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Keith Taylor (author)
Keith John Taylor (born 26 December 1946) is an Australian science fiction and fantasy writer. Biography Born in Tasmania, Taylor now resides in Melbourne, Australia. Getting his start in Ted White's ''Fantastic (magazine), Fantastic'', Taylor went on to collaborate with Andrew J. Offutt on two novels based upon the Robert E. Howard hero, Tigers of the Sea, Cormac Mac Art – an Irish Viking active in King Arthur's time. Taylor's series of novels centering on an Irish character of his own creation – the bard Felimid mac Fal – was published throughout the 1980s. Much of Taylor's fictional output in the 1990s was in the Arthurian fantasy subgenre. Many stories featuring his character, Kamose the Magician, were published in Weird Tales in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Taylor suffered a protracted illness beginning in 2003. He is reported to be working on new fiction. Bibliography Novels ''Bard'' *''Bard'' (1981) *''Bard II'' (1984, also known as ''Bard II: The First Long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (; August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked in the aerospace industry, but eventually focused on his writing career. In an obituary in ''Gizmodo'', he is described as "a tireless ambassador for the future." Pournelle's hard science fiction writing received multiple awards. In addition to his solo writing, he wrote several novels with collaborators including Larry Niven. Pournelle served a term as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Pournelle's journalism focused primarily on the computer industry, astronomy, and space exploration. From the 1970s until the early 1990s, he contributed to the computer magazine ''Byte'', writing from the viewpoint of an intelligent user, with the oft-cited credo, "We do this stuff so you won't ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1946 Births
Events January * January 6 - The first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into four occupation zones. * January 10 ** The first meeting of the United Nations is held, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London. ** ''Project Diana'' bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the Space Age. * January 11 - Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister. * January 16 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as head of the French provisional government. * January 17 - The United Nations Security Council holds its first session, at Church House, Westminster in London. * January 19 ** The Bell XS-1 is test flown for the first time (unpowered), with Bell's chief test pilot Jack Woolams at the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurealis Award For Best Young-adult Short Story
The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers". To qualify, a work must have been first published by an Australian citizen or permanent resident between 1 January and 31 December of the corresponding year; the presentation ceremony is held the following year. It has grown from a small function of around 20 people to a two-day event attended by over 200 people. Since their creation in 1995, awards have been given in various categories of speculative fiction. Categories currently include science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative young adult fiction—with separate awards for novels and short fiction—collections, anthologies, illustrative works or graphic novels, children's books, and an award for excellence in speculative fiction. The awards have attracted the attention of publishers by setting down a benchmar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ditmar Award
The Ditmar Award (formally the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Award; formerly the "Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award") has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (the "Natcon") to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction (including fantasy and horror) and science fiction fandom. The award is similar to the Hugo Award but on a national rather than international scale. They are named for Martin James Ditmar "Dick" Jenssen, an Australian fan and artist, who financially supported the awards at their inception. The current rules for the award (which had for many years been specified only in the minimalist "Jack Herman constitution") were developed in 2000 and 2001 as a result of controversy resulting from the withdrawal of the works of several prominent writers from eligibility, and the rules are subject to revision by the "Business Meeting" of the Natcon. Process Award-eligible works and persons are first nominated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locus Online
''Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field'', founded in 1968, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California. It is the news organ and trade journal for the English-language science fiction and fantasy fields. It also publishes comprehensive listings of all new books published in the genres (excluding self-published). The magazine also presents the annual Locus Awards. '' Locus Online'' was launched in April 1997, as a semi-autonomous web version of ''Locus Magazine''. History Charles N. Brown, Ed Meskys, and Dave Vanderwerf founded ''Locus'' in 1968 as a news fanzine to promote the (ultimately successful) bid to host the 1971 World Science Fiction Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. Originally intended to run only until the site-selection vote was taken at St. Louiscon, the 1969 Worldcon in St. Louis, Missouri, Brown decided to continue publishing ''Locus'' as a mimeographed general science fiction and fantasy newszine. ''Locus'' succeede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lowder
James Daniel Lowder (born January 2, 1963 in Quincy, Massachusetts) is an American author and editor, working regularly within the fantasy, dark fantasy, and horror genres, and on tabletop role-playing games and critical works exploring popular culture. Early life and education Lowder graduated from Whitman-Hanson Regional High School in 1981 and was inducted into the high school's hall of fame in 1991. While at Whitman-Hanson, he wrote and edited for the school newspaper and yearbook, and did the same for two summers at Project Contemporary Competitiveness at Bridgewater State University. In 1985 he graduated from Marquette University with an honors BA in English and History. While at Marquette, he edited and wrote for the ''Marquette Journal'', the school's literary magazine. After Marquette, he took graduate classes in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he also taught writing, film, and fantasy literature courses. Lowder completed a Masters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meredith Costain
Meredith is a Welsh Brittonic family name, and is also sometimes used as a girl's or boy's forename. The Welsh form is "Maredudd". People * Meredith (given name) * Meredith (surname) Places Australia * Meredith, Victoria United States * Meredith, Colorado * Lake Meredith (Colorado) * Meredith, Michigan * Meredith, New Hampshire, a New England town ** Meredith (CDP), New Hampshire, the main village in the town * Meredith, New York * Meredith Township, Wake County, North Carolina * Lake Meredith, reservoir formed by a dam on the Canadian River at Sanford, Texas Ships * HMS ''Meredith'' (1763), sloop of the British Royal Navy purchased in 1763 and sold in 1784 * USCS ''Meredith'', survey ship in United States Coast Survey service from 1851 to 1872 * USS ''Meredith'', the name of more than one United States Navy ship * SS ''Meredith Victory'', United States Merchant Marine Victory ship Other * Meredith College, women's liberal arts college located in Raleigh, North Carolina * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dream Weavers (anthology)
''Dream Weavers'' is a 1996 fantasy anthology edited by Paul Collins. Background ''Dream Weavers'' was first published in September 1996 by Penguin Books in trade paperback format. It was a short-list nominee for the 1997 Ditmar Award for best long fiction but lost to Lucy Sussex' '' The Scarlet Rider''. ''Dream Weavers'' features 13 stories from 13 authors. One of the stories, " The Sword of God" by Russell Blackford won both the 1996 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story and the 1997 Ditmar Award for best Australian short fiction. Another story "At the Edge of the Sea" by Keith Taylor was a short-list nominee for the 1996 Aurealis Award for best young-adult short story but lost to Isobelle Carmody's " Green Monkey Dreams". Contents *Introduction by Paul Collins *"The Innkeeper", novelette by Tony Shillitoe *"The Scribe of a Hundred Lies", short story by Melinda Ross *"Lucky Jonglar", short story by Sean McMullen *"The Empty Quarter", short story by Jane Routley *"Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
