Chris Boyce

Chris Boyce (born September 12, 1943 in Glasgow ; died June 29, 1999 there ) was a Scottish science fiction writer.

Life

Boyce was a Scottish librarian who published some science fiction short stories from the mid-1960s and published a first science fiction novel in 1975. He won a prize advertised by the Sunday Times and the Victor Gollancz Verlag for the best novel by an SF amateur. The near future novel Brainfix (1980) dealt with social unrest caused by an unprecedented rise in the number of unemployed in Britain to over three million. The book was published in 1980 during the Thatcher era and shortly afterwards the unemployment figure hit four million without the British government having to use nerve gas to fight rioting as in the book .

With his wife Angela and Alasdair Gray he founded the publishing house Dog & Bone in 1990 , which also published his thriller Blooding Mister Naylor .

Boyce was an active member of ASTRA ( Association in Scotland to Research into Astronautics ). The book Extraterrestrial Encounter , published in 1979, deals with questions of xenobiology and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

bibliography

Novels

• Catchworld (1975)
• Brainfix (1980)
• Blooding Mister Naylor (1990)

Short stories

1966:

• George (in: Impulse, June 1966 )
• The Rig (in: SF Impulse, September 1966 )

1967:

• Mantis (in: SF Impulse, January 1967 )
  • German: mantis. In: Herbert W. Franke (Ed.): Continuum 5. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31155, 1987, ISBN 3-548-31155-5 .

1977:

• You no longer cry (1977, in: Herbert W. Franke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story Reader 8 )
• Nobody Cries Any More (1977)
  • German: You don't cry anymore. In: Herbert W. Franke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story Reader 8. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3549, 1977, ISBN 3-453-30443-8 .

1978:

• Sangraal (1978)
  • German: The Holy Grail. In: Herbert W. Franke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story Reader 10. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3602, 1978, ISBN 3-453-30509-4 .

1988:

• Birthplace (in: Aboriginal Science Fiction, March-April 1988 )

Non-fiction

• Extraterrestrial Encounter: A Personal Perspective (1979)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 53.
• John Clute : Boyce, Chris. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.

Web links

• Chris Boyce in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Chris Boyce in Fantastic Fiction (English)
• Chris Boyce in Fancyclopedia 3 (English)
• Chris Boyce in the Bibliography of German Science Fiction ( Stories )
• Literature by and about Chris Boyce in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Works by and about Chris Boyce at Open Library
• ET Presence ( Memento of September 27, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) (website by Chris Boyce, English)
• RIP Chris Boyce ( David Langford : Ansible 144, July 1999, accessed November 22, 2017)
• Chris Boyce ( memento of March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (obituary, English)