David Gerrold

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David Gerrold (* 24. January 1944 in Chicago as Jerrold David Freedman ) is an American screenwriter and author of fantasy - and science fiction novels.

Life

Gerrold is the son of Louis Friedman and Johanna, nee Fleischer. After attending Los Angeles Valley Junior College , he studied at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and at California State University, Northridge , where he graduated in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in theater studies.

His most famous work is also the first that he ever sold, namely the script for the spaceship Enterprise episode The Trouble with Tribbles (German "Do you know Tribbles?"). After completing his studies, Gerrold wanted to become a screenwriter. At that time, the first season of Star Trek was running , ideas were sought for the second season and Gerrold submitted several treatments , of which The Trouble with Tribbles was finally accepted. It turned out to be one of the best-known and most popular episodes, and the actors also appreciated the comical story of the uncontrollably and explosively multiplying cute fur animals in a spaceship. William Shatner was given the opportunity to demonstrate his comic talent for the first time.

When Star Trek began broadcasting for the 30th time in September 1996, the episode Trials and Tribbles, originally intended to kick off the fifth season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , was celebrated on this occasion ") produced. In it, main characters from Deep Space Nine interact with those from Starship Enterprise , including Kirk and Spock . For the production of the episode, among other things, copies of the backdrops were faithfully reproduced, uniforms were tailored and models of spaceships and stations were built. In reused scenes from both Do You Know Tribbles? as well as from A Parallel Universe , the Deep Space Nine figures were inserted using digital image processing .

In the following years and decades Gerrold continued to work as a screenwriter and story editor for television series, especially for the series Land of the Lost , where he wrote the screenplay for five episodes and was story editor for 17 episodes , and for the series The Biskitts , on which he wrote the story for 13 episodes.

His most extensive work is the four-volume series Chtorr Wars , in which the earth is inundated by the Chtorrans , non-terrestrial forms of life from a different ecology. The stories are written from the point of view of the protagonist Jim McCarthy. After the publication of volume 2 "Tag der Verdammnis" in Germany, Gerrold changed the publisher, and the new publisher brought out the entire series again in the new, unabridged version, whereby Heyne lost the rights. That is why Zorn der Rache never appeared in German. On request, Heyne announced that it will probably never appear in German either. There is also a GURPS version of the series.

Gerrold's most successful work is the short story The Martian Child , published in 1994 , which won the Hugo Award in 1995 . Nebula Award and Locus Award received three of the most prestigious awards in science fiction. In 2002 Gerrolds presented a version of the novel and in 2007 it was filmed under the title Martian Child (German Mein Kind vom Mars ) by Menno Meyjes with John Cusack .

In 1972, Gerrold was the first to use the term “ computer virus ” in the series about the GOD machine ( When Harlie Was One , 1972) , but not in the current sense.

Awards

Works

Series

Star wolf
  • Yesterday's Children (1972)
  • Yesterday's Children (1980, revised)
  • 1 Voyage of the Star Wolf (1990)
  • 2 The Middle of Nowhere (1995)
  • 3 Blood and Fire (2004)
  • Tales of the Star Wolf (2004, collective edition from 1–3)
Harlie
  • Oracle For a White Rabbit (short story, 1969)
  • The God Machine (short story, 1970)
  • Trouble with GOD (short story, 1972)
  • For GOD's Sake (short story, 1972)
  • When Harlie Was One (1972, novel, revised as When Harlie Was One Release 2.0 , 1988)
Star Trek
The War against the Chtorr
  • 1 A Matter for Men (1983)
  • 2 A Day for Damnation (1984)
  • 3 A Rage For Revenge (1989)
  • 4 A Season for Slaughter (1993)
  • 5 Method for Madness (not published, excerpt 2015 in Entanglements and Terrors )
  • 6 A Time for Treason (not published)
  • The War Against the Chtorr: Invasion (1984, collective edition of # 1 and # 2)
  • Enterprise Fish (short story, 2009)
Trackers
  • Under the Eye of God (1993)
  • A Covenant of Justice (1994)
The dingilliad
  • Jumping off the Planet (2000)
  • Bouncing off the Moon (2001)
  • Leaping to the Stars (2002)

