Philip K. Dick. Foreverness - Raise a Toast to Jack Vance! Not A Blog. The m john harrison blog. Jeffrey Thomas. Leigh Brackett. Life[edit] Leigh Brackett was born December 7, 1915 in Los Angeles, California and grew up there.
On December 31, 1946, at age 31, she married Edmond Hamilton in San Gabriel, California, and moved with him to Kinsman, Ohio. She died of cancer in 1978 in Lancaster, California.[1] Career[edit] Author[edit] Brackett was first published in her mid-twenties. Brackett's first novel, No Good from a Corpse, published in 1944, was a hard-boiled mystery novel in the tradition of Raymond Chandler. In 1946, the same year that Brackett married science fiction author Edmond Hamilton, Planet Stories published the novella "Lorelei of the Red Mist".
Brackett returned from her break from science-fiction writing, caused by her cinematic endeavors, in 1948. Brackett's stories thereafter adopted a more elegiac tone. This last story was published in the very last issue (Summer 1955) of Planet Stories, always Brackett's most reliable market for science fiction. Brackett's Solar System[edit] Screenwriter[edit] Robert Charles Wilson - Home. Lucius Shepard. Lucius Shepard (August 21, 1943 – March 18, 2014) was an American writer.
Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leaned into other genres, such as magical realism. His work is infused with a political and historical sensibility and an awareness of literary antecedents. Career[edit] A native of Lynchburg, Virginia where he was born in 1943,[1] Shepard's first short stories appeared in 1983, and his first novel, Green Eyes, appeared in 1984.
At the time, he was considered part of the cyberpunk movement. Lucius Shepard resided in Portland, Oregon. Themes and evolution[edit] Shepard stopped writing fiction for much of the 1990s. Much of Shepard's later work was non-fiction. According to fellow author James Patrick Kelly, Shepard was an avid sports fan who has often used dramatic sports moments as inspiration to write.[7] In the summer of 2008, he moved to Neuchatel, Switzerland in order to work on several screenplays.
He died in March 2014 at the age of 70.[8][1] Cordwainer Smith and His Remarkable Science Fiction. Philip K. Dick - Science Fiction Author - Official Site. Isaac Asimov. A. E. van Vogt. Alfred Elton van Vogt (/vænvoʊt/; April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex[1] science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the "Golden Age" of the genre.
Early life and writings[edit] Van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada. Until he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home.[2] Van Vogt's father, a lawyer, moved his family several times and his son found these moves difficult, remarking in later life: Childhood was a terrible period for me. I was like a ship without anchor being swept along through darkness in a storm. Post-war philosophy[edit] In 1944, van Vogt moved to Hollywood, California, where his writing took on new dimensions after World War II. Van Vogt was also profoundly affected by revelations of totalitarian police states that emerged after World War II.
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