AA Attanasio

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Alfred Angelo Attanasio (born September 20, 1951 in Newark , New Jersey ) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer.

Life

Attanasio studied literature at the University of Pennsylvania , where he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in 1973 , and then at Columbia University ( Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing 1975) and at New York University ( Master in Literature 1976). He had already started writing experimental texts and came to science fiction through a contact with John W. Campbell , then editor of the SF magazine Analog Science Fiction , which had come about when Attanasio's aunt was in the same crochet club as Campbell's wife .

From 1971 Attanasio began to publish short stories, a large part of which appeared in 1985 in the short story volume Beastmarks . Another book of short stories, Twice Dead Things , was published in 2006.

In 1981 Attanasio's debut novel Radix , the first volume of a tetralogy, was published . The extensive novel describes in detail the earth of a distant future, which is exposed to the gene-changing radiation of a black hole into a bizarre world, populated by human mutants , mutated animal races, alien spirits and the last human tribes. Radix was nominated for the Nebula Award for best novel in 1981. The other volumes in the series were In Other Worlds (1984), Arc of the Dream (1986) and The Last Legends of Earth (1989).

In addition to the Radix novels, Attanasio also published the Arthor cycle, which revolves around the myths surrounding King Arthur , as well as the novels Wyvern (1988; German as Jaki ), an adventure novel with fantastic elements about a semi-savage in East Asia, from the one becomes a successful pirate, and Hunting the Ghost Dancer (1991), which is about one last Neanderthal man.

Mostly Attanasio writes under his abbreviated real name "AA Attanasio", but he has also published under the pseudonym "Adam Lee".

Attanasio lives in Honolulu , Hawaii .

bibliography

Series and cycles

Radix
  • 1 Radix (1981)
    • German: Radix: The legend of a future that was previously unthinkable even in science fiction. Translated by Ralph Tegtmeier . Bastei-Verlag Lübbe (Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 24059), Bergisch Gladbach 1984, ISBN 3-404-24059-6 .
  • 2 In Other Worlds (1984)
    • English: Evoe͏̈: An unbelievable love on the edge of time. Translated by Angelika Weidmann. Bastei-Verlag Lübbe (Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 24094), Bergisch Gladbach 1987, ISBN 3-404-24094-4 .
  • 3 Arc of the Dream (1988)
  • 4 The Last Legends of Earth (1989)
    • English: The last legend of the earth. Translated by Ralph Tegtmeier. Bastei-Verlag Lübbe (Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 24148), Bergisch Gladbach 1991, ISBN 3-404-24148-7 .
Arthor
  • 1 The Dragon and the Unicorn (1994)
  • 2 Arthor (1995; also: The Eagle and the Sword , 1997)
    • German: King Arthor. Translated by Michael Morgental. Weitbrecht, Stuttgart, Vienna and Bern 1996, ISBN 3-522-71811-9 .
  • 3 The Wolf and the Crown (1998; also: The Perilous Order , 1999)
  • 4 The Serpent and the Grail (1999)
The Dominions of Irth (as Adam Lee)
  • 1 The Dark Shore (1996)
  • 2 The Shadow Eater (1998)
  • 3 Octoberland (1998)

Novels

  • Wyvern (1988)
    • German: Jaki. Translated by Wiebke Schmaltz and Cornelia Stoll. Ed. Weitbrecht, Stuttgart and Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-522-70620-X .
  • Hunting the Ghost Dancer (1991)
  • Kingdom of the Grail (1992)
    • English: In the Kingdom of the Grail. Translation by Maja Ueberle-Pfaff and Susanne Höbel. Weitbrecht, Stuttgart and Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-522-71320-6 .
  • The Moon's Wife (1993)
  • Solis (1994)
  • Silent (1996; with Robert S. Henderson)
  • Centuries (1997)
  • The Crow : Hellbound (2001)
  • Killing with the Edge of the Moon (2006)
  • The Conjure Book (2007)
  • The Moon's Prophecy (Brave Tails # 1, 2009, as Jonathan Sparrow)

Collections

  • Beastmarks (1985)
  • Twice Dead Things (2006)

Short stories

1971
  • Spice Trails by Dr. Joseph-Beyrd Markham (1971, in: Mount to the Stars, # 2 )
1972
  • The Elder Sign (1972, in: Meade Frierson, Penny Frierson (Eds.): HPL )
1973
  • Loup Garou (in: The Haunt of Horror, June 1973 )
1974
1975
1977
  • The Blood's Horizon (1977, in: Robert Silverberg (Ed.): New Dimensions Science Fiction Number 7 )
1980
1985
  • The Answerer of Dreams (1985, in: AA Attanasio: Beastmarks )
  • The Last Dragon Master (1985, in: AA Attanasio: Beastmarks )
  • Matter Mutter Mother (1985, in: AA Attanasio: Beastmarks )
  • Monkey Puzzle (1985, in: AA Attanasio: Beastmarks )
  • Nuclear Tan (1985, in: AA Attanasio: Beastmarks )
  • Over the Rainbow (1985, in: AA Attanasio: Beastmarks )
  • Sherlock Holmes and Basho (1985, in: AA Attanasio: Beastmarks )
1989
  • Atlantis Rose (in: Journal Wired, Winter 1989 )
1992
1993
  • Wax Me Mind (in: Crank! # 1, Fall 1993 )
1994
  • Remains of Adam (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, January 1994 )
  • The Dark One: A Mythograph (in: Crank! # 4, Autumn 1994 ; also: The Dark One , 2008)
1995
  • A Priestess of Nodens (1995, in: Scott David Aniolowski (Ed.): Made in Goatswood: New Tales of Horror in the Severn Valley )
1998
  • Hellbent (1998, in: Edward E. Kramer and James O'Barr (Eds.): Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams )
2003
  • Time in the Hourless House (2003, in: Edward P. Berglund (Ed.): The Disciples of Cthulhu II: Blasphemous Tales of the Followers )
2004
  • Demons Hide Their Faces (2004, in: Al Sarrantonio (Ed.): Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy )
  • Zero's Twin (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2004 )
2005
  • Shagbark (in: Book of Dark Wisdom # 6, Spring 2005 )
2006
  • Brave Tails (2006, in: AA Attanasio: Twice Dead Things )
  • Death's Head Moon (2006, in: AA Attanasio: Twice Dead Things )
  • Riversplash Mountain (2006, in: AA Attanasio: Twice Dead Things )
  • Slain (2006, in: AA Attanasio: Twice Dead Things )
  • The Strange, Wild Provenance of the Brave Tails (2006, in: AA Attanasio: Twice Dead Things )
  • Thirteen Raptures of the Black Goat (2006, in: AA Attanasio: Twice Dead Things )
  • Twice Dead Things: Investigations of the Fractal Blood Soul (2006, in: AA Attanasio: Twice Dead Things )
2007
  • Telefunken Remix (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2007 )
  • Fractal Freaks (2007, in: William Jones (Ed.): Horrors Beyond II: Stories of Strange Creations )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to LCAuth September 8, 1951
  2. ↑ AA Attanasio - Novelist and student of the imagination living in Honolulu , accessed July 17, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Attanasio, AA
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Attanasio, Alfred Angelo (full name); Attanasio, Al (alternative spelling); Lee, Adam (pseudonym); Sparrow, Jonathan (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction and fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark , New Jersey , United States