Jack Womack (born January 8, 1956) is an American author of

fiction Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying character (arts), individuals, events, or setting (narrative), places that are imagination, imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent ...

and

speculative fiction Speculative fiction is an umbrella term, umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses all the subgenres that depart from Realism (arts), realism, or strictly imitating everyday reality, instead presenting fantastical, supernatural, futuristic, or ...

. Womack was born in

Lexington, Kentucky Lexington is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city coterminous with and the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census the city's population was 322,570, making it the List of ...

, and now lives in

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with his wife and daughter. "Yeah, I was in Kentucky. Lived there till I was 21, moved up here, and I've lived in my present apartment for 32 years in April."

Bibliography

"Dryco" series, in order of the series timeline: * '' Random Acts of Senseless Violence'' (1995) * '' Heathern'' (1990) * '' Ambient'' (1987) * '' Terraplane'' (1988) * '' Elvissey'' (1993) ( Philip K. Dick Award, 1993) * '' Going, Going, Gone'' (2000) Other novels: * '' Let's Put the Future Behind Us'' (1996) Short stories: *"Out of Sight, Out of Mind" (1990) in ''Walls of Fear'' (ed. Kathryn Cramer) *"Lifeblood" (1991) in ''Whisper of Blood'' (ed. Ellen Datlow) *"That Old School Tie" (1994) in '' Little Deaths'' (ed. Ellen Datlow) *"Audience" (1997) in '' The Horns of Elfland'' (ed. Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, and Donald G. Keller) Nonfiction: *''Flying Saucers Are Real!'' (2016)

References

External links

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Paul McAuley and Jack Womack: A Double Interview

interview with

Cory Doctorow Cory Efram Doctorow (; born 17 July 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog ''Boing Boing''. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of th ...

, ''

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'', August 1, 2001
Interview
with Rhizome.org, December 7, 2011
Interview with Starburstmagazine.com
August 2016 * with Milk, August 2, 2016 1956 births Living people 20th-century American novelists American male novelists American science fiction writers American satirists American satirical novelists Date of birth missing (living people) Writers from Lexington, Kentucky 20th-century American male writers Novelists from Kentucky {{sf-writer-stub