James Sutherland (writer)
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
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Stormtrack (1974)
- German: signals from the cosmos. Ullstein 2000 # 96 (3154), 1975, ISBN 3-548-03154-4 .
- Short stories
- At the Second Solstice (1972)
- Beside Still Waters (1972, with Edward Bryant)
- Swords of Ifthan (1973)
- The Amazonas Link (unreleased)
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 404.
- Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 950.
- Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A Checklist, 1700-1974 with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , p. 1093.
Web links
- James Sutherland in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about James Sutherland (writer) at Open Library
personal data | |
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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 |