Graham Joyce

Graham Joyce (2009)

Graham Joyce (born October 22, 1954 in Keresley , West Midlands , † September 9, 2014 in Leicester ) was a British science fiction, fantasy and horror writer .

Life

Graham Joyce was born in 1954 and grew up near Coventry . After studying in Leicester , he first worked as a teacher and then became a writer. Since 1991 he has written short stories and several fantasy novels. He lived with his family in Leicester and taught creative writing at Nottingham Trent University .

Most recently, Joyce worked for the American game developer Id Software on the plot of the horror first- person shooter Doom .

Joyce won the British Fantasy Award for best novel six times (for Dark Sister , Requiem , The Tooth Fairy , Indigo , Some Kind of Fairy Tale and Memoirs of a Master Forger , which he published under the pseudonym William Heaney) and once for World Fantasy Award (for The Facts of Life ) presented.

He died on September 9, 2014 of complications from a lymphoma diagnosed in 2013 .

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The Web

Joyce wrote the fourth volume for the twelve-part youth book series The Web .

Single novels

• Dreamside , 1991

  Traumland , Bastei-Lübbe, 1996, ISBN 3-404-13824-4

• Dark Sister , 1992

  Bella's diary , Bastei-Lübbe, 1994, ISBN 3-404-13508-3

• House of Lost Dreams , 1993

  House of Lost Dreams , Bastei-Lübbe, 1995, ISBN 3-404-13615-2

• Requiem , 1995

  Requiem , Bastei-Lübbe, 1996, ISBN 3-404-13724-8

• The Tooth Fairy , 1996

  Companion of the night , Bastei-Lübbe, 1997, ISBN 3-404-13876-7

• The Stormwatcher , 1997
• Indigo , 1999
• Smoking Poppy , 2001
• The Facts of Life , 2002
• The Limits of Enchantment , 2005
• TWOC , 2005

  Frontal , Fischer, 1996, ISBN 3-596-16902-X

• Do the Creepy Thing , 2006
• Memoirs of a Master Forger (as William Heaney), 2008
• The Devil's Ladder , 2009
• The Silent Land , 2010

  Schneestille , Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-641-06613-0

• Some Kind of Fairy Tale , 2012

Collections

• Partial Eclipse and Other Stories , 2003
  • "The Apprentice", 1993
  • "Black Dust", 2002
  • "Candia", 1999
  • "The Careperson", 1992 ("The Social Worker")
  • "Gap Sickness", 1993
  • "Leningrad Nights", 1999
  • "The Mountain Eats People," 1998
  • "Partial Eclipse", 2000
  • "Pinkland", 1997
  • "Under the Pylon," 1993
  • "Xenos Beach", 2000

Other short stories

• Monastic Lives , 1992
• Last Rising Sun , 1992
• The Ventriloquial Art , 1993
• Eat Reecebread , with Peter F. Hamilton , 1994
• The Reckoning , 1994
• Black Ball Game , 1995
• A Tip from Bobby Moore , 1996
• The White Stuff , with Peter F. Hamilton , 1997
• As Seen on Radio , 1998
• Incident in Mombassa , 1999
• Horrograph , 1999
• Coventry Boy , 2001
• Leningrad Nights , 2002
• The Coventry Boy , 2002
• First, Catch Your Demon , 2002

Web links

• Literature by and about Graham Joyce in the catalog of the German National Library
• Graham Joyce in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Graham Joyce (1954–2014) , short biography on locusmag.com (English)
• Graham Joyce - Obituary , obituary in The Daily Telegraph, September 11, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ComputerAndVideogames.com: Doom 4 writer revealed ( Memento of March 6, 2009 on the Internet Archive ). January 16, 2009.