Andrew Stephenson (Author)

Andrew Michael Stephenson (born October 8, 1946 in Maracaibo , Venezuela ) is a British science fiction writer and illustrator.

Life

Stephenson came to England at a young age and attended the private St Aubyns School in Rottingdean, East Sussex from 1956 to 1960 , then the Stowe School in Stowe , Buckinghamshire until 1965 . He then studied electrical engineering and electronics at City University in London , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1969. Until 1976 he worked as a circuit designer at Plessey Telecommunications Research in Taplow , Buckinghamshire. From 1976 to 1978 he was the European Representative of the Science Fiction Writers of America .

In 1971 he published his first SF short story Holding Action in Astounding magazine . The novel Nightwatch followed in 1977, which was also translated into German as Nachtwache . It is about the countermeasures against a feared alien invasion, which then turns out to be friendly contact. His second novel The Wall of Years (1979) is about a war between parallel worlds . He also wrote the script for the four-volume graphic novel Waterloo Sunset (2004-2005).

His illustrations have appeared in the SF magazines Galaxy , SF Digest and Vector .

bibliography

Novels

• Nightwatch (1977)
  • German: Night watch. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller # 22023, 1980, ISBN 3-404-22023-4 .
• The Wall of Years (1979)

Short stories

• Holding Action (1971)
• Great Hunter (1972)
• The Giant Killers (1976)
• The Pact (1997)

Comic

• with Trevor Goring: Waterloo Sunset (2004-2005)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 394 f.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 935.
• John Clute , David Langford : Stephenson, Andrew M. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated August 12, 2018.
• James Gunn : Stephenson, Andrew M (ichael) . In: (ders.): The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Viking, New York et al. a. 1988, ISBN 0-670-81041-X , p. 445.
• David Wingrove: Stephenson, Andrew M (ichael) . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 764 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Andrew Stephenson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Andrew Stephenson in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Andrew Stephenson at Open Library