John Brosnan

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John Raymond Brosnan (born October 7, 1947 in Perth ; died presumably on April 8, determined to be dead on April 11, 2005 in Harrow , London ) was an Australian writer who, in addition to science fiction and fantasy, also wrote non -fiction books about films and Kino wrote. Together with other authors he published under the community pseudonyms James Blackstone, Simon Ian Childer, Harry Adam Knight and John Raymond.

Life

Born in Perth, Western Australia, Brosnan moved to Sydney in the late 1960s and moved to London in 1970 where he stayed for the rest of his life. From 1972 he published his first science fiction stories in magazines, and in 1981 his first novel Skyship appeared . He had previously written a number of film books, including James Bond in the Cinema (1972) and Future Tense: The Cinema of Science Fiction (1978), which won the Eaton Award for best non-fiction that same year . In addition, Brosnan wrote much of the film articles in the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1979). Brosnan is the author of around two dozen novels, some in collaboration with Leroy Kettle. The best known of these slightly ironic horror SF novels is Bedlam (1992), which was filmed in 1994 as Beyond Bedlam . Also Slimer (1983 Leroy Kettle) and Carnosaur (1984) were filmed ( Slimer 1995 as Proteus , German Title Proteus - The experiment ; Carnosaur 1993 as Carnosaurus ).

Among his more ambitious, often allusive stereotypes of the genre citing works is the Skylords - trilogy that in a post-apocalyptic world after the gene is -Kriegen, which is dominated by warlords miles of airships, and when the sky Men was also translated trilogy into German. Furthermore, the novel Mothership with a feudal world that has developed on board a generation ship . The sequel Mothership Awakening could Brosnan no longer complete. The two novels in the humorous fantasy series Anderwelt were also published in translation.

Brosnan died in 2005 of an acute pancreatitis , presumably in his sleep a few days before April 11th, when he was missing by friends and his body was found in his apartment.

bibliography

Sky Lords
  • 1 The Sky Lords (1988)
    • German: The power of the sky lords. Translated by Rosemarie Hundertmarck. Heyne SF & F # 5010, 1993, ISBN 3-453-06594-8 .
  • 2 War of the Sky Lords (1989)
    • German: The War of the Lords of Heaven. Translated by Rosemarie Hundertmarck. Heyne SF & F # 5011, 1993, ISBN 3-453-06595-6 .
  • 3 The Fall of the Sky Lords (1991)
    • English: The fall of the heavens. Translated by Rosemarie Hundertmarck. Heyne SF & F # 5012, 1993, ISBN 3-453-06596-4 .
Damned & Fancy / Anderwelt
  • 1 Damned & Fancy (1995)
    • German: Darned and bewitched. Translated by Thomas Hag. Heyne General Series # 10051, 1996, ISBN 3-453-11648-8 . Also as: darned and sewn up. In: John Brosnan: Anderwelt. 2005.
  • 2 Have Demon, Will Travel (1996)
    • English: Hocus pocus Hexenkuss. Translated by Thomas Hag. Heyne General Series # 10483, 1997, ISBN 3-453-13065-0 .

German collective edition:

  • Otherworld. Heyne SF & F # 53029, 2005, ISBN 3-453-53029-2 (collective edition of 1 and 2).
Mothership
  • 1 Mothership (2004)
  • 2 Mothership Awakening (not published)
Single novels
  • Skyship (1981)
  • The Midas Deep (1983)
  • Slimer (1983; with Leroy Kettle as Harry Adam Knight)
  • Carnosaur (1984)
  • The Fungus (1985; also: Death Spore , 1990; with Leroy Kettle as Harry Adam Knight)
  • Tendrils (1986; with Leroy Kettle as Simon Ian Childer)
  • Torched! (1986; with John Baxter as James Blackstone)
  • Worm (1987)
  • Bedlam (1992; with Leroy Kettle as Harry Adam Knight)
  • The Opoponax Invasion (1993)
Short stories

1972:

  • The Bethlehem File (in: Macrocosm, Summer 1972 )

1975:

  • Conversation on a Starship in Warpdrive (1975, in: Philip Strick (Ed.): Antigrav )

1976:

  • The Junk Shop (1976, in: SF Digest # 1 ; also: Junk Shop , 1983)

1986:

  • The One and Only Tale from The White Horse (in: Interzone, # 15 Spring 1986 )

1989:

  • An Eye in Paradise (in: Interzone, # 27 January-February 1989 )

2013:

  • Barry McKenzie Meets Jerry Cornelius (2013, in: Raucous Caucus, # 2 )
Non-fiction
  • James Bond in the Cinema (1972)
  • Movie Magic: The Story of Special Effects in the Cinema (1974)
  • The Horror People (1976)
  • Future Tense: The Cinema of Science Fiction (1978)
  • The Primal Screen: A History of Science FIction Film (1991)
as editor
  • Tree Rot Too ( True Rat magazine issue , 1974; with Leroy Kettle)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Brosnan, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brosnan, John Raymond (full name); Blackstone, James (pen name); Childer, Simon Ian (pen name); Knight, Harry Adam (pseudonym); Raymond, John (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian science fiction and fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Perth , Western Australia
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2005
Place of death London Borough of Harrow