Doris Piserchia

Doris Elaine Piserchia (born October 11, 1928 in Fairmont , West Virginia ) is an American science fiction writer.

Life

Piserchia is the daughter of Dewey Leslie Summers and Viola Violet, née Crihfield. She studied at Fairmont State College in Fairmont , West Virginia, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1950 . After graduating, she went to the US Navy , where she retired in 1954 with the rank of lieutenant. In 1953 she married Joseph John Piserchia and with him three daughters and two sons (born 1954, 1957, 1958, 1961 and 1962). From 1954 she was a housewife. From 1963 to 1965 she studied psychology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City .

A first SF story Rocket of Gehenna appeared in Fantastic Stories in 1966 , followed by a dozen short stories. Another story, The Residents of Kingston , was to appear in the never-released third Dangerous Vision anthology by Harlan Ellison . From 1973 she began to write SF novels, the first two were Mister Justice (1973, German as Mister Justice , 1975) and Star Rider (1974, German as Sternenreiter , 1980), who at the Locus Awards 1975 on the 18th. Place came. Under the pseudonym Curt Selby, she wrote the vampire novels Blood County (1981) and I, Zombie (1982), in which the deceased are made into laborless slaves by means of implants.

bibliography

Novels

• Mister Justice (1973)
  • German: Mister Justice. Translated by Leni Sobez. Bastei Lübbe # 21071, 1975, ISBN 3-404-00367-5 .
• Star Rider (1974)
  • German: Sternenreiter. Translated by Hilde Linnert. Heyne SF&F # 3738, 1980, ISBN 3-453-30641-4 .
• A Billion Days of Earth (1976)
• Earthchild (1977)
• Spaceling (1978)
• The Spinner (1980)
• The Fluger (1980)
• Doomtime (1981)
• Blood County (1981, as Curt Selby)
• Earth in Twilight (1981)
• The Dimensioneers (1982)
• I, Zombie (1982, as Curt Selby)
• The Deadly Sky (1983)

Short stories

• Rocket To Gehenna (1966)
• Sheltering Dream (1972)
  • German: Protective dream. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 58. Ullstein 2000 # 111 (3222), 1976, ISBN 3-548-03222-2 .
• Last Train from Earth (1972)
• Empty Eden (1972)
• Half the Kingdom (1973)
• Quarantine (1973)
  • German: quarantine. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 75. Ullstein 2000 # 150 (3579), 1979, ISBN 3-548-03579-5 .
• Unbiased God (1973)
• Idio (1974)
• Limited Accommodations (1974)
• Naked and Afraid I Go (1974)
• Pale Hands (1974)
• A Typical Day (1974)
  • German: An ordinary day. In: Josh Pachter (ed.): Top Science Fiction: Part Two. Heyne SF&F # 4517, 1988, ISBN 3-453-02774-4 .
• Substance and Shadow (1974)
• Nature's Children (1974)
• A Brilliant Curiosity (1975)
• Deathrights Deferred (1976)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 323 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. 788 f.
• John Clute : Piserchia, Doris. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
• Don D'Ammassa : Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Facts On File, New York 2005, ISBN 0-8160-5924-1 , p. 288.
• Don D'Ammassa: Piserchia, Doris (Elaine) . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 626 f.
• Joanna Pataki, Tom Moody: The Doris Piserchia Website: Interview with the Author . 2000.
• Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A Checklist, 1700-1974 with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , p. 1034.
• Raymond H. Thompson: Piserchia, Doris . In: James Gunn : The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Viking, New York et al. a. 1988, ISBN 0-670-81041-X , p. 352.
• Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , pp. 

Web links

• Doris Piserchia in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Doris Piserchia in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Works by and about Doris Piserchia at Open Library
• Doris Piserchia in Fantastic Fiction (English)
• The Doris Piserchia Website (accessed June 24, 2018)