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Forbidden Planets
{{infobox book , , name = Forbidden Planets , title_orig = , translator = , image = File:Forbidden Planets.jpg , caption = First edition , author = Edited by Peter Crowther , illustrator = , cover_artist = , country = United States , language = English , series = Peter Crowther DAW anthologies , genre = Science fiction anthology , publisher = DAW Books , release_date = 2006 , english_release_date = , media_type = Print (paperback) , pages = 307 , isbn = , preceded_by = Constellations , followed_by = We Think, Therefore We Are ''Forbidden Planets'' (2006) is a science fiction anthology of all-new short stories edited by British writer and journalist Peter Crowther, the fifth in his themed science fiction anthology series for DAW Books. The stories are all intended to be inspired by the 1956 movie, ''Forbidden Planet''. The book was published in 2006. The book inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
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Jay Lake
Joseph Edward "Jay" Lake, Jr. (June 6, 1964 – June 1, 2014) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. In 2003 he was a quarterly first-place winner in the Writers of the Future contest. In 2004 he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. He lived in Portland, Oregon, and worked as a product manager for a voice services company. Lake's writings appeared in numerous publications, including ''Postscripts'', ''Realms of Fantasy'', '' Interzone'', ''Strange Horizons'', ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', ''Nemonymous'', and the '' Mammoth Book of Best New Horror''. He was an editor for the "Polyphony" anthology series from Wheatland Press, and was also a contributor to ''The Internet Review of Science Fiction''. Personal life Lake was born in Taipei, Taiwan; he was the eldest of three children born to Joseph Edward Lake (a U.S. foreign service officer serving in Taiwan at the time). As a child he lived in Nigeria; Dahomey (now called Benin); Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Anthologies
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Adam Roberts (British Writer)
Adam Charles Roberts (born 30 June 1965) is a British science fiction and fantasy novelist. In 2018 he was elected vice-president of the H.G. Wells Society. Career He has a degree in English from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD from Cambridge University on Robert Browning and the Classics. He teaches English literature and creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. Adam Roberts has been nominated three times for the Arthur C. Clarke Award: in 2001 for his debut novel, ''Salt'', in 2007 for '' Gradisil'' and in 2010 for '' Yellow Blue Tibia''. He won both the 2012 BSFA Award for Best Novel, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, for ''Jack Glass''. It was further shortlisted for The Kitschies Red Tentacle award. His short story "Tollund" was nominated for the 2014 Sidewise Award. On his website, Roberts states that an ongoing project of his is to write a short story in every science fiction sub-genre. Roberts' science fiction has been compared to Lionel F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Irvine
Alexander Christian Irvine (born March 22, 1969) is an American fantasy and sci-fi author. Biography Irvine was born on March 22, 1969. Irvine first gained attention with his Locus Award-winning 2002 novel ''A Scattering of Jades'' (which also won the Crawford Award in 2003) and the stories that would form the 2003 collection ''Unintended Consequences''. He has also published the Grail Quest novel ''One King, One Soldier'' (2004), and the World War II-era historical fantasy ''The Narrows'' (2005). He released a collection of thirteen short stories called ''Pictures from an Expedition'' in 2006. ''Buyout,'' a novel set in 2041, was published by Random House in 2009. In addition to his original works, Irvine has published ''Have Robot, Will Travel'' (2004), a novel set in Isaac Asimov's positronic robot milieu; and ''Batman: Inferno'' (2006), about the DC Comics superhero. His novel ''The Ultimates: Against All Enemies'', about the Marvel Comics superhero team was published by Pock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Moorcock
Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer, best-known for science fiction and fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction. He has worked as an editor and is also a successful musician. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy since the 1960s and '70s. As editor of the British science fiction magazine ''New Worlds'', from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States, leading to the advent of cyberpunk. His publication of ''Bug Jack Barron'' (1969) by Norman Spinrad as a serial novel was notorious; in Parliament, some British MPs condemned the Arts Council of Great Britain for funding the magazine. He is also a recording musician, contributing to the bands Hawkwind, Blu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian McDonald (author)
