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Jack then

Jack Mayo Dann (born February 15, 1945 in Johnson City, New York ) is an American science fiction writer living in Australia and the editor of numerous anthologies . He has published over ten novels and numerous short stories, essays and poems. His works have so far been translated into 13 languages ​​and have received multiple awards.

Life

Jack Dann's father was the attorney and judge Murray I. Dann, his mother Edith, née Nash. Then described himself as a "difficult kid in a very small town". As an adolescent, he was a member of a local youth gang. When people were injured in a fireworks incident, he was given the choice between a military academy and a reformatory. He chose the military and stayed there for two years.

He then began studying theater in New York City . During his studies he fell ill with peritonitis in 1965 as a result of a poorly performed appendix operation. He survived and spent four months convalescing in an infirmary where several Mafiosi were recovering from a shootout.

After recovery, he moved to Binghamton , New York, where he continued his studies, graduating in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in social and political science. For most of the next 30 years he lived in Binghamton, repeatedly interrupted by stays abroad, the longest three years in Malaysia .

He had his first contact with science fiction in his early youth through his father's library. In the late 1960s he met a number of well-known science fiction and fantasy writers, including George Zebrowski , Pamela Sargent , Gardner Dozois , Jack C. Haldeman II and Joe Haldeman . Zebrowski and Sargent had studied with Jack Dann at Binghamton University . A short time later, Zebrowski started working together, of which the two short stories Dark, Dark the Dead Star and Traps were published in Worlds of If magazine in 1970 . It was also Zebrowski who introduced him to the world of science fiction conventions and fan meetings. Since then, it has been an integral part of the SF fandom and is also very involved there.

In 1974 he published his first anthology Wandering Stars , followed in 1977 by his first novel Starhiker . He had previously had to work as a travel agent for a while, because a publisher initially expressed interest in the synopsis of the novel, he then wrote the novel and in the meantime ran into debt, and when the publisher did not buy the novel, Dann found himself in financial difficulties.

Then moved to Melbourne in 1994, where he married Janeen Webb , a science fiction writer and critic whom he met in San Francisco and who was married for a second time in 1995. Since that time, the couple have worked together on many projects related to science fiction and are very well known in Australian fandom.

From 1970 to 1975 Dann worked as an editor for the Bulletin of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , from 1970 to 1972 as an assistant editor, then until 1975 he was editor-in-chief. He has been a consultant editor for Tor Books since 1994 .

Jack Dann currently lives on a farm in Victoria , but also spends time in Los Angeles and New York on a regular basis .

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overview

Then is best known as a publisher of anthologies in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

His first anthology, Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1974), contains stories by Jewish authors and stories dealing with the subject of Judaism, and was very successful in the 1970s. In 1981, More Wandering Stars: Outstanding Stories of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction, another collection of Jewish stories followed. In 2000, he and Grania Davidson Davis gave Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven: Essential Jewish Tales of the Spirit , a collection of stories by Avram Davidson . Despite his Jewish roots and an affinity for the cultural issues of Judaism, Dann describes himself as an atheist or "at best" an agnostic .

In 1987, together with his first wife, Jeanne Van Buren, he edited In the Field of Fire , a collection of SF and fantasy stories dealing with the Vietnam War, which was nominated for World Fantasy and Locus Awards in 1988 . Together with Ramsey Campbell and Dennis Etchison, he edited the horror anthology Gathering the Bones , which was shortlisted for the Best Genre Fiction of 2003 and shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award by the Library Journal .

As the publisher of anthologies, Dann is best known for a series of themed anthologies published together with Gardner Dozois . Most of the titles in the series were published by Ace Books . Since the first volumes of different types of magical creatures like unicorns and mermaids were on, the series is also available as Magic Tales Series known, but also as Exclamatory Series because of the exclamation point ( english exclamation point ) in the title, for example, aliens! , Unicorns! , Magicats! etc. The anthologies cover a wide range of topics from classic SF to fantasy. Both the volumes and the individual stories each have a foreword by the editor.

Then the first four novels were science fiction. It was only with Memory Cathedral in 1995 that he turned to narratives of alternative history and forms of magical realism . Several of his novels are based on short stories.

In addition to the anthologies he edited and his novels, Dann wrote over 100 short stories, novellas and short stories. They have appeared in Omni , Playboy and many other magazines and anthologies , among others . A first collection appeared in 1980 with time tipping , further collections followed.

Dann's poems have appeared in many different magazines and collections. In 1978 he wrote his own reader Christs and Other Poems . Much of it has appeared in The Anthology of Speculative Poetry and Rod Serling Presents The Twilight Zone Magazine .

Since his first collaborations with George Zebrowski, Jack Dann has worked with many other writers, including Susan Caspar , Gardner Dozois , Jack C. Haldeman II , Michael Swanwick, and his wife, Janeen Webb . Then and Webb's short story Niagara Falling won the Aurealis and Ditmar Awards. Most of the collaborations with other writers were short stories, of which Dann brought out a selection with The Fiction Factory in 2005.

His stories are sometimes reminiscent of Kafka or Borges in style , can be very complex and demanding and often also mysterious and unpredictable. Then like to use surreal, dreamlike or hallucinatory elements and play with different levels of reality, blurring the difference between subjective and objective perception and the feeling arises that nothing is as it seems. The language and the images have a poetic quality, but his mode of expression is precise and he can give space to both the dark and gloomy and the light and serene at the same time.

Jack Dann is known for meticulous preparation and extensive research. This is particularly noticeable in his novels about alternative history. In the case of The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean , he read over 100 books to empathize with the zeitgeist and mentality of the 1950s. Like a historian, he goes back as far as possible to the sources . He is of the opinion that writer's block is not necessarily a negative experience and believes that it is an invitation from the subconscious to the author to do more research on a topic and to replenish the subconscious material supply through studies and the processing of experiences and so on to later develop new ideas for creative writing from this new material.

In the 1960s Dann dealt with Method Acting , originally conceived as a learning method for actors. He found parallels to the craft of writing and used the method to develop his characters in a novel. So he spent a year with the Sioux and took part in their traditional rites and ceremonies in order to be able to portray his character John Stone from the novel Bad medicine more authentically.

Then advocates that more established writers should give young, aspiring artists support in the form of workshops in developing their own writing style. Many science fiction writers today have received some form of basic training in such workshops, including Jack Dann, who says that participating in such workshops shaped him too. Since becoming one of the established authors himself, he has been giving workshops and teaching creative writing on a regular basis.

Then he worked in many genres and says that he appreciates their diversity and the literary possibilities that result. He therefore cannot be tied to a specific genre and mixes elements from several genres in many of his works. He sees the assignment of his works to a certain genre primarily in the service of marketing and as an orientation aid for the readership.

Charisma, memory, myth, transformation and the testimony of the Holocaust are topics that he found for himself or that were found in him by others. He often treats them as part of transcendent experiences, spiritual journeys or drastic experiences that dramatically change the protagonists' psyche. Many stories have young people as the main characters, who change psychologically in the course of the narrative due to influences emanating from aliens, through the experience of a revelation, through trauma or otherwise.

Then, according to him, several authors particularly influenced his writing, including Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez , JD Salinger and JG Ballard , but above all Paris - A feast for life , Hemingway's memories of his time in Paris in the 1920s would have impressed him . He read the book during his serious illness in 1965.

Novels

Starhiker (1977) - Worlds Vagabond 1979

Then describes the escape of a young man who has escaped from a future earth ruled by alien occupiers. On board one of these alien spaceships, he has a series of extraterrestrial and transcendent experiences before he finally returns to earth.

Junction (1981) - Hell's Frontier 1985

An earlier, shorter version of this novel was nominated for the Nebula and Locus Awards in 1974.

The Man Who Melted (1984) 1988

Robert Silverberg wrote the preface to this then novel. He is set in the 21st century in a post-apocalyptic world in which the "screamers" bring death to humanity and devastate the country. Raymond Mantle is desperately looking for his wife, whom he lost in an attack by the "Schreier", an incident of which he has hardly any tangible memory. However, he is convinced that she has survived in some form and goes on a search for her. The future portrayed shows unusual forms of consciousness, the introduction of a new telepathic reality, embodied by the "Great Scream", and the change in human morality towards very questionable behavior, including playing with human organs.

Among other things, the vision of the World Wide Web in a form that comes very close to today's is remarkable . At the time of publication, the ARPANET already existed, but could only be used by very limited groups.

The novel was nominated for the Nebula and Locus Awards in 1985. Excerpts and abstracts have appeared under a wide variety of titles, the most successful of which, Amnesia , was also nominated for a Nebula.

High Steel (1993) with Jack C. Haldeman II

Gigantic company complexes determine life in the 22nd century. The novel tells the fate of John Stranger, an Indian who is forced to leave his reservation to work on an orbital station on behalf of "Trans-United". He is recruited for his shamanic skills, which are supposed to help decipher an extraterrestrial message. There is a competition between several rival companies, as the building instructions for a faster than light drive are assumed in the embassy.

