Isidore Haiblum

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Isidore Haiblum (born May 23, 1935 in New York City ; died October 25, 2012 there ) was an American science fiction and crime writer.

Life

Haiblum grew up as the son of Alex Haiblum and Sara, née Jijmerskaia, in a Yiddish-speaking environment in Brooklyn . He studied English and social sciences at City College of New York , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1958 . From 1959 to 1964 he served in the United States Army Reserve , after which he worked in various professions, including interviewer, screenwriter and agent of a folk singer. He sold his first novel The Return in 1970, but did not appear until 1973, after The Tsaddik of the Seven Wonders (1971). Since then he has been a freelance writer.

In 1994 he married Ruth Aleskovsky. After a stroke in 2008, he could no longer write. In 2012 he died at the age of 77.

His novels are characterized by Yiddish humor and the mixture of genre elements from science fiction or the hardboiled detectives of the 1930s with elements of Jewish culture and tradition, such as in The Tsaddik of the Seven Wonders , the “first Yiddish science fantasy -Roman ”, or in Murder in Yiddish (1988). In addition to translations into German, his novels have been translated into French, Italian, Hebrew and Spanish. In 1972 The Tsaddik of the Seven Wonders was nominated for the Mythopoeic Award .

bibliography

Series

Gunjer / Happy City

  • 1 Interworld (1977)
  • 2 Outerworld (1979)
  • 3 Specterworld (1991)
  • 4 Crystalworld (1992)

Siscoe and Block

  • 1 The Identity Plunderers (1984)
  • 2 The Hand of Ganz (1985)

The Mutants Are Coming

  • 1 The Mutants Are Coming (1984)
    • English: The mutants are coming. Moewig (Terra Taschenbuch # 371), 1986, ISBN 3-8118-3411-8 .
  • 2 Out of Sync (1990)
Novels
  • The Tsaddik of the Seven Wonders (1971)
    • English: The Zadik of the Seven Wonders. Translated by Ingrid Herrmann. Heyne SF&F # 5101, 1994, ISBN 3-453-07266-9 .
  • The Return (1973)
    • English: The return of the astronaut. Moewig (Terra Taschenbuch # 348), 1982.
  • Transfer To Yesterday (1973)
  • The Wilk Are Among Us (1975)
  • Nightmare Express (1979)
  • Murder in Yiddish (1988)
  • Bad Neighbors (1990)
Non-fiction
  • Faster Than a Speeding Bullet (1980, with Stuart Silver)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Haiblum, Isidore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haiblum, Isidor (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction and crime novel writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2012
Place of death New York City