F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre

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Fergus (also Feargus ) Gwynplaine MacIntyre (* 1948 in Perthshire , Scotland , † June 25, 2010 in Brooklyn , New York City ) nicknamed Froggy , was a British journalist , author , poet and illustrator .

biography

Little is known about MacIntyte's background, early life, or family. Throughout his life he told various stories about his family, his place of birth and his childhood that remain unproven. MacIntyre often told people that he was an orphan from a Scottish family and raised in an Australian orphanage and child labor camp. He used the aliases Paul Grant Jeffery, Timothy / Tim C. Allen, Oleg V. Bredikhine and the nickname Froggy. However, a teenage acquaintance claimed that young MacIntyre spoke at the time with a clear New York accent from Long Island or Queens and raised questions about his claims of foreign origin. Another acquaintance, who knew MacIntyre in his twenties, remembered that he still spoke with an American accent and used the name Jeremy MacIntyre. An acquaintance recalls that MacIntyre cited as the reason for the "Gwynplaine" in his name the film The Man Who Laughs, based on the novel L'Homme qui rit by Victor Hugo , in which the title character Gwynplaine had a permanent smile that was surgical in being Face was carved. MacIntyre stated that he identified with Gwynplaine and therefore chose the name as part of his own.

MacIntyre's writings include the science fiction novel The Woman Between the Worlds and his anthology of verse and humor, MacIntyre's Improbable Bestiary . MacIntyre is known to have written or co-written several other books as an uncredited ghostwriter , including at least one novel in the Tom Swift IV series , The DNA Disaster , under the publisher's pseudonym Victor Appleton, but with MacIntyre's name on the confirmation page.

On June 25, 2010, MacIntyre set fire to his Brooklyn apartment and his body was later found there.

Create

In the 1970s, MacIntyre worked for a pornographic novel publisher in Manhattan. Employees were paid $ 175 a week to produce an entire pornographic novel and a compilation-sized chapter for a pornographic book allegedly drawn from the cases of a Dr. Lamb was put together.

Although MacIntyre has published many nonfiction and literature professionally, he is best known as a writer of the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery genres. Many of his short stories have been featured in Weird Tales , Analog , Asimov's Science Fiction , Amazing Stories , Absolute Magnitude , Interzone , The Strand Magazine and numerous anthologies such as Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year # 10 , Michael Reaves and John Pelan's Mystery / Horror Anthology Shadows Over Baker Street , James Robert Smith and Stephen Mark Rainey's horror anthology Evermore , and Stephen Joness The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror .

For Mike Ashley's The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (1995) MacIntyre wrote the short story Death in the Dawntime , a mystery about the locked room in Australia around 35,000 BC. BC, which editor Mike Ashley described as the historical Whodunit that was played the furthest in the past .

A characteristic of MacIntyre's writings, both fiction and non-fiction, is his penchant for coining new words and reviving obscure words. The voice of authority William Safire recognized MacIntyre neologism of "Clintonym" and quoted his historical etymological research.

MacIntyre's illustration of Ron Goulart's story The Robot Who Came to Dinner in the July – August 2002 Analog edition.

In addition to publishing science fiction in analog , MacIntyre also contributed to the magazine as an artist, illustrating his own stories and one of Ron Goulart's .

MacIntyre wrote a significant number of book reviews for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction . In the July 2003 issue of this magazine, MacIntyre mentioned that he was related to the wife of Scottish author Eric Linklater . This admission is significant given that MacIntyre discovered (in interviews and at science fiction conventions) that he was estranged from and disregarded his abusive family.

He had legally changed his name. "Fergus MacIntyre" was therefore his legal name, but not his maiden name. He had confirmed that he had chosen the name after the protagonist from Victor Hugo's novel The Man Who Laughs .

MacIntyre claimed to have contributed extensive script material to a 2006 documentary about actress Theda Bara . He claimed his contributions included the title of the film, The Woman with the Hungry Eyes : and an interview he had with writer Fritz Leiber . He is only listed in the "Special Thanks" section of the credits. MacIntyre claimed to have been contractually prevented from being mentioned as a screenwriter.

Violation of the law

In 2000, MacIntyre was arrested after a neighbor said he taped her to a chair, shaved her head, and painted her black. He later pleaded guilty to abuse on one minor case.

death

In the months leading up to his death, MacIntyre became increasingly depressed and desperate. He sent mass emails to friends saying he was plagued by his childhood (he would describe his family as "deeply evil people") and referring to suicide. He had also lost his night job as a printer and claimed to have health problems including synesthesia . One day before his death, MacIntyre published a review of the 1927 German science fiction film Metropolis with the title "My favorite film, my last review" on the IMDb.