Ian McDonald (born 1960) is a British science fiction novelist, living in Belfast. His themes include nanotechnology, postcyberpunk settings, and the impact of rapid social and technological change on non-Western societies. Early life Ian McDonald was born in 1960, in Manchester, to a Scottish father and Irish mother. He moved to Belfast when he was five and has lived there ever since. He lived through the whole of the 'Troubles' (1968–1999), and his sensibility has been permanently shaped by coming to understand Northern Ireland as a post-colonial society imposed on an older culture. Career McDonald sold his first story to a local Belfast magazine when he was 22, and in 1987 became a full-time writer. He has also worked in TV consultancy within Northern Ireland, contributing scripts to the Northern Irish Sesame Workshop production of ''Sesame Tree''. McDonald's debut novel was '' Desolation Road'' (1988), which takes place on a far future Mars in a town that develops arou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Edelman
Scott Edelman (; born 1955) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer and editor. Career In the 1970s, he worked in American comic books, in particular writing horror comics for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics. For Marvel he created the Scarecrow, and wrote some stories involving Captain America, Captain Marvel, and Omega the Unknown. He edited two issues of Marvel's self-produced fan magazine, ''FOOM'', in the mid-1970s. Edelman has also written a number of short stories, the Lambda Award-nominated novel ''The Gift'', and written for television, including work for Hanna-Barbera and several episodes of ''Tales from the Darkside''. He was the founding and only editor of the science fiction magazine ''Science Fiction Age'', which was published from 1992 until 2000. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Roberson (author)
John Christian Roberson (born August 25, 1970), known professionally as Chris Roberson, is an American science fiction author and publisher who is best known for alternate history novels and short stories. Early life Roberson grew up near Dallas, Texas and attended the University of Texas at Austin. After graduating with a degree in English literature and a minor in history, he leaned towards becoming a literary, post-modernist writer and penned a couple of novels in that style, which went unpublished as Roberson realized that he "wasn't depressed enough for that line of work". In the 1990s, Roberson wrote a couple of mystery novels but the end results turned out to be a mix of mystery and science fiction genres, so the publishers specializing in either of those rejected them. Ultimately, Roberson settled on writing science fiction, citing his upbringing in the 1970s and 1980s as the major inspiration, since the genre was particularly commonplace in America at that time: "Everythi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Di Filippo
Paul Di Filippo (born October 29, 1954) is an American science fiction writer. He is a regular reviewer for print magazines ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'', ''Science Fiction Eye'', ''The New York Review of Science Fiction'', '' Interzone'', and ''Nova Express'', as well as online at ''Science Fiction Weekly''. He is a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop. Along with Michael Bishop, Di Filippo has published a series of novels under the pseudonym Philip Lawson. Antonio Urias writes that Di Filippo's writing has a "tradition of the bizarre and the weird". His novella '' A Year in the Linear City'' was nominated for a Hugo award. Early life Di Filippo was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Critical reception Antonio Urias praised the collection ''The Steampunk Trilogy'' (1995) in a brisk review, writing in summary that the tripartite book "contains three bizarre and occasionally humorous novels taking the reader from Queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Preston Reynolds (born 13 March 1966) is a Welsh science fiction author. He specialises in hard science fiction and space opera. He spent his early years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle University, where he studied physics and astronomy. Afterwards, he earned a PhD in astrophysics from the University of St Andrews. In 1991, he moved to Noordwijk in the Netherlands where he met his wife Josette (who is from France). There, he worked for the European Space Research and Technology Centre (part of the European Space Agency) until 2004 when he left to pursue writing full-time. He returned to Wales in 2008 and lives near Cardiff. Works Reynolds wrote his first four published science fiction short stories while still a graduate student, in 1989–1991; they appeared in 1990–1992, his first sale being to '' Interzone''. In 1991 Reynolds graduated and moved from Scotland to the Netherlands to work at ESA. He then started spending much of his writing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul McAuley
Paul J. McAuley (born 23 April 1955) is a British botanist and science fiction author. A biologist by training, McAuley writes mostly hard science fiction. His novels dealing with themes such as biotechnology, alternative history/alternative reality, and space travel. McAuley began with far-future space opera '' Four Hundred Billion Stars'', its sequel ''Eternal Light'', and the planetary-colony adventure '' Of the Fall''. ''Red Dust'', set on a far-future Mars colonized by the Chinese, is a planetary romance featuring many emerging technologies and SF motifs: nanotechnology, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, personality downloads, virtual reality. The Confluence series, set in an even more distant future (about ten million years from now), is one of a number of novels to use Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point Theory (that the universe seems to be evolving toward a maximum degree of complexity and consciousness) as one of its themes. About the same time, he published ''Pasq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