The novel is an expanded recast of the short story Echoes of Thunder from 1991. In 2003, then worked on a sequel to High Steel under the title Ghost Dance . Barbara Delaplace, the widow of Jack C. Haldeman II, who died in 2002, was to co-author.

The Memory Cathedral (1995)

In his alternative historical novel, Dann sketches a version of the Renaissance in which Leonardo da Vinci actually constructed some of his inventions that actually only exist as drawings, such as his flying machine. In the novel, da Vinci also uses his devices in a war in the Middle East. Jack Dann puts his story in a period of da Vinci's life that is very sparsely documented. The novel sheds light on the life and character of the inventor and painter within this period in great detail. Other historical figures from Florence appear at the time, including Machiavelli and Botticelli .

The title refers to a form of mnemonic technology , the so-called memory palace , an imagined building with the help of which memories are spatially and visually structured and thus made more available.

The novel has been translated into ten languages, won the 1997 Australian Aurealis Award and reached number one on The Age bestseller list . The short story Da Vinci Rising , based on The Memory Cathedral , won the Nebula Award.

The Silent (1998)

Jack Dann's second historical novel is a first-person story from the perspective of the teenage Edmund "Mundy" McDowell at the time of the American Civil War of 1862. After his home was torn down and his mother was raped and murdered by looting Union soldiers, he travels aimlessly through Virginia . The terrible experiences made him mute, hence the title of the book. Then uses the journey of its protagonist to paint the horrors of the battlefields of the civil war, which are symbolically expressed in delusions, hallucinations and ghostly visions.

Bad Medicine (2000)

The protagonists of the novel (alternative title: Counting Coup ) are two men in their 60s, the caretaker Charlie Sarris and the Indian medicine man John Stone. Both lament their lost youth, both are heavy drinkers and thus recognize themselves as soul mates. When Charlie discovers that his young daughter is pregnant and overwhelmed with the duties of future parenthood, he joins John on a trip to Florida. John intends to meet his shamanic opponent Whiteshirt. On the trip, they both display rampant, criminal and self-destructive behavior. As it turns out, Whiteshirt put a curse on John that also affects Charlie and is now revealing the worst of her character.

The book did not appear until years after completion because the original publisher Bluejay Books went bankrupt. An abridged version appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 8 in 1984 and was shortlisted for the Locus Award, the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award in 1985.

The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean (2004)

Similar to The Memory Cathedral , The Rebel is about an alternative past , in which the actor James Dean does not die as a result of a car accident, but becomes a successful actor, director and later governor of California. Dean meets a number of famous contemporaries, including Marilyn Monroe , the Kennedys, and Elvis Presley .

The Economy of Light (2008)

The main character of this horror novel is a former Nazi hunter, whose siblings were killed by Josef Mengele . This drives him on an arduous search for a faith healer in the Amazon who is rumored to be able to cure him of the effects of a mental illness contracted at Mengele's tomb. Michael Swanwick wrote the foreword .

In 2008 this book was nominated for the Aurealis Award in the category of best horror novel.

Awards

  • 1990 Locus Award for Kaddish for best short story
  • 1996 Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Readers' Award for Da Vinci Rising for Best Narrative
  • 1997 Nebula Award for Da Vinci Rising as best story
  • 1996 Aurealis Award for The Memory Cathedral for best fantasy novel
  • 1997 Aurealis Award for Niagara Falling with Janeen Webb for best SF short story
  • 1997 Ditmar Award for Niagara Falling for best Australian short story
  • 1999 Ditmar Award for Dreaming Down Under with Janeen Webb as best Australian anthology
  • 1999 World Fantasy Award for Dreaming Down-Under with Janeen Webb as best anthology
  • 2002 Ditmar Award for The Diamond Pit as best short story
  • 2004 Peter McNamara Conveners' Award
  • 2009 Ditmar Award for Dreaming Again as best anthology
  • 2009 Peter McNamara Conveners' Award
  • 2010 Locus Award for The Dragon Book as best anthology
  • 2012 Aurealis Award for Ghosts by Gaslight as best anthology
  • 2012 Shirley Jackson Award for Ghosts by Gaslight as best anthology
  • 2017 Ditmar Award for Dreaming in the Dark as best anthology
  • 2017 World Fantasy Award for Dreaming in the Dark as best anthology

bibliography

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

Series

Junction (short stories)
  • Junction (in: Fantastic, November 1973 )
  • The Islands of Time (in: Fantastic, September 1977 )
  • Junction (1981, novel)
    • German: Grenzland der Hell. Translated by Rainer Schmidt. Moewig Science Fiction # 3689, 1985, ISBN 3-8118-3689-7 .
Starhiker (short stories)
  • The Dream Lions (in: Amazing Science Fiction, September 1976 )
  • Starhiker (in: Amazing Science Fiction, June 1976 )
  • Starhiker (1977, novel)
    • German: Weltenvagabund. Translated by Bernd W. Holzrichter. Droemer Knaur (Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5713), 1979, ISBN 3-426-05713-1 .
John Strange (short stories)
  • High Steel (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1982 ; with Jack C. Haldeman II )
  • Sentry (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1988 ; with Jack C. Haldeman II)
  • High Steel (1993, novel; with Jack C. Haldeman II)
The Rebel (short stories)
  • Ting-a-Ling (2001, in: Al Sarrantonio (Ed.): Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction )
  • Rings Around the Moon (2003, in: Deborah Layne and Jay Lake (Eds.): Polyphony: Volume 3 )
  • Bugs (in: Postscripts, Summer 2004 )
  • Good Deeds (2004, in: Pamela Sargent (Ed.): Conqueror Fantastic )
  • The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean (2004, novel)
  • Dharma Bums (in: Postscripts, Summer 2005 )
  • Dreaming with the Angels (in: Postscripts, Spring 2005 )
  • King of the Mountain (in: Postscripts, Winter 2006 )
  • The Method (in: Postscripts, Summer 2006 )
  • The Nerve Garden (2007, in: Jack Dann: Promised Land: Stories of Another America )
  • Promised Land: Stories of Another America (2007, collection)
  • Promised Land (2007, in: Jack Dann: Promised Land: Stories of Another America )

Novels

  • The Man Who Melted (1984)
    • German: The melting man. Translated by Hilde Linnert. Heyne SF&F # 4547, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-03136-9 .
  • The Memory Cathedral: A Secret History of Leonardo da Vinci (1995)
    • English: The Cathedral of Remembrance. Jack then. Translated by Rainer Schmidt. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1996, ISBN 3-7857-0850-5 . Also called: The Cathedral of Remembrance: The Secret Life of Leonardo da Vinci. Translated by Rainer Schmidt. Bastei-Lübbe Taschenbuch # 92002, Bergisch Gladbach 1998, ISBN 3-404-92002-3 .
  • Bad Medicine (1996; also: Counting Coup , 2001)
  • The Silent (1998)
    • German: The day I became invisible. Translated by Rainer Schmidt. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1999, ISBN 3-7857-0981-1 .
  • The Economy of Light (2008)
  • Shadows in the Stone: A Book of Transformations (2019)

Collections

  • Timetipping (1980)
  • Jubilee (2001)
  • Visitations (2003)
  • The Fiction Factory (2005)
  • Da Vinci Rising / The Diamond Pit (2010, collective edition)
  • The Economy of Light / Jubilee (2011, collective edition)
  • Dream of Venus and Other Science Fiction Stories / Decimated: Ten Science Fiction Stories (2012, collective edition; with Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski )
  • Aurealis Duo: Terrorism (2013, collective edition)
  • Concentration (2016)
  • Shadows on the Wall: Weird Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Supernatural (2018; with Steven Paulsen)

Short stories

If only the title and year are given as the source for translations of short stories, the complete information can be found in the corresponding collective edition.

1970:

  • Traps (in: Worlds of If, March 1970 ; with George Zebrowski )
  • Dark, Dark, the Dead Star (in: If, July-August 1970 ; with George Zebrowski)

1971:

  • Listen, Love (1971, in: Michael Moorcock (Ed.): New Worlds Quarterly 2 ; with George Zebrowski)
    • German: The other world. Translated by Folkert Mohrhof. In: Folkert Mohrhof and Jürgen Heckert (eds.): Alpha 12. Private printing, 1973. Also as: Horch, my sweetheart calls. Translated by Tony Westermayr. In: Isaac Asimov , Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (eds.): Fireworks of the SF. Goldmann (Edition '84: The Positive Utopias # 8), 1984, ISBN 3-442-08408-3 .
  • Cartoon (in: Fantastic, December 1971 )
  • Windows (1971)
    • German: window. Translated by Johannes Piron . In: The time typing. 1985.

1972:

  • Whirl Cage (1972, in: Damon Knight (Ed.): Orbit 10 )
  • I'm with You in Rockland (1972, in: Thomas N. Scortia (Ed.): Strange Bedfellows )
    • German: Try driving to a tree. Translated by Horst Pukallus . In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Spinnenmusik. Heyne SF&F # 3646, 1979, ISBN 3-453-30559-0 . Also as: I'm with you in Rockland. Translated by Johannes Piron. In: The time typing. 1985.
  • The Drum Lollipop (1972, in: Damon Knight (Ed.): Orbit 11 )
    • German: The drum lollipop. Translated by Johannes Piron. In: The time typing. 1985.

1973:

  • There Are No Banisters (1973, in: Michael Moorcock (Ed.): New Worlds Quarterly 5 ; also: Fragmentary Blue , 1975)
  • The Marks of Painted Teeth (1973, in: Roger Elwood (Ed.): Demon Kind )
    • English: The traces of painted teeth. Translated by Johannes Piron. In: The time typing. 1985.
  • Rags (in: Fantastic, April 1973 )
    • German: Rags. Translated by Uwe Anton . In: Renate Stroik (Ed.): Comet 7705. Tandem Comet # 197705, 1977.
  • Tulpa (1973, in: Michael Moorcock and Charles Platt (Eds.): New Worlds 6 )
  • Od (1973, in: Roger Elwood (Ed.): Omega ; with George Zebrowski )

1974:

  • The Flower That Missed the Morning (1974, in: Roger Elwood (Ed.): The Killer Plants and Other Stories , with George Zebrowski)
  • The Good Old Days (1974, in: Roger Elwood (Ed.): Journey to Another Star and Other Stories )
  • Thirty-Three and One-Third (1974, in: Roger Elwood (Ed.): Long Night of Waiting by Andre Norton and Other Stories ; with George Zebrowski)

1975:

  • The Dybbuk Dolls (1975, in: Robert Silverberg (Ed.): New Dimensions Science Fiction Number 5 )
    • English: The Dibbuk Dolls. Translated by Johannes Piron. In: The time typing. 1985.
  • Timetipping (1975, in: Robert Silverberg and Roger Elwood (Eds.): Epoch )
    • German: The time typing. Translated by Johannes Piron. In: The time typing. 1985.
  • Faces Forward (1975, in: Roger Elwood (Ed.): Dystopian Visions ; with George Zebrowski)
  • Fragmentary Blue (1975)

1976:

  • Limits (in: Fantastic, May 1976 ; with Jack C. Haldeman II )
  • Yellowhead (1976, in: Thomas M. Disch and Charles Naylor (Eds.): New Constellations: An Anthology of Tomorrow's Mythologies ; with George Zebrowski)

1977:

  • Among the Mountains (1977, in: Poul Anderson and Roger Elwood (Eds.): A World Named Cleopatra )
  • Visitors (in: Fantastic, December 1977 )

1978:

  • A Quiet Revolution for Death (1978, in: Robert Silverberg (Ed.): New Dimensions: Science Fiction: Number 5 )
    • English: A silent revolution for death. Translated by Johannes Piron. In: The time typing. 1985.

1979:

  • Days of Stone (in: Fantastic, January 1979 )
    • German: Days of Stone. Translated by Bernd Müller. In: Horst Pukallus (Ed.): Quasar 3. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special # 24038, 1983, ISBN 3-404-24038-3 . Also as: stone days. Translated by Johannes Piron. In: The time typing. 1985.
  • Camps (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1979 )
    • German: Lager. Translated by Werner Vetter. In: Manfred Kluge (ed.): Insects in amber. Heyne SF&F # 3767, 1980, ISBN 3-453-30668-6 .
  • Night Visions (1979, in: Charles L. Grant (Ed.): Shadows 2 )
    • German: Nocturnal Visions. Translated by Johannes Piron. In: The time typing. 1985.

1980:

  • Amnesia (1980)
    • German: amnesia. Translated by Johannes Piron. In: The time typing. 1985.
  • Going Under (1980)
    • German: downfall. Translated by Edda Petri. In: Terry Carr (ed.): The most beautiful science fiction stories of the year: Volume 2. Heyne SF&F # 4047, 1984, ISBN 3-453-30990-1 . Also as: The downfall. Translated by Johannes Piron. In: The time typing. 1985.

1981:

1982:

  • Playing the Game (in: Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, February 1982 ; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Screamers (1982, in: Oui )

1983:

  • Blind Shemmy (in: Omni, April 1983 )
  • A Cold Day in the Mesozoic (1983, in: Charles L. Grant (Ed.): Fears )
  • Down Among the Dead Men (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1983 ; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Reunion (1983, in: Charles L. Grant (Ed.): Shadows 6 )
  • Time Bride (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1983 ; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Slow Dancing with Jesus (1983; with Gardner Dozois)
    • German: Slow dance with Jesus. Translated by Kalla Wefel. In: Hans Joachim Alpers and Werner Fuchs (eds.): 13 fantastic rock stories. Fantasy Productions # 507, 1988, ISBN 3-89064-507-0 .

1984:

  • Afternoon at Schrafft’s (in: Amazing Science Fiction, March 1984 ; with Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick)
    • German: An afternoon at Schrafft's. Translated by Marita Böhm. In: Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois: The Big Cat Reading Book of Fantasy. Goldmann, 1993, ISBN 3-442-42244-2 .
  • Bad Medicine (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1984 )
    • German: Bad medicine. Translated by Jürgen Langowski. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazin 25th episode. Heyne SF&F # 4222, 1985, ISBN 3-453-31201-5 .
  • The Black Horn (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1984 )
  • Golden Apples of the Sun (1984; with Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick)
    • English: Golden apples of the sun. Translated by Erik Simon . In: Erik Simon and Friedel Wahren (eds.): Beautiful presents. Heyne (General Series # 13284), 2000, ISBN 3-453-18272-3 .

1985:

  • The Gods of Mars (in: Omni, March 1985 ; with Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick)
    • English: The gods of Mars. Translated by Michael Kubiak. In: Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha (eds.): World's Best SF 5. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller # 22092, 1986, ISBN 3-404-22092-7 . Also called: The gods from Mars. In: Alien Contact 8. Avalon, 1986.
  • The Clowns (in: Playboy, August 1985 ; with Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper)
  • Between the Windows of the Sea (1985, in: Charles L. Grant (Ed.): Shadows 8 )

1986:

  • Tattoos (in: Omni, November 1986 )

1987:

  • Bringing It Home (in: Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, February 1987 ; with Barry N. Malzberg )
  • The Apotheosis of Isaac Rosen (in: Omni, June 1987 ; with Jeanne Van Buren Dann)

1988:

  • Blues and the Abstract Truth (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1988 ; with Barry N. Malzberg)
    • English: melancholy or the abstract truth. Translated by Ronald M. Hahn . In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): Return from the Rainbow Bridge. Heyne SF&F # 4574, 1989, ISBN 3-453-03163-6 . Also as: melancholy and the abstract truth. Translated by Ronald M. Hahn. In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): Return from the Rainbow Bridge. Heyne SF&F # 4574, 1989, ISBN 3-453-03163-6 .
  • Tea (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1988 )
  • Getting Up (1988, in: Tim Sullivan (Ed.): Tropical Chills ; with Barry N. Malzberg)
    • English: The last chapter in the book of honor. Translated by Marcel Bieger. In: Tim Sullivan (ed.): Hot fear. Droemer Knaur (Knaur-Taschenbücher # 1836), 1990, ISBN 3-426-01836-5 .

1989:

  • Kaddish (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1989 )

1990:

  • The Incompleat Ripper (in: Starshore, Summer 1990 , with Gregory Frost)

1991:

  • Echoes of Thunder (1991, in: Harlan Ellison, Jack C. Haldeman II and Jack Dann: Run for the Stars / Echoes of Thunder ; with Jack C. Haldeman II)
  • Voices (in: Omni, August 1991 )

1992:

  • Life in the Air (in: Amazing Stories, April 1992 ; with Barry N. Malzberg)
  • Jumping the Road (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1992 )
  • The Extra (1992)

1993:

  • The Glass Casket (1993, in: Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow (Eds.): Snow White, Blood Red )
  • Thunder-Being (2 parts in: Amazing Stories, April 1993  ff .; with Jack C. Haldeman II )
  • Vapors (in: Amazing Stories, June 1993 )
  • Art Appreciation (in: Omni, September 1993 ; with Barry N. Malzberg)
  • The Path of Remembrance (in: Amazing Stories, November 1993 )

1994:

  • Discounts (1994, in: Mike Resnick , Loren D. Estleman and Martin H. Greenberg (Eds.): Deals with the Devil )
  • Afternoon Ghost (1994, in: Carol Serling (Ed.): Return to the Twilight Zone ; with George Zebrowski )
  • Counting Coup (1994, in: Piers Anthony and Richard Gilliam (Eds.): Tales from the Great Turtle )

1995:

  • Da Vinci Rising (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1995 )
  • Jubilee (in: Omni Online, July 1995 )

1996:

  • Blind Eye (in: Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Summer 1996 )
  • Ships (1996, in: Ellen Datlow (Ed.): Lethal Kisses ; with Michael Swanwick )

1997:

  • Niagara Falling (1997, in: Orson Scott Card and Keith Ferrell (Eds.): Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures ; with Janeen Webb)
  • A Gift of Eagles (1997)

1998:

  • The Talking Sword (1998, in: Paul Collins (Ed.): Fantastic Worlds )
  • Spirit Dog (1998, in: Edward E. Kramer and James O'Barr (Eds.): Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams )

2000:

  • Marilyn (2000, in: Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Summer 1996 )
  • The Fire-eater's Tale (2000, in: Edward E. Kramer (Ed.): Strange Attraction ; with Janeen Webb)

2001:

  • The Diamond Pit (2001, in: Jack Dann: Jubilee )

2003:

  • The Hanging (2003, in: Deborah Layne and Jay Lake (Eds.): Polyphony 2 )
  • Eden (2003, in: Cat Sparks (Ed.): Agog! Terrific Tales )
  • Summer (2003, in: Mike Resnick (Ed.): Men Writing Science Fiction as Women )

2005:

2006:

  • River (2006, in: Russell Davis and Martin H. Greenberg (Eds.): Millennium 3001 ; with Keith Ferrell)
  • Faulkner's Seesaw (2006, in: Deborah Layne and Jay Lake (Eds.): Polyphony 6 ; with Barry N. Malzberg)

2007:

  • Café Culture (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2007 )
  • The Transformation of Targ (2007, in: Jonathan Strahan (Ed.): Eclipse One ; with Paul Brandon)
  • The Art of Memory (in: Jim Baen's Universe, December 2007 ; with Barry N. Malzberg)
  • Promised Land (2007)

2008:

  • The Economy of Light (2008)
  • Under the Shadow of Jonah (in: Postscripts, Summer 2008 )

2010:

  • Telescope (2010, in: Gillian Polack (Ed.): Baggage )

2011:

  • Mohammed's Angel (2011, in: StarShipSofa, No 190 )

2012:

  • The Standard Crisis Scenario (2012, in: Pamela Sargent, Jack Dann and George Zebrowski: Dream of Venus and Other Science Fiction Stories / Decimated: Ten Science Fiction Stories ; with George Zebrowski )

2013:

  • Waiting for Medusa (2013, in: Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 5: Issue 6 )
  • The Rapture (2013, in: Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers (Eds.): Memoryville Blues (Postscripts # 30/31) ; with Barry N. Malzberg)
  • The Island of Time (2013, in: JE Mooney and Bill Fawcett (Eds.): Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe )

2016:

  • Trainspotting in Winesburg (2016, in: Jack Dann: Concentration )

2018:

  • Harold the Hero and the Talking Sword (2018, in: Jack Dann and Steven Paulsen: Shadows on the Wall: Weird Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Supernatural ; with Steven Paulsen)

2019:

  • Mr. Death Goes to the Beach (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, March-April 2019 )
  • The Carbon Dreamer (2019, in: Richard Chizmar (Ed.): Shivers VIII )
    • German: The crystal dreamer. Translated by Iris Bachmeier. In: Richard Chizmar (ed.): Shivers VIII: New Horror Stories. Buchheim Cemetery Dance Germany # 2, 2019.
  • The Last Maskil (2019, in: Allan Dyen-Shapiro and D. Avraham (Eds.): Holy COW! SF Stories from the Center Of the World )

did not show up:

  • The Carbon Dream (in: Harlan Ellison (Ed.): The Last Dangerous Visions )

Anthologies

Wandering Stars
  • Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1974)
  • More Wandering Stars (1981)
The Exclamatory Series (with Gardner Dozois )
  • Aliens! (1980)
  • Unicorns! (1982)
    • German: unicorns. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6744), 1985, ISBN 3-8118-6744-X . Also as: The most beautiful unicorn stories. Moewig Science Fiction # 3753, 1987, ISBN 3-8118-3753-2 .
  • Magicats! (1984)
  • Bestiary! (1985)
  • Clones! (1986)
  • Mermaids! (1986)
  • Sorcerers! (1986)
  • Demons! (1987)
  • Dogtales! (1988)
  • Seaserpents! (1989)
  • Dinosaurs! (1990)
  • Little People! (1991)
  • Magicats II (1991)
  • Unicorns II (1992)
  • Dragons! (1993)
  • Invaders! (1993)
  • Horses! (1994)
  • Angels! (1995)
  • Dinosaurs II (1995)
  • Timegates (1997)
  • Immortals (1998)
  • Nanotech (1998
Dreaming down under
  • 1 Dreaming Down-Under (1998; with Janeen Webb)
  • 2 Dreaming Again (2008)
Nebula Awards
  • 32 Nebula Awards 32 (1998)
  • 39 Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (2005)
individual anthologies
  • Future Power (1976; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Faster Than Light (1976; with George Zebrowski )
    • German: Twelve times faster than light. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special # 24101, 1987, ISBN 3-404-24101-0 .
  • Immortal: Short Novels of the Transhuman Future (1978)
  • Three in Space (1981; with Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski)
  • In the Field of Fire (1987; with Jeanne Van Buren Dann)
  • Geometry (1989; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Run for the Stars / Echoes of Thunder (1991; with Harlan Ellison and Jack C. Haldeman II )
  • Hackers (1996; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Space Soldiers (1996; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Three in Time (1997; with Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski)
  • Future War (1999; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Armageddons (1999; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Aliens Among Us (2000; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Genometry (2001; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Future Sports (2002; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Beyond Flesh (2002; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Gathering the Bones: Thirty-Four Original Stories from the World's Masters of Horror (2003; with Ramsey Campbell and Dennis Etchison )
  • Future Crimes (2003; with Gardner Dozois)
  • AIs (2004; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Robots (2005; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Beyond Singularity (2005; with Gardner Dozois)
  • The Fiction Factory (2005)
  • Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space (2006; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Futures Past (2006; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Dangerous Games (2007; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy (2007; also: Dark Alchemy: Magical Tales from Masters of Modern Fantasy ; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Dark Alchemy: Magical Tales from Masters of Modern Fantasy (2007; with Gardner Dozois)
  • The Dragon Book (2009; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Legends of Australian Fantasy (2010; with Jonathan Strahan)
  • Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense (2011; with Nick Gevers)
  • Magicats I (2014; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Unicorns I (2014; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Dreaming in the Dark (2016)

Others

  • Insinuations: An Autobiography (2010)
  • Reading the Entrails: An Interview With Lucius Shepard (2015)

literature

Web links

Commons : Jack Dann  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murray Waldren: An interview with JACK DANN ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , published in The Weekend Australian , 1999, accessed December 25, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / members.optusnet.com.au
  2. ↑ Gold Down Under. In: Locus. May 1999, accessed November 26, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Meredith Morgenstern: The Rose & THorn: An Interview with the Author Jack Dann ( Memento from May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) https://web.archive.org/web//
  4. ↑ a b c d Nick Gevers: JD meets JD as Jack Dann writes from down under about the imagined life of James Dean ( Memento from March 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ A b c Leigh Blackmore: Time and Memory. In: Tabula Rasa. 2003, accessed January 20, 2009 .
  6. ^ Alison Neale, Elizabeth Sleeman: International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 . Routledge, New York 2003, ISBN 1-85743-179-0 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e Index of Literary Nominees. (No longer available online.) In: The Locus Index to SF Awards. Archived from the original on December 3, 2008 ; Retrieved January 28, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.locusmag.com
  8. ^ Adam-Troy Castro: Off the Shelf. In: Sci Fi Weekly. Sci Fi Channel, 2003, archived from the original on August 30, 2007 ; Retrieved January 22, 2009 .
  9. ^ A b Teri Smith, Jean Marie Ward: Jack Then: Leather Jackets and Leonardo. In: Crescent Blues. 2006, accessed January 22, 2009 .
  10. ^ Roger Zelazny: Introduction. (Introduction) In: Jack Dann: Timetipping. Doubleday and Company, 1980, ISBN 0-385-14338-9 , pp. Xii-xiii.
  11. ^ Nancy Kress: Beginnings, Middles and Ends . Writer's Digest Books, 1999, ISBN 0-89879-905-8 , pp. 99 .
  12. ↑ a b c Killian Melloy: Jack Dann interviewed by Kilian Melloy. In: Infinityplus. 2004, accessed January 28, 2009 .
  13. ↑ John Kessel: Out of the Box. (Introduction) In: Jack Then: Jubilee. Voyager, Sydney 2001, ISBN 0-7322-6719-6 , p. 3.
  14. ^ Frances Atkinson: Influences. In: The Sunday Age . Agenda Section, July 29, 2001, p. 10.
  15. ↑ Nader Elhefnawy: The Man Who Melted by Jack Dann. In: Strange Horizons Reviews. August 2007, accessed January 29, 2009 .
  16. ↑ Jack Dann: Jack Dann: Bibliography. In: Jack Dann: The official website. Archived from the original on January 25, 2008 ; Retrieved February 4, 2009 .
  17. ↑ a b Aurealis winners, 1995–2006 ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 727 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aurealisawards.com
personal data
SURNAME Then Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Then, Jack Mayo (full name); Then, Jack M. (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American SF and fantasy writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Johnson City, New York