Jack Sharkey (writer)

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Jack Sharkey (actually John Michael Sharkey; born May 6, 1931 in Chicago , Illinois ; died September 28, 1992 in Laguna Hills , California ) was an American writer, best known for a writer of science fiction and plays.

Life

Sharkey was the son of Patrick Sharkey and Mary Sharkey, nee Luckey. He studied English at Saint Mary's College in Winona , Minnesota , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1953 . From 1955 to 1956 he served in the US Army . In 1962 he married Patricia Walsh, with whom he had three daughters and a son. From 1963 to 1964 he was an assistant editor at Playboy and from 1964 to 1975 editor of Good Hands magazine at Allstate Insurance Corporation in Northbrook , Illinois. In 1967 he was awarded the American Association of Industrial Editors Prize .

Sharkey published his first science fiction story with The Captain of His Soul in 1959 in Fantastic magazine. In the following years up to 1965 over 60 short stories and 7 novels were published. As the Encycopedia of Science Fiction attests, his science fiction was, apart from exceptions such as the dystopia ultimatum in 2050 AD (1963, German as a revolution for the future ), enjoyable to read and often humorous, such as the fantasy novel It's Magic , You Dope! (1962). From 1965, Sharkney became a prolific playwright. In 1984 he received the Inland Theater League Award . As a playwright, he also used the pseudonyms Rick Abbot, Mark Chandler, Monk Ferris and Mike Johnson.

Sharkey died in 1992 at the age of 61.

bibliography

If two years of publication are given for the original editions, the first is that of the first edition and the second that of the first edition (as a book).

Contact / Jerry Norcriss (short story series)
  • Arcturus Times Three (1961)
  • Big Baby (1962)
  • A Matter of Protocol (1962)
  • The Creature Inside (1963)
  • The Colony That Failed (1964)
Novels
  • Murder, Maestro, Please (1960)
    • German: Murder and Music: Detective novel. Translated by Friedrich A. Sommer. Signum paperbacks # 149, 1963.
  • The Secret Martians (1960)
    • English: The 15 hostages. Pabel (Utopia Science Fiction # 355), 1962.
  • Death for Auld Lang Syne (1963)
  • Ultimatum in 2050 AD (1963, 1965, also called The Programmed People , 2010)
    • German: Revolution about the future. Pabel (Utopia Science Fiction # 547), 1967.
  • The Addams Family (1965)
  • It's Magic, You Dope! (1962, 2009)
  • The Crispin Affair (1960, 2012)
Short stories
  • The Captain of His Soul (1959)
  • The Obvious Solution (1959)
  • The Arm of Enmord (1959)
  • Queen of the Green Sun (1959)
  • Bedside Monster (1959)
  • The Kink Remover (1959)
  • Dolce Al Fine (1959)
  • Let X = Alligator (1959)
  • The Blackbird (1959)
  • Ship Ahoy! (1959)
  • Minor Detail (1959)
  • Multum in Parvo (1959)
  • The Man Who Was Pale (1959)
  • To Each His Own (1960)
  • Multum in Parvo Rides Again (1960)
  • Old Friends Are the Best (1960)
  • Doomsday Army (1960)
  • The Dope On Mars (1960)
  • The Business, As Usual (1960)
  • The Final Ingredient (1960)
  • Squeeze (1960)
  • Status Quaint (1960)
  • According to Plan (1961)
  • The Contact Point (1961)
  • A Thread in Time (1961)
  • Night Caller (1961)
  • Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? (1961)
  • The Flying Tuskers of K'niik-K'naak (1961)
  • No Harm Done (1961)
  • One Small Drawback (1961)
  • Conversation with a Bug (1961)
  • Robotum Delenda Est! (1962)
  • Double or Nothing (1962)
  • Behind the Door (1962)
  • The Leech (1963)
  • The Smart Ones (1963)
  • The Trouble With Tweenity (1963)
  • Collector's Item (1963)
    • German: The final proof. In: Charlotte Winheller (ed.): The survivors. Heyne (Heyne General Series # 272), 1964.
  • The After Time (1963)
  • The Aftertime (1963)
  • The Awakening (1964)
    • German: The awakening. In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): 9 Science Fiction Stories. Heyne (Heyne Anthologies # 14), 1965.
  • The Orginorg Way (1964)
  • Survival of the Fittest (1964)
    • German: At the end of all dreams. In: Charlotte Winheller (Ed.): Die Kristallwelt. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3027), 1964.
  • At the Feelies (1964)
  • Illusion (1964)
  • The Twerlik (1964)
  • Trade-In (1964)
    • German: The demoness. In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): Wanderer through time and space. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy), 1964.
  • The Venus Charm (1964)
  • Weetl (1964)
  • Footnote to an Old Story (1964)
  • Hear and Obey (1964)
  • The Grooves (1964)
  • Breakthrough (1964)
    • German: The machine with humor. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Hrsg.): Border crossers between the worlds. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3089), 1967.
  • The Pool (1964)
  • The Seminarian (1964)
  • Blue Boy (1965)
  • Essentials Only (1965)
  • Look Out Below (1965)
  • Trouble with Hyperspace (1965)
  • The Glorious Fourth (1965)
  • Life Cycle (1970)
  • Rate of Exchange (1971)
  • The Phantom Ship (1985)
  • Cinderella Meets the Wolfman !: A Howlingly Funny Musical Spoof (1988, with Tim Kelly)
Plays
  • Here Lies Jeremy Troy (1965)
  • M is for Million (1971)
  • How Green Was My Brownie (1972)
  • Kiss or Make Up (1972)
  • Meanwhile, Back on the Couch (1973)
  • A Gentleman and a Scoundrel (1973)
  • Roomies (1974)
  • Spinoff (1974)
  • Who's on First? (1975)
  • What a Spoil (1975, with Dave Reiser)
  • Saving Grace (1976)
  • Take a Number, Darling (1976)
  • The Creature Creeps! (1977)
  • Dream Lover (1977)
  • Hope for the Best (1977, with Dave Reiser)
  • Rich Is Better (1977)
  • The Murder Room (1977)
  • Pushover (1977, with Ken Easton)
  • Once Is Enough (1977)
  • The Clone People (as Mike Johnson) (1978)
  • Missing Link (1978)
  • Turnabout (1978, with Ken Easton)
  • Not the Count of Monte Cristo? (1978, with Dave Reiser)
  • Turkey in the Straw (1979)
  • Operetta! (1979, with Dave Reiser)
  • My Son the Astronaut (1980)
  • Par for the Corpse (1980)
  • Honestly Now (1981)
  • The Return of the Maniac (1981, as Mike Johnson)
  • Slow Down, Sweet Chariot (1982, with Dave Reiser)
  • Woman Overboard (1982, with Dave Reiser)
  • Your Flake or Mine? (1982)
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray, from the novel by Oscar Wilde (1982)
  • The Saloonkeeper's Daughter (1982, with Dave Reiser)
  • The Second Lady (1983)
  • And on the Sixth Day (1984, with Dave Reiser)
  • Dracula, the Musical? : Book, Music, and Lyrics (1984, as Rick Abbot)
  • The Bride of Brackenloch! (1987, as Rick Abbot)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Kelley: Sharkey, Jack . In: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. Chicago 1991, p. 709.
personal data
SURNAME Sharkey, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sharkey, John Michael (real name); Abbot, Rick (pseudonym); Chandler, Mark (pseudonym); Ferris, Monk (pseudonym); Johnson, Mike (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1992
Place of death Laguna Hills , California