Øyvind Kvernvold Myhre (born 2 January 1945) is a Norwegian author of
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...
and
fantasy literature
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. He has written more than twenty novels and short stories. from 1975-1977 he was author and editor of the Norwegian science fiction magazine NOVA.
He also published a fanzine called GANDALF.
Øyvind Myhre earned his
siv.ing. degree from the
Norwegian Institute of Technology. He has worked for
IBM as a system consultant.
Born in
Fluberg
Fluberg is a village in Søndre Land Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located near the north end of the Randsfjorden, about north of the village of Hov and about to the southeast of the village of Dokka. The village wa ...
, Myhre is a member of
Gran municipal council
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for the period of 2007-2011, representing a local list.
Frequent themes in his novels are meditations about freedom and how it is threatened by state power and excessive bureaucracy, reflecting Myhre's libertarian outlook. Myhre's fascination with
H.P. Lovecraft and the
Cthulhu mythos is also apparent in several of his novels and short stories, ranging from more oblique references to the explicit Lovecraftian themes and references in ''Mørke over Dunwich'' (1991).
Bibliography
*''Aster'' (1974)
*''Snøen på Nix Olympica'' (1975)
*''Kontrabande'' (1976)
*''De siste tider: en fantasi om frihet'' (1976)
*''Demoner i dagslys: tretten fortellinger'' (1977)
*''Sabotørene'' (1978)
*''Magiske verdener: fantasilitteraturen fra Gilgamesj til Richard Adams'' (1979)
*''Kongen og gudene'' (1979)
*''En himmel av jern'' (1980)
*''Grønlandsfarerne'' (1981)
*''1989'' (1982)
*''Makt''(1983)
*''Datakultur: (en forfatters farvel til skrivemaskinen)'' (1983)
*''Følge en drøm'' (1984)
*''PÃ¥lgrims vandring'' (1985)
*''Møt meg i Moolawatana'' (1986)
*''Mørke over Dunwich'' (1991)
*''Skyld'' – roman (1993)
*''Stjerner over Tharsis'' (1995)
*''Vindens datter, Bjørnens bror'' (1997)
References
1945 births
Living people
20th-century Norwegian novelists
Oppland politicians
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
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