Bruce McAllister

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Bruce Hugh McAllister (born on 17th October 1946 in Baltimore , Maryland ) is an American science fiction - and fantasy - author .

Life

McAllister is the son of James Addams McAllister, a professor of physics and electronics, and Bernice, nee Lyons, professor of social sciences . He studied at Claremont Men's College , where he graduated in 1969, and at the University of California , Irvine , where he graduated with a master's in 1971 . In 1970 he married Caroline Reid, with whom he has a daughter and a son. From 1971 he was a lecturer at the University of Redlands , where he was professor of English from 1983 until his retirement in 1997. He has also worked as the editor of several magazines, as the editor of a number of SF anthologies , and as a lecturer and coach for creative writing .

He published his first SF story The Faces Outside in 1963 at the age of 16 in Worlds of If . Since then he has mainly written short stories, a selection of which appeared in 2007 in The Girl Who Loved Animals and Other Stories . His first novel Humanity Prime (1971) expanded The Faces Outside and was also his master's thesis in creative writing. It is about human colonists of the planet Prime, who after 3000 years have adapted strongly to life in water and are now faced with two challenges, namely an alien invasion on the one hand and a conflict with the increasingly demented cyborg ship that they are on brought the planet. His second novel, Dream Baby (1989), is about a nurse who was gifted with precognition during the Vietnam War and who foresaw the death of soldiers in her dreams. The novel The Village Sang to the Sea , published in 2013, was created as a fix-up from a series of short stories in which an American boy and his family came to a northern Italian fishing village during the Cold War , which, as it turns out, is not a normal village . A dense, magical atmosphere unfolds that absorbs the young protagonist who, in fantastic encounters, moves towards a border crossing.

Although he is a recognized and respected author for the quality of his work, he has been denied broad reception. He was also nominated several times for the major awards (2 times for the Hugo , once for the Nebula Award and 7 times for the Locus Award ), but was never among the winners. John Clute attributes this to the fact that McAllister published only a few novels and these publications were also unfavorably constellated. The first novel appeared in the series of Ace Specials , which was soon to be discontinued , the second was not very marketable at the time due to the subject matter Short stories appeared widely and a first collection did not come out until 2007.

bibliography

Lerici (short story series)
  • The Seventh Daughter (2004)
  • Poison (2007)
  • Heart of Hearts (2010)
  • The Woman Who Waited Forever (2010)
  • The Bleeding Child (2012, also as The Crying Child )
  • Canticle of the Animals (2013, also as Canticle of the Beasts )
  • The Village Sang to the Sea: A Memoir of Magic (2013, novel)
Novels
  • Humanity Prime (1971)
  • Dream Baby (1989)
collection
  • The Girl Who Loved Animals and Other Stories (2007)
Short stories
  • The Faces Outside (1963)
  • We Hunters of Men (1965)
  • Gods of the Dark and Light (1967)
  • Without a Doubt Dream (1968)
  • Prime-Time Teaser (1968)
  • Benji's Pencil (1969)
  • The Man Inside (1969)
  • The Big Boy (1969)
  • Autohuman 14 (1969)
  • Life Matter (1969)
  • And So Say All of Us (1969)
    • German: Hear the voices. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 38. Ullstein (Ullstein 2000 # 71 (3060)), 1974, ISBN 3-548-03060-2 .
  • After the Bomb Cliches (1969)
  • E Pluribus Solo (1970)
  • Mother of Pearl (1970)
  • The Warmest Memory (1970)
  • World of the Wars (1971)
  • Ecce Femina! (1972)
    • German: Herrenjagd. In: Wulf Bergner (Ed.): One day in Suburbia. Heyne SF&F # 3353, 1973.
  • Triangle (1972)
  • The Arrangement (1973)
  • The Boy (1976)
  • Victor (1977)
    • German: Victor. In: Manfred Kluge (ed.): Catapult to the stars. Heyne SF&F # 3623, 1978, ISBN 3-453-30533-7 .
  • Missionary Work (1978)
  • Their Immortal Hearts (1980)
  • What He Wore for Them (1980)
    • German: ... and took shape in people for them. In: Manfred Kluge (Ed.): Terrarium. Heyne SF&F # 3931, 1982, ISBN 3-453-30854-9 .
  • When the Fathers Go (1982)
    • German: When father goes on a trip. In: Terry Carr (ed.): The most beautiful science fiction stories of the year: Volume 3. Heyne SF&F # 4165, 1985, ISBN 3-453-31123-X .
  • The Ark (1985)
  • Dream Baby (1987)
    • German: Traumbaby. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazin 32nd episode. Heyne SF&F # 4536, 1988, ISBN 3-453-03126-1 .
    • German: Dream Baby. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Johann Sebastian Bach Memorial Barbecue. Heyne SF&F # 4697, 1990, ISBN 3-453-04279-4 .
  • Kingdom Come (1987)
  • Songs from a Far Country (1988)
  • The Girl Who Loved Animals (1988)
  • Little Boy Blue (1989)
  • Angels (1990)
  • Sister Moon (1992)
  • Cottage (1993)
  • Moving On (1993)
  • Southpaw (1993)
  • Assassin (1994)
  • Captain China (1996)
  • Mary (2005)
  • Water Angel (2005)
  • Hero, the Movie (2005)
  • Spell (2005)
  • Stu (2005)
  • Ragazzo (2006)
  • The Boy in Zaquitos (2006)
  • Kin (2006)
  • Cold War (2006)
  • The Passion: a Western (2006)
  • His Wife (2007)
  • The Lion (2007)
  • Hit (2008)
  • Johnny (2009)
  • Blue Fire (2010)
  • The Courtship of the Queen (2010)
  • Demon (2011)
  • The Messenger (2011)
  • Going Home (2012, with Barry N. Malzberg)
  • Free Range (2012)
  • Stamps (2012)
  • Child of the Gods (2013)
  • Don't Ask (2013, with WS Adams)
  • The Witch Moth (2014)
  • La Signora (2014)
  • Madonna (2015)
  • Dog (2015)
  • Emily (2015)
  • My Father's Crab (2015)
  • DreamPet (2015)
  • Bringing Them Back (2016)
  • Stealing God (2016)
  • Killer (2016)
  • The Blue House (2016)
  • A Beautiful Day (2016)
  • The Fall of Saigon (2017, with Ben McAllister and Andreas Neumann)
  • This Is for You (2017)
  • The Blue Unicorn (2017)
  • Pitch (2017, with Patrick Smith)
  • Ink (2017)
  • How to Take Pictures of Alpha Centauri Children (2018)
  • Frog Happy (2018)

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personal data
SURNAME McAllister, Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McAllister, Bruce Hugh (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction and fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland