Justin Leiber
Justin Fritz Leiber (born July 8, 1938 in Chicago , Illinois , † March 22, 2016 in Tallahassee , Florida ) was an American university professor and writer.
Life
Justin Fritz Leiber was born in Chicago in 1938 as the son of the science fiction writer Fritz Leiber . Leiber studied philosophy at the University of Oxford , where he received a bachelor's degree . He then received his PhD from the University of Chicago . From the 1960s he taught at various universities in the states of New York and Texas . He later became a philosophy professor at Florida State University . He was also a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford.
Leiber's scientific interests included philosophy, linguistics and cognitive science . In his questions he often took up approaches from science fiction, as for example in 1985 in his book Can Animals and Machines Be Persons? In addition to his numerous scientific publications, Leiber also wrote several fiction books. In 1980 he published Beyond Rejection, his first science fiction novel, which was followed by two sequels. With The Sword and the Eye (1985) and The Sword and the Tower (1986) he published two fantasy novels.
In March 2016, Leiber died of prostate cancer in Tallahassee, Florida, aged 77 . He was married and had two children.
Publications
- novel
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Beyond
- Beyond Rejection (1980); German: Ego-Transfer , ISBN 978-3-404-22064-9
- Beyond Humanity (1987)
- Beyond Gravity (1988)
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Saga of the House of Eigin
- The Sword and the Eye (1985)
- The Sword and the Tower (1986)
- Non-fiction
- Can Animals and Machines Be Persons? (1985)
Web links
- Justin Leiber in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Justin Leiber at Open Library
- Justin Leiber (1938-2016) , Locus Online , April 5, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Justin Leiber in: Robert Reginald Contemporary Science Fiction Authors. , Borgo Press, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leiber, Justin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leiber, Justin Fritz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American university professor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 2016 |
| Place of death | Tallahassee , Florida |