On June 24, 2010, police were called at MacIntyre's Bensonhurst apartment after a friend received a mass email from MacIntyre suggesting a suicide. Six police officers forcibly removed MacIntyre from the apartment when he shouted that he was going to die and "take everyone in the building away". He was taken to Coney Island Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and released hours later. MacIntyre returned to his apartment and sent out an angry mass email reprimanding the person who had called the police. At around 9:30 a.m. on June 25, MacIntyre, a long-time hoarder , set the contents of his apartment on fire. The fire quickly devoured the building and it took more than an hour for the 60 firefighters to put it out. MacIntyre's body was later found among the burned rubble. He was the only death, all other residents were evacuated alive. After his death, MacIntyre's brother came forward and stated that MacIntyre's life story had indeed been made up, but did not provide any details about his real history or the reasons for his pretenses.

bibliography

novel

  • The Woman Between the Worlds , Dell 1994

Story collections

  • MacIntyre's Improbable Bestiary , Wildside Press / Zadok Allen 2001

Short stories

  • For Cheddar or Worse , 1980
  • Martian Walkabout , 1980
    • The man trial , 1981
  • Isle Be Seeing You , 1982
  • The Prisoner of Gravity , 1984
  • The Man Who Split in Twain , 1986
  • The Ones Who Turn Invisible , 1988
  • The Minds Who Jumped , 1995
  • Reliquary , 1996
  • Teeny-Tiny Techno-Tactics , 1997
  • Mother-of-All , 1997
  • The Enigma of the Warwickshire Vortex , 1997
  • Beddy-Bye , 1998
  • The Unpleasantness at the Baloney Club , 1998
  • An Actor Prepares , 1999
  • The Adventure of Exham Priory , 2003
  • Tableaux , 2005
  • Sundowner Shelia , 2006
  • The Clockwork Horror , 2006
  • Another Fine Messiah , 2010
  • World Without End , 2010
  • Hell to Pay , 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christopher Fowler: Invisible Ink: No 79 - Fergus Gwynplaine MacIntyre . In: The Independent , May 29, 2011. Retrieved July 10, 2020. 
  2. ↑ a b c d Corey Kilgannon: Memories of the Enigmatic Froggy . In: The New York Times , September 15, 2010. Retrieved July 10, 2020. 
  3. ^ A b c Kilgannon, Corey (September 10, 2010). Froggy's last story. The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2020
  4. ^ Kilgannon, Corey (September 10, 2010). Fiery ending for an eccentric hermit. The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2020
  5. ^ A b Jeff Goodman: My Friend Froggy . In: Chris Mikul (Ed.): Biblio-Curiosa: Unusual Writers / Strange Books . No. 3, Haymarket, Australia, 2012, pp. 14-24.
  6. ↑ Extract from the isfdb
  7. ↑ Ryan Lavis, "Depressed Brooklyn man kills himself by setting fire to his apartment," New York Daily News June 26, 2010, state his age at 59. Page currently not available in the EU
  8. ^ [1] Locus Magazin ( Memento from March 5th, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Charles Prepolec: Shadows Over Baker Street - Sherlock Holmes & Lovecraft - Reviewed . Bakerstreetdozen.com. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  10. ↑ Mike Ashley : The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives . Robinson Publishing, London 1995, ISBN 1-85487-406-3 , p. 3.
  11. ^ William Safire: THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 12-02-01: ON LANGUAGE; Clintonyms . In: The New York Times , December 2, 2001, p. 48. Retrieved July 15, 2020. 
  12. ^ William Safire: The right word in the right place at the right time: wit and wisdom from the popular "On language" column in The New York Times magazine . Simon and Schuster, 2004, ISBN 0-7432-4244-0 , p. 48 (accessed July 15, 2020). Quote: "The most memorable Clintonism or Clintonym (a coinage of F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre) ..."
  13. ^ William Safire: The right word in the right place at the right time: wit and wisdom from the popular "On language" column in The New York Times magazine . Simon and Schuster, 2004, ISBN 0-7432-4244-0 , p. 379 (accessed July 15, 2020).
  14. ^ William Safire: ON LANGUAGE; Vogue Word Watch . In: The New York Times , July 19, 2009, p. 14. Retrieved July 15, 2020. 
  15. ^ Rodger Turner, Webmaster: Fantasy and Science Fiction Departments: Curiosities . Sfsite.com. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  16. ^ A b F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre's Alleged FAQ . Sff.net. Retrieved on April 17, 2009 Template: dead link /! ... nourl ( page no longer available )
  17. ↑ McIntyre in Special Thanks
  18. ↑ Metropolis (1927): My favorite film, my last review (my favorite film, my last review) . Internet Movie Database.

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personal data
SURNAME MacIntyre, F. Gwynplaine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Froggy; MacIntyre, Fergus Gwynplaine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Perthshire
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 2010
Place of death New York City