion. During his time attached to the Force Recon Unit, Cook participated in what he called "practice combat", and left active duty, "a month before shipped out to Viet Nam". He later w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Anthologies
Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number), the natural number following 10 and preceding 12 * one of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011, or any year ending in 11 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *''Eleven'', a 1970 collection of short stories by Patricia Highsmith *''Eleven'', a 2004 children's novel in The Winnie Years by Lauren Myracle *''Eleven'', a 2008 children's novel by Patricia Reilly Giff *''Eleven'', a short story by Sandra Cisneros Music *Eleven (band), an American rock band * Eleven: A Music Company, an Australian record label *Up to eleven, an idiom from popular culture, coined in the movie ''This Is Spinal Tap'' Albums * ''11'' (The Smithereens album), 1989 * ''11'' (Ua album), 1996 * ''11'' (Bryan Adams album), 2008 * ''11'' (Sault album), 2022 * ''Eleven'' (Harry Connick, Jr. album), 1992 * ''Eleven'' (22-Pistepirkko album), 1998 * ''Eleven'' (Sugarcult album), 1999 * ''Eleven'' (B'z album), 2000 * ''Eleven'' (Reamonn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SF Signal
''SF Signal'' was a science fiction blog and fanzine published from 2003 to 2016. The site was launched by John DeNardo and JP Frantz and focused on writings, events, and other topics focusing on the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and other related genres. It hosted three podcasts, one of which won the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Fancast. The site itself won two Hugo Awards for Best Fanzine, 2012 and 2013. History The website was launched in 2003 by John DeNardo and JP Frantz after they noticed a lack of blogs focusing on science fiction. They decided to launch a blog where they could discuss science fiction and related genre writings, events and ideas that were interesting to them. As the website's popularity grew, they began to incorporate more original content and hired additional staff members as well as brought in new contributors. ''SF Signal'' published three podcasts: ''SF Crossing the Gulf'', ''The Three Hoarsemen'', and ''The SF Signal Podcast''. In 2012 ''SF Signa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradley Denton
Bradley Clayton Denton (born 1958) is an American science fiction author. He has also written other types of fiction, such as the black comedy of his novel ''Blackburn'', about a sympathetic serial killer. He was born in Towanda, Kansas, and attended the University of Kansas at Lawrence and graduated with degrees in astronomy (B.A.) and English (M.A.). His first published work was the short story "The Music of the Spheres", published in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' in March 1984. His collection ''The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist'' won the 1995 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection. He and his wife Barbara moved from Kansas to Austin, Texas in 1988. Books *''Sergeant Chip & Other Novellas'' (collection, 2014) *''Laughin' Boy'' (novel, 2005) *''One Day Closer to Death: Eight Stabs at Immortality'' (collection, 1998); all but one of the stories in here appeared in either ''The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians'' or ''A Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Briggs
Patricia Briggs (born 1965) is an American writer of Fantasy novel, fantasy since 1993, and author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. Biography Patricia Briggs was born in 1965 in Butte, Montana, United States. She now resides in Benton City, WA Briggs began writing in 1990 and published her first novel ''Masques'' in 1993. She wrote primarily in the fantasy genre until her editor asked her to write an urban fantasy, since the genre was showing promising growth. Briggs wrote ''Moon Called'', which was published in 2006 and made it to the ''USA Today'' bestseller lists. The second book in the series, ''Blood Bound'', hit The New York Times Best Seller list, ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. The third book, ''Iron Kissed'', was a number one ''New York Times'' bestseller and subsequent novels have continued to perform similarly in sales. Published works Sianim series #''Masques'' (1993) also in Shifter's Wolf #''Wolfsbane'' (2010) also in Shifter's Wolf #''Steal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Maddox Roberts
John Maddox Roberts is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction including the ''SPQR'' series and '' Hannibal's Children''. Personal life John Maddox Roberts was born in Ohio and was raised in Texas, California, and New Mexico. He has lived in various places in the United States as well as in Scotland, England and Mexico. He was kicked out of college in 1967 and joined the Army. He was in the US Army 1967–70, and did a tour in Vietnam. After he returned, he became a Green Beret. He lives with his wife in Estancia, New Mexico. Career Upon his return to civilian life, Roberts decided to be a writer and sold his first book to Doubleday in 1975; his book was published in 1977 as ''The Strayed Sheep of Charum''. His earlier books were in the science fiction, fantasy and historical genres. In 1989, Roberts published his first historical mystery, ''The King's Gambit'', set in ancient Rome. The book was nominated for the Edgar Award as best mystery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Gabaldon
Diana J. Gabaldon (; born January 11, 1952) is an American author, known for the ''Outlander'' series of novels. Her books merge multiple genres, featuring elements of historical fiction, romance, mystery, adventure and science fiction/fantasy. A television adaptation of the ''Outlander'' novels premiered on Starz in 2014. Early life and education Gabaldon was born on January 11, 1952, in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States, the daughter of Jacqueline Sykes and Tony Gabaldon (1931–1998), an Arizona state senator from Flagstaff for sixteen years and later a supervisor of Coconino County. Her father was of Mexican ancestry, and her mother was of English descent. Gabaldon grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona. She earned a bachelor of science in zoology from Northern Arizona University, 1970–1973; a master of science in marine biology from the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1973–1975; and a PhD in behavioral ecology from Northern Arizona Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord John And The Plague Of Zombies
The ''Lord John'' series is a sequence of historical mystery novels and shorter works written by Diana Gabaldon that center on Lord John Grey, a recurring secondary character in the author's ''Outlander'' series. Secretly homosexual "in a time when that particular predilection could get one hanged," the character has been called "one of the most complex and interesting" of the hundreds of characters in Gabaldon's ''Outlander'' novels. Starting with the 1998 novella ''Lord John and the Hellfire Club'', the ''Lord John'' spin-off series currently consists of six novellas and three novels. Origins Gabaldon introduced Grey in the second ''Outlander'' novel ''Dragonfly in Amber'' (1992) as a sixteen-year-old English soldier who chances upon Jamie and Claire Fraser on the eve of the Battle of Prestonpans. The character returns, as an adult, in ''Voyager'' (1993) and '' Drums of Autumn'' (1996). When Gabaldon was invited to write a short story for the 1998 British anthology '' Past ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Tuttle
Lisa Gracia Tuttle (born September 16, 1952) is an American-born science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. She has published more than a dozen novels, seven short story collections, and several non-fiction titles, including a reference book on feminism, ''Encyclopedia of Feminism'' (1986). She has also edited several anthologies and reviewed books for various publications. She has been living in the United Kingdom since 1981. Tuttle won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1974, received the 1982 Nebula Award for Best Short Story for " The Bone Flute", which she refused, and the 1989 BSFA Award for Short Fiction for "In Translation". Writing career Lisa Tuttle began writing when she attended The Kinkaid School in Piney Point Village, Texas. At the Mirabeau B. Lamar Senior High School in Houston she was active in science fiction fandom, and founded and edited the Houston Science Fiction Society's fanzine, ''Mathom''. At Syracuse University in New York, she wrot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Abraham (author)
Daniel James Abraham (born November 14, 1969), pen names M. L. N. Hanover and James S. A. Corey, is an American novelist, comic book writer, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known as the author of ''The Long Price Quartet'' and '' The Dagger and the Coin'' fantasy series, and with Ty Franck, as the co-author of ''The Expanse'' science fiction series, written under the joint pseudonym James S. A. Corey. The series has been adapted into the television series ''The Expanse'' (2015–2022), with both Abraham and Franck serving as writers and producers on the show. He also contributed to Wildcards anthology series shared universe. Under the pseudonym M. L. N. Hanover, Abraham is the author of the ''Black Sun's Daughter'' urban fantasy series. With Franck, he wrote the '' Star Wars'' novel ''Honor Among Thieves'' (2014), again as James S. A. Corey. Abraham collaborated with George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois to write the science fiction novel '' Hunter's Run'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melinda Snodgrass
Melinda M. Snodgrass is a science fiction writer for print and television. In February 2021 Melinda was the Screenwriting Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker at the 39th annual Life, the Universe, & Everything professional science fiction and fantasy arts symposium. Life Snodgrass lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In her spare time she is an equestrian who competes in dressage competition. Snodgrass holds a degree in History from the University of New Mexico, as well as a law degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Her experience as a lawyer informed the Linnet Ellery series she published under the pen name Phillipa Bornikova (''This Case Is Gonna Kill Me'', 2012; ''Box Office Poison'', 2013; ''Publish and Perish'', 2018, all by Tor Books). Career Snodgrass wrote several episodes of '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' while serving as the series' story editor during its second and third seasons. She has also contributed produced scripts for the series ''Odysse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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