Novels

Story collections

  • With a Finger in My I (1972)
  • Alternate Gerrolds (2005)
  • The Involuntary Human (2007)
  • Digging in Gehenna / Riding Janis (2012)
  • A Promise of Stars (2014)
  • Sampler 2015 (2015)
  • Entanglements and Terrors (2015)
  • Little Horrors (2016)

Short stories

  • Love Story in Three Acts (1970)
    • German: Love Story in three acts (1973)
  • Afternoon with a Dead Bus (1971)
  • How We Saved the Human Race (1972)
  • With a Finger in My I (1972)
  • All of Them Were Empty (1972)
  • Battle Hum and the Boje (1972)
  • In the Deadlands (1972)
  • The Crystal Castle (1972)
  • Yarst! (1972)
  • An Infinity of Loving (1973)
  • Othuum, Chapter Two: Out of the Darkness (1974)
  • Skinflowers (1974)
  • Death Beast (1978)
  • Hellhole (1979)
  • The Trouble with Tribbles (1981)
  • Shaggy Dog Story (1986)
  • The Nolacon Visitation (1988, with numerous other authors)
  • The Kennedy Enterprise (1992)
  • The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson (1992)
  • A Wish for Smish (1992)
  • Bauble (1993)
  • Rex (1993)
  • The Firebringers (1993)
  • The Ghost of Christmas Sideways (1993)
  • Believers (1993)
  • Franz Kafka, superhero! (1994)
  • The Martian Child (1994)
  • Satan Claus (1994, also as ... And Eight Rabid Pigs )
  • The Seminar from Hell (1994)
  • What Goes Around (1994)
  • The Fan Who Molded Himself (1995)
  • The Spell (1995)
  • The Emperor Redux (1996)
  • The Feathered Mastodon (1997)
  • The Green Man (2000)
  • Riding Janis (2003)
  • Digging in Gehenna (2003)
  • Dancer in the Dark (2004)
  • King Kong: Behind the Scenes (2005)
  • Mortal Dance (2005)
  • In the Quake Zone (2005)
  • Chester (2005)
  • The Diamond Sky (2005)
  • King Kong: The Unanswered Questions (2005)
  • A Quantum Bit Exists In Two States Simultaneously: On (2005)
  • A Quantum Bit Exists In Two States Simultaneously: Off (2005)
  • Report from the Near Future: Crystallization (2006)
  • Turtledome (2006)
  • Jellyfish (2007, with Mike Resnick)
  • Blood and Fire (2007)
  • Chess with a Dragon (2007)
  • Interlude # 1– # 6: Solomon Short (2007)
  • It Needs Salt (2007)
  • Pickled Mongoose (2007)
  • The Baby Cooper Dollar Bill (2007)
  • The Strange Death of Orson Welles (2007)
  • The Strange Disappearance of David Gerrold (2007)
  • The Equally Strange Reappearance of David Gerrold (2007)
  • Laser-Mirror-Starweb Outline (2008)
  • Spiderweb (2008)
  • Why There Are No Type-C Civilizations (2008, with Marvin Minsky )
  • Ganny Knits a Spaceship (2009)
  • Nowhere Man (2009)
  • Sales of a Deathman (2010)
  • F&SF Mailbag (2010)
  • Time Capsule 2120: Actual Comments from Lunar Tourists (2010, also as Actual Comments from Lunar Tourists , 2014)
  • Night Train to Paris (2013)
  • The Gathering (2013)
  • The Honker Sting by David Gerrold (2013)
  • Crystalization (2014)
  • The Thing in the Back Yard (2014)
  • The Old Science Fiction Writer (2014)
  • From the Man Who Folded Himself (2015)
  • From the Voyage of the Star Wolf (2015)
  • From When HARLIE Was One (2015)
  • Entanglements (2015)
  • A Mild Case of Death (2015)
  • The Great Pan American Airship Mystery, or, Why I Murdered Robert Benchley (2015)
  • ... Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: The Chairman Dances (2015)
  • Monsieur (2015)
  • Finding Monstro (2015)
  • The Bag Lady (2015)
  • The Great Milo (2016)
  • The White Piano (2016)
  • The Thing on the Shelf (2016)
  • A Brief Explanation of How Budapest Became the Taco Capital of the World (2016)
  • The Dunsmuir Horror (2016)
  • The Further Adventures of Mr. Costello (2016)
  • The Trouble with Hairy (2016)
  • The Fabulous Marble (2017)
  • The Patient Dragon (2017)
  • Endless City (2018)

Non-fiction

  • Worlds of Wonder: How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (1991)
  • Fatal Distractions: 87 of the Very Best Ways to Get Beaten, Eaten, Maimed, and Mauled on Your Pc / Book and Cd-Rom (1994)
  • Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix (2003, with Glenn Yeffeth)
Star Trek
  • The World of Star Trek (1973, expanded new edition 1984)
  • The Trouble with Tribbles: The Complete Story of One of Star Trek's Most Popular Episodes (1973, also as The Trouble with Tribbles: The Birth, Sale and Final Production of One Episodes , 1976)
  • Boarding the Enterprise: Transporters, Tribbles, and the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek (2006, with Robert J. Sawyer )

Scripts

Star Trek (TV series)
  • I, Mudd (1967, revised)
  • The Trouble with Tribbles (1967)
  • The Cloud Minders (1969)
Star Trek: The Animated Series (TV series)
  • More Trouble with Tribbles (1973)
  • BEM (1974)
Land of the Lost (TV series, 1974)
  • CHA-KA
  • The Sleestak God
  • Possession
  • Circle
  • Hurricane
Logan's Run (TV series)
  • Man Out of Time (1977, as Noah Ward).
The Biskitts (TV series, 1983)
  • Turnaround Hound / A Dark and Stormy Knight (1983)
  • The Swamp Monster (1983)
  • The Moonpond / Fly Me to the Goon (1983)
  • The Trojan Biskitt / Snatched from Scratch (1983)
  • The Golden Biskitt / The Bone in the Stone (1983)
  • The Biskitt Who Cried Wolf / Shecky's Last Laugh (1983)
  • Spinner's Surprise / Two Leagues Under the Pond (1983)
  • Raiders of the Lost Bark / The Princess and the Plea (1983)
  • Moving Day / A Biskitt Halloween (1983)
  • Dogfoot / Up to His Old Tricks (1983)
  • Belling the Wild Cat / King Max's War (1983)
  • As the Worm Turns / Trouble in the Tunnel (1983)
  • Around the Swamp in a Daze / Rogue Biskitt (1983)
Tales from the Darkside (TV series, 1985)
  • Levitation
  • If the Shoes Fit ... (1984, as Noah Ward)
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
  • A Saucer of Loneliness (1986)
  • A Day in Beaumont (1986)
The Real Ghostbusters (TV series)
  • The Hole in the Wall Gang (1987)
  • Adventures in Slime and Space (1987)
Superboy (TV series)
  • Test of Time (1990)
Babylon 5 (TV series)
  • Believers (1994)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV series)
  • Trials and Tribbles (1996, uses material from The Trouble with Tribbles )
Sliders (TV series)
  • New Gods for Old (1999)
Star Trek: New Voyages ( fanfiction series)
  • Origins: The Protracted Man (unrealized)
  • Blood and Fire: Part One (2008)
  • Blood and Fire: Part Two (2009)
Martian Child (film)

2007 film based on Gerrold's novel, written by Seth Bass and Jonathan Tolins.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Gerrold / Biography in the Internet Movie Database , accessed February 28, 2018.
  2. ↑ Terry J. Erdmann, Paula M. Block: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion. Pocket Books, New York 2000, ISBN 0-671-50106-2 , pp. 360, 383 ff.
  3. ↑ Trials and Tribble-ations , in: TV.com, accessed February 28, 2018.
  4. ^ Eugene H. Spafford: Computer viruses as artificial life. In: Artificial life. Vol. 1, No. 3 (1994), doi : 10.1162 / artl.1994.1.3.249 , p. 250 ( preprint-PDF ).
personal data
SURNAME Gerrold, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freedman, Jerrold David (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and writer of fantasy and science fiction novels
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago