James Blaylock

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James Paul Blaylock (born September 20, 1950 in Long Beach , California ) is an American SF and fantasy author . He also writes with Tim Powers under the pseudonym William Ashbless .

Life

Blaylock studied English at California State University in Fullerton . There he got to know KW Jeter and Tim Powers and made contact with the SF author Philip K. Dick . There was a lively collaboration with Powers, with whom he wrote several stories together. Blaylock now lives in Orange County, California , where he is the director of the Creative Writing Conservatory at Orange County High School of the Arts , where Tim Powers also works.

In 1986 and 1997 he won the World Fantasy Award for the best short story category .

bibliography

Rows

Narbondo / Langdon St. Ives
  • 1 Homunculus (1986)
    • German: Homunculus. Translated by Biggy Winter. Heyne SF&F # 4699, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-453-04281-6 .
  • 2 Lord Kelvin's Machine (1992)
  • 3 The Ebb Tide (2009)
  • 4 The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs (2011)
  • 5 The Aylesford Skull (2013)
  • 6 Beneath London (2015)
  • 7 River's Edge (2017)
  • 8 The Gobblin 'Society (2020)
  • The Ape-Box Affair (in: Unearth, Spring 1978 )
  • The Idol's Eye (1984, in: Mark Alan Arnold and Terri Windling (Eds.): Elsewhere, Vol. III )
  • Lord Kelvin's Machine (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1985 )
  • Two Views of a Cave Painting (1987, in: Kim Stanley Robinson (Eds.) And James Blaylock: Escape from Kathmandu / Two Views of a Cave Painting & The Idol's Eye )
  • The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives (Collective edition of 1, 2 and 4 short stories; 2008)
  • The Hole in Space (2008, in: James Blaylock: The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives )
  • The Adventure of the Ring of Stones (2014)
  • Earthbound Things (2016, in: James Blaylock: The Further Adventures of Langdon St. Ives )
  • The Further Adventures of Langdon St. Ives (Collective Edition of 3 and 4 and Short Story; 2016)
  • The Here-and-Thereians (2016, in: James Blaylock: The Further Adventures of Langdon St. Ives )

Ignacio Narbondo:

  • The Digging Leviathan (1984)
  • Zeuglodon (2012)
Balumnia (novels)
  • 1 The Elfin Ship (1982)
  • 2 The Disappearing Dwarf (1983)
    • English: The fortress of Selznak. Translated by Andreas Brandhorst. Heyne SF&F # 5288, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-08007-6 .
  • 3 The Stone Giant (1989)
    • German: Der Steinriese. Translated by Siglinde Müller. Heyne SF&F # 9028, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-14938-6 .
  • The Man in the Moon (2002)
Land of Dreams
  • Paper Dragons (1985, in: Robin McKinley (Ed.): Imaginary Lands )
  • Land of Dreams (1987)
    • German: Land of Dreams. Translated by Biggy Winter. Heyne SF&F # 4674, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-453-03938-6 .
Ghosts trilogy
  • 1 Night Relics (1994)
  • 2 Winter Tides (1997)
    • English: tides of winter. Translated by Karin König. Ullstein-Verlag (Ullstein # 25706), [Munich] 2003, ISBN 3-548-25706-2 .
  • 3 The Rainy Season (1999)
    • German: Brunnenkinder. Translated by Karin König. Ullstein-Taschenbuchverl. (Ullstein # 25280), Munich 2002, ISBN 3-548-25280-X .

Single novels

  • Offering the Bicentennial Edition of The Complete Twelve Hours of the Night: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of William Ashbless 1785 - 1985 (short novel, 1985, as William Hastings)
  • The Last Coin (1988)
  • The Magic Spectacles (1991)
  • The Paper Grail (1991)
  • Donuts (1994, short novel)
  • All the Bells on Earth (1995)
  • Thirteen Phantasms (short novel in: Omni Online, October 1996 )
  • Home Before Dark (2000, short novel)
  • Pilot Light (2007, short novel; with Tim Powers)
  • The Knights of the Cornerstone (2008)

Story collections

  • Thirteen Phantasms and Other Stories (2000)
  • On Pirates (2001; with Tim Powers)
  • In for a Penny (2003)
  • The Devils in the Details (2003; with Tim Powers)
  • Metamorphosis (2009)
  • The Shadow on the Doorstep (2009)
  • The Last Coin / The Paper Grail / All the Bells on Earth (2013, collective edition)

Short stories

1977:

  • Red Planet (in: Unearth, Summer 1977 )

1984:

  • Nets of Silver and Gold (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1984 )

1986:

  • The Shadow on the Doorstep ( Cthulhu-Mythos , in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1986 )
    • English: The shadow on the threshold. In: James Turner (Ed.): Trace of Shadows. Bastei-Lübbe, 2004, ISBN 3-404-15081-3 .
  • The Pink of Fading Neon (1986, in: Tim Powers and James Blaylock: The Way Down the Hill / The Pink of Fading Neon )

1987:

  • Myron Chester and the Toads (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1987 )

1989:

  • Unidentified Objects (in: Omni, July 1989 )

1991:

  • The Better Boy (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1991 ; with Tim Powers)
  • Bugs (1991, in: Lewis Shiner (Ed.): When the Music's Over )

1993:

  • We Traverse Afar (1993, in: David G. Hartwell (Ed.): Christmas Forever ; with Tim Powers)

1998:

  • The Old Curiosity Shop (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1998 )

2000:

  • The War of the Worlds (in: Sci Fiction, May 24, 2000 )
  • The Other Side (in: Sci Fiction, October 18, 2000 )

2001:

  • Slouching Toward Gayalou (2001, in: Tim Powers, James Blaylock (as William Ashbless): On Pirates ; with Tim Powers)
  • Those Two Liars (2001, in: Tim Powers, James Blaylock (as William Ashbless): On Pirates ; with Tim Powers)
  • His Own Back Yard (in: Sci Fiction, July 11, 2001 )
  • Small Houses (in: Sci Fiction, October 10, 2001 )

2002:

  • In for a Penny or The Man Who Believed in Himself (in: Sci Fiction, February 20, 2002 )

2003:

  • The Trismegistus Club (2003, in: James Blaylock: In for a Penny )
  • The Devil in the Details (2003, in: James Blaylock and Tim Powers: The Devils in the Details )
  • Fifty Cents (2003, in: James Blaylock and Tim Powers: The Devils in the Details ; with Tim Powers)

2004:

  • Hula Ville (in: Sci Fiction, November 3, 2004 )

2008:

  • Stone Eggs (in: Subterranean Online, Spring 2008 ; with Adriana Campoy)

2009:

  • The Dry Spell (in: Subterranean Online, Winter 2009 )
  • Houses (2009, in: James Blaylock: Metamorphosis ; with Alex Haniford)
  • P-38 (2009, in: James Blaylock: Metamorphosis ; with Brittany Cox)

2013:

  • Smithfield (2013, in: Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (Eds.): Queen Victoria's Book of Spells )

2014:

  • The Illumination of Smithfield (2014, in: Peggy Rae Sapienza, Jean Marie Ward, Bill Campbell and Sam Lubell (Eds.): Unconventional Fantasy: A Celebration of Forty Years of the World Fantasy Convention )

Anthologies

  • The Way Down the Hill / The Pink of Fading Neon (1986; with Tim Powers )
  • Escape from Kathmandu / Two Views of a Cave Painting & The Idol's Eye (1987; with Kim Stanley Robinson )
  • The Shadow on the Doorstep / Trilobyte (1987; with Edward Bryant )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Phantastik-Couch.de (James P. Blaylock). Retrieved May 28, 2011 .
  2. ^ FantasticFiction> James P Blaylock. Retrieved May 29, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Blaylock, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blaylock, James Paul (full name); Blaylock, James P. (alternative spelling); Blaylock, Jim (alternative spelling); Ashbless, William (pen name); Hastings, William (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Beach, California, USA