Alan Brennert

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Alan Michael Brennert (* thirtieth May 1954 in Englewood , New Jersey ) is an American science fiction - writer , television producer and screenwriter . Brennert has lived in southern California since 1973 and wrote his thesis as a screenwriter at the University of California .

biography

TV Shows

Brennert's first television work was a series of scripts for Wonder Woman in 1978 . He then wrote for Buck Rogers . In 1991, he won an Emmy as a producer and screenwriter for LA Law - Star Lawyers, Tricks, Litigation . He is best known for his work on The New Twilight Zone and for the new edition Outer Limits - The Unknown Dimension . The most recognized of his episodes for The New Twilight Zone was Her Pilgrim Soul , one of his own short stories. Under the name Michael Bryant , he wrote scripts for Stargate Atlantis and Star Trek: Enterprise from 2001 .

prose

Brennert also wrote novels and short stories. In 1973 his first short story City of Masques was published. In 1975 he was nominated for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction . In 1991 it won the Nebula Award and was featured in Gardner Dozois ' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection . His 2003 book Moloka'i is a historical novel set in the Kalaupapa leper colony in Hawaii in the early 1900s . He had the historical figures Father Damien , Mother Marianne Cope and Lawrence M. Judd appear as protagonists . The book received mostly positive reviews. The idea for the book arose from a miniseries that Brennert wrote for NBC , but which was never implemented. According to his website, he wrote:

"Alan decided he needed to write something that people would get to see, and the result was Moloka'i ."

"Alan decided he had to write something that people wanted to see, and the result was Moloka'i ."

- Alan Brennert : Brennert's homepage

In 2009 Brennert returned to Hawaii and Honolulu for literary work. It is a historical novel centered around a Korean bride from the early 1900s. The story told in Honolulu comes from Brennert's research for Moloka'i .

comics

His first work for the comic industry consisted of interviews with AE van Vogt , Larry Niven and Theodore Sturgeon , which were published in the Marvel Comics magazine Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction . His first comic book plots were Wonder Woman # 231 and # 232 for DC Comics in 1977, in collaboration with Martin Pasko . The two collaborated again for Star Trek Comics # 12 in 1981 . In the same year, Brennert worked with Dick Giordano on the main story for Batman Detective Comics # 500. The story To Kill a Legend was republished in the 1981 DC's Year's Best Comics Stories collection .

Brennert then wrote four editions of The Brave and the Bold in which Creeper , Hawk and Dove and Catwoman also appeared. The editor Dennis O'Neil 1983 episode # 192 Daredevil , which was published on the episodes of Frank Miller's Comics. Because of his work as a screenwriter, Brennert did not get around to writing comics for years. A 1989 edition of Deadman in Christmas with the Super-Heroes # 2 was his next comic book writing. 1990 followed an episode of Black Canary in Secret Origins vol. 2 # 50.

He wrote Batman: Holy Terror , the first Batman comic with the Elseworlds logo. His last comic book to date was Batman Black and White in 2000 as part of Batman: Gotham Knights , drawn by José Luis García-López . In 2014, he asked those responsible for a realignment of the character Barbara Kean Gordon, who was fair to her potential. Barbara Kean Gordon was introduced in Detective Comics # 500 and was to become part of the Gotham TV series . DC Comics and the parent company Warner Bros. rejected his entry on the grounds that the character was a duplicate of an existing DC Comics character. In 2016, Tales of the Batman: Alan Brennert , a hardcover collection of Brennert's work for DC Comics, was released. Brennert himself called The Autobiography of Bruce Wayne from The Brave and the Bold # 197 1983 his personal favorite as part of his work for DC.

Awards

  • 1975: Astounding Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction
  • 1991: Outstanding Drama Series , LA Law
  • 1991: Nebula Award for best short story for Ma Qui

bibliography

Fiction

Moloka'i (series of novels)
  • 1 Moloka'i (2003)
  • 2 Daughter of Moloka'i (2019)
Novels
  • City of Masques (1978)
  • Kindred Spirits (1984)
  • Time and Chance (1990)
  • Holy Terror (1991)
  • Honolulu (2009)
  • Palisades Park (2013)
Collections
  • Her Pilgrim Soul and Other Stories (1990)
  • Ma Qui and Other Phantoms (1991)
  • Weird Romance: Two One-Act Musicals of Speculative Fiction (1993; with Alan Menken and David Spencer )
  • The Hawaii Novels (2015)
Short stories

1973:

  • The Night People (in: The Haunt of Horror, October 1973 )
  • Nostalgia Tripping (1973, in: Robert Hoskins (Ed.): Infinity Five )
  • The Stars Have All Gone Out (in: Vertex: The Magazine of Science Fiction, October 1973 )

1974:

  • Touchplate (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, September 1974 )
  • In This Image (1974, in: Terry Carr (Ed.): Fellowship of the Stars )
  • A Winter Memory (in: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1974 )

1975:

  • All the Charms of Sycorax (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, July 1975 )

1976:

  • The Second Soul (in: Galaxy, March 1976 )
  • Jamie's Smile (1976, in: Terry Carr (Ed.): The Ides of Tomorrow: Original Science Fiction Tales of Horror )

1977:

  • Brian in the Dreaming Seat (1977, in: Kate Wilhelm (Ed.): Clarion SF )
  • Crown of Thorns (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, February 1977 )
  • Ghost Story (1977)
  • Skyghosts and Dusk-Devils (1977, in: Scott Edelstein (Ed.): Future Pastimes ; also: Ghost Story , 1991)
  • Steel (1977)

1979:

1980:

  • Queen of the Magic Kingdom (1980, in: George RR Martin (Ed.): New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees )
  • Stage Whisper (1980, in: George RR Martin (Ed.): New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees )
  • Voices in the Earth (1980)
    • German: Voices in the earth. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (ed.): Lenin's tooth and Stalin's tears. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5055, 1994, ISBN 3-453-06627-8 .

1986:

  • Her Pilgrim Soul (TV play script; in: Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, December 1986 )

1989:

  • Healer (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1989 )
  • The Third Sex (in: Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, Issue 3: Spring 1989 )
    • German: The third gender. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The defaulting time machine. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5645, 1997, ISBN 3-453-11905-3 .

1990:

  • Sea Change (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1990 )
  • Her Pilgrim Soul (1990, in: Alan Brennert: Her Pilgrim Soul and Other Stories )
    • German: The pilgrim soul in you. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Heyne Science Fiction Annual Volume 1994. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5100, 1994, ISBN 3-453-07264-2 .

1991:

  • Futures (1991, in: Alan Brennert: Ma Qui and Other Phantoms )
  • Ma Qui (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1991 )

1993:

  • The Girl Who Was Plugged In (Act I) (1993, in: Alan Menken, David Spencer and Alan Brennert: Weird Romance: Two One-Act Musicals of Speculative Fiction ; with James Tiptree, Jr. , David Spencer and Alan Menken)
  • Her Pilgrim Soul (Act II) (1993, in: Alan Menken, David Spencer and Alan Brennert: Weird Romance: Two One-Act Musicals of Speculative Fiction ; with David Spencer and Alan Menken)

1995:

  • Cradle (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1995 )
  • The Man Who Loved the Sea (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1995 )
    • German: The man who loved the sea. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Reptilienliebe. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 6354, 2001, ISBN 3-453-17113-6 .

1996:

  • The Refuge (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1996 )
    • German: The Refugium. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Heyne Science Fiction Annual Volume 1999. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 6301, 1999, ISBN 3-453-14899-1 .
  • Fantasies (1996, in: Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett (Eds.): Fear the Fever )

1997:

  • Echoes (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1997 )
    • German: Echos. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Proust Syndrome. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5999, 1999, ISBN 3-453-14886-X .

1999:

  • The White City (1999, in: John Helfers and Martin H. Greenberg (Eds.): Future Crimes )

2009:

  • Puowaina (2009, in: Carol Serling (Ed.): Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary )
Anthologies

comics

DC Comics
Marvel Comics
  • Daredevil # 192 (1983)
  • Star Trek # 12 (1981)
  • Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction # 4–5, Special # 1 (1975–1976)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cathy Lamb: Interview with Alan Brennert . Cathylamb.org. March 25, 2014. Archived from the original on August 10, 2015.
  2. ↑ John Clute : Brennert, Alan . In: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . Orbit Books, London, United Kingdom 2011.
  3. ^ Campbell Award . World Science Fiction Society. 2011. Archived from the original on June 5, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ biography on his website (English)
  5. ^ Alan Brennert: Biography . AlanBrennert.com. 2013. Archived from the original on July 24, 2013.
  6. ↑ Matthew K. Manning, Hannah, ed.Dolan: 1980s . In: DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle . Dorling Kindersley, London, United Kingdom 2010.
  7. ^ Robert Greenberger : Memories of Detective Comics # 500 . In: TwoMorrows Publishing (Ed.): Back Issue! . No. 69, Raleigh, North Carolina, Dec 2013, pp. 54-57.
  8. ↑ Kelly pp. 54-58
  9. ^ Matthew K. Manning, Alastair, ed.Dougall: 1980s . In: Batman: A Visual History . Dorling Kindersley , London, United Kingdom 2014, ISBN 978-1-4654-2456-3 , p. 140: "Alan Brennert and artist Jim Aparo pulled out all the stops to please fans of the Golden Age in this memorable tale."
  10. ↑ Colin Smith: On Alan Brennert and Jim Aparo's Batman story, 'Interlude on Earth-Two' . Sequart Organization . January 10, 2012. Archived from the original on March 22, 2015.
  11. ^ Manning "1980s" in Dougall, p. 144: "The romance between the Earth-Two Batman and Catwoman was examined in this tale by writer Alan Brennert and penciller Joe Staton."
  12. ↑ Kuljit Mithra: Interview With Alan Brennert . Manwithoutfear.com. December 2014. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015.
  13. ↑ Kelly pp. 58-59
  14. ↑ Kelly pp. 59-61
  15. ^ Manning "1990s" in Dougall, p. 193: Batman: Holy Terror became the first Elseworlds special. This tale by writer Alan Brennert and artist Norm Breyfogle featured a Gotham City ruled by the church and Batman as a vigilante man of the cloth. "
  16. ↑ Kelly pp. 63-64
  17. ↑ Janelle Asselin: Batman Writer Alan Brennert, Gotham , And The Truth About DC Comics Media Royalties . ComicsAlliance . July 9, 2014. Archived from the original on September 7, 2015.
  18. ↑ Hugh Armitage: Veteran Batman writer Alan Brennert denied Gotham royalties . Digital spy . July 9, 2014. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015.
  19. ↑ Alan Brennert: Tales of the Batman: Alan Brennert . DC Comics, Burbank, California 2016, ISBN 978-1-4012-6349-2 , p. 208.
  20. ↑ Alex Dueben: Alan Brennert Recalls the Origins of His Fan-Favorite Tales of the Batman . Comic Book Resources . June 28, 2016. Archived from the original on October 28, 2017 .: "My personal favorite, by a whisker (pun intended), is the Batman / Catwoman story 'The Autobiography of Bruce Wayne'."
  21. ^ Nebula Awards from the 1990s . SFWA Nebula Awards. Archived from the original on June 3, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Brennert, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brennert, Alan Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenplay and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Englewood , New Jersey , United States