James Sutherland (writer)

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James Edward Sutherland (born August 25, 1948 in Greenwich , Connecticut ) is an American science fiction writer.

Life

Sutherland is the son of college teacher Hector H. Sutherland and teacher Martha Sutherland, nee Scofield. He studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1970 . He then went to South Korea as a Peace Corps volunteer . From 1974 he continued his studies at the State University of New York .

In 1969, as a participant in the second Clarion workshop , a renowned writing course for budding science fiction authors, Sutherland met the author and editor Harlan Ellison , who promoted him from then on. His first SF short story At the Second Solstice appeared in the anthology Clarion II in 1972 .

In 1974 his first and so far only novel Stormtrack , which is about life on a space station against the backdrop of an overpopulated earth, was published as Harlan Ellison Discovery # 1 at Pyramid Books . The novel was translated into German (as signals from the cosmos ) and Italian.

The short story The Amazon link was part of Ellison's legendary, never published third Dangerous Visions - anthology provided.

bibliography

novel
  • Stormtrack (1974)
Short stories
  • At the Second Solstice (1972)
  • Beside Still Waters (1972, with Edward Bryant)
  • Swords of Ifthan (1973)
  • The Amazonas Link (unreleased)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Sutherland, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sutherland, James Edward (full name); Sutherland, James E. (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenwich , Connecticut