Alexei Panshin

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Alexei Panshin (actually Alexis Adams Panshin ; born August 14, 1940 in Lansing , Michigan ) is an American science fiction writer and critic. He is married to Cory Panshin , who is also an SF writer and critic and with whom he collaborates frequently.

Life

Panshin is the son of Alexis John Panshin, a Russian-born professor of wood technology , and Lucie Elizabeth, née Padget. During his military service in the US Army from 1960 to 1962, he fought in Korea . He then studied at Michigan State University , where he made his bachelor's degree in 1965 , and at the University of Chicago , where he completed his master's degree in 1966 . 1967 won the Hugo Award for best fan writer . In 1968 Heinlein appeared in Dimension , an analysis of the work of Robert A. Heinlein. In 1969 he married Cory Seidman.

In the same year he received the Nebula Award for his debut novel Rite of Passage (German as World Between the Stars ) . The novel tells the story of a girl who grows up on a generational spaceship and of her entry into the adult world. As an initiation rite (the literal translation of the English title), it is performed on a planet that was inhabited by earthly colonists in the past, where it has to survive for a certain period of time and cope with the challenges of the alien environment and the alien culture of the inhabitants of the planet.

Besides Rite of Passage and the fantasy novel Earth Magic (1978), an originally entitled The Son of Black Morca serialized in the magazine Fantastic published collaboration with his wife, Cory, wrote Panshin three novels with the protagonists Anthony Villiers, a charming mixture of adventurer, villain and dandy, and his companion Torve, the trough. The humorous and slightly satirical space adventures were translated into German and should be continued in a fourth volume, The Universal Panthograph , which was never published. Panshin's short stories appear collectively in Farewell to Yesterday's Tomorrow (1975) and Transmutations: A Book of Personal Alchemy (1982).

The collaboration between Alexei and Cory Panshin mainly relates to their critical work. Together they wrote a large number of reviews and essays. Their main work in this area, on which they both worked for many years, is The World Beyond the Hill , an extensive science fiction story that appeared in 1989 and for which both won the Hugo Award for best non-fiction book in 1990. The World Beyond the Hill took second place at the Locus Awards in 1990 .

bibliography

Anthony Villiers (series of novels)
  • 1 Star Well (1968)
    • English: The galactic dandy: an Antony-Villiers adventure with Torve, the trough. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 21158, 1982, ISBN 3-404-21158-8 .
  • 2 The Thurb Revolution (1968)
    • English: The Blurb Revolution. Translated by CT Bauer. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 21162, 1983, ISBN 3-404-21162-6 .
  • 3 Masque World (1969)
    • German: Maskenwelt. Translated by CT Bauer. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 21167, 1983, ISBN 3-404-21167-7 .
  • New Celebrations: The Adventures of Anthony Villiers (2002, collective edition of 1–3)
Novels
  • Rite of Passage (1968)
    • German: world between the stars. Translated by Norbert Wölfl. Goldmanns Weltraum Taschenbücher # 0122, 1970. Also called: World between the stars. Translated by Harro Christensen. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller # 22024, 1980, ISBN 3-404-22024-2 .
  • The Son of Black Morca (1973, also as Earth Magic , 1978, with Cory Panshin)
    • German: Erdmagie. Translated by Rosemarie Hundertmarck. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 20027, 1980, ISBN 3-404-20027-6 .
Collections
  • Farewell to Yesterday's Tomorrow (1975)
  • Transmutations: A Book of Personal Alchemy (1982)
Short stories
  • Down to the Worlds of Men (1963)
  • Dark Conception (1964, with Joe L. Hensley, as Louis JA Adams)
  • What Size Are Giants? (1965)
  • The Sons of Prometheus (1966)
  • The Destiny of Milton Gomrath (1967)
  • The Planet Slummers (1968, with Terry Carr)
  • One Sunday in Neptune (1969)
    • German: On a Sunday in Neptune. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 32. Ullstein (Ullstein 2000 # 59 (3012)), 1973, ISBN 3-548-03012-2 .
  • Star Dream (1969, with Terry Carr)
  • What's your excuse? (1969)
  • A Sense of Direction (1969)
  • Arpad (1971)
  • How Georges Duchamps Discovered a Plot to Take Over the World (1971)
  • How Can We Sink When We Can Fly? (1971)
    • English: Why do we drown when we can fly ?. In: Terry Carr (Ed.): The Queen of Demons. König (König Taschenbücher # 29), 1973, ISBN 3-8082-0072-3 .
  • Now I'm Watching Roger (1972)
  • Sky Blue (1972, with Cory Panshin)
  • A Taste of Immortality (1972)
  • A Fine Night to Be Alive (1972)
  • Found in Space (1974, as R. Monroe Weems)
  • When the Vertical World Becomes Horizontal (1974)
  • Lady Sunshine and the Magoon of Beatus (1975, with Cory Panshin)
  • Coming Home in the Dark (1982)
  • The Green Elephant (1982)
  • The Old Space Ranger (1982)
Non-fiction
  • Heinlein in Dimension (1968, online )
  • SF in Dimension: A Book of Explorations (1976, with Cory Panshin)
  • Mondi interiori: Storia della Fantascienza (1978; introduction by Carlo Pagetti, translated by Riccardo Valla; Italian translation of a series of contributions from Fantastic by Cory and Alexei Panshin)
  • The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence (1989, with Cory Panshin)

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personal data
SURNAME Panshin, Alexei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Panshin, Alexis Adams (real name); Adams, Louis JA (pen name); Panshin, Alex (alternative spelling); Panshin, A. (alternative spelling); Weems, R. Monroe (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer and critic
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Lansing , Michigan