Chris Scott (Author)

Chris Scott (* 1945 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian writer who has emerged as a crime writer and writer of science fiction novels about historical alternative worlds.

Life

Little is known about his education and his actual life. In the early 1970s he emerged as the author of audio books and radio plays for CBC / Radio-Canada , in which problems of philosophy and psychology were brought closer to younger listeners in a classical dialogue. Ditto-people raised the interesting possibility of cloning as early as 1971 and posed the hypothetical question of what could be achieved with a duplicate of Leonardo da Vinci with a kind of eternal life for the benefit of mankind. Dreams and dreamers (1971 and 1975) contrasted the interpretations of Sigmund Freud, for example, with the work of the sleep laboratories of the time with the help of dream representations . These works were also published in the United States .

Scott later turned to the description of alternative historical developments or biographical sketches. In Antichthon (1982), published three years later under the title The Heretic in England, Scott described the life and trials of Giordano Bruno . This book was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English fiction in 1982 . With his next work, a crime story about Jack the Ripper , Jack (1988), Scott achieved his greatest success when the novel won the Arthur Ellis Award in 1989 .

In 1990/91 Scott worked as writer-in-residence at the Cumberland Township Public Library, Ottawa , where he taught creative writing courses for adults and children.

His publications include numerous reviews for Books in Canada , The Toronto Star , The Ottawa Citizen , The Montreal Gazette, and The Globe & Mail . His review of Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 was the cover story of the November 9, 2002 issue of The Globe & Mail . The review of Jeremy Bernstein's Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma made up The Globe's book page cover story of April 17, 2004.

Chris Scott has lived on St. Joseph Island , Ontario since 1996 .

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Audiobooks:

• Ditto people . Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. CBC Learning Systems. 1971
• Dreams and dreamers . North Hollywood, CA: Center for Cassette Studies 1975 (1st ed. 1971)

Novels:

• Bartleby; a novel . Anansi, Toronto 1971
• To catch a spy . Viking Press, New York 1978
• Antichthon . Concordia University 1982
• Hitler's bomb . Stein and Day, New York 1983
• The heretic . Quarter Books, London 1985 (1982)
• Jack . Macmillan of Canada, Toronto 1988

Awards

• 1989: Arthur Ellis Award for Jack

literature

• William Fenton: Re-writing the past: history and origin in Howard O'Hagan, Jack Hodgins, George Bowering and Chris Scott . Bulzoni, Rome 1988.

Individual evidence

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