Ken Scholes

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Ken Scholes (born January 13, 1968 in Washington state ) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He is best known for his fantasy cycle Psalms of Isaac about a post apocalyptic world, which is published in Germany under the name Die Legende von Isaak by Blanvalet Verlag .

Life

He describes himself as a “trailer boy”, in other words a “trailer boy”, referring to the living conditions of his youth in a trailer settlement at the foot of Mount Rainier . As a 13-year-old, after reading Ray Bradbury's How to Keep and Feed a Muse , he dreamed of becoming a writer. He was encouraged by an English teacher and his mother, who had given him a small typewriter that was first rejected when he was around 15 years old. After his military service in Germany and a history degree at Western Washington University , he worked as a seaman, preacher, armorer and independent sales representative. It wasn't until his late twenties that he turned back to writing after a satisfying literature workshop with the publisher and editor of Fairwood Press and Talebones, Patrick Swenson. He sold his first short story in 2000.

The short story Into the Blank Where Life is Hurled won third place in the fourth quarter of the 2005 Writers of the Future competition. His first novel Lamentation was published - encouraged by his friend Jay Lake and his own wife Jen - in 2009 and was based on a previous short story called Of Metal Men and Scarlet Thread and Dancing with the Sunrise . Lamentation was to be the first part of a five-volume series with the English title Psalms of Isaak , in German Legende von Isaak .

Every Saturday he posts a column on the technique of writing on genreality.net. His works have so far been partially translated into German and French .

Ken Scholes lives with his wife, Jen West Scholes, and their twins in St. Helens near Portland , Oregon . Both parents share the upbringing of the two daughters, so that Scholes says he starts his literary work regularly at 3:30 p.m. Scholes jokingly referred to his close friend and science fiction writer Jay Lake as a twin brother separated at birth because of the physical and character similarities.

Works

Legend of Isaac

• Lamentation . Tor Books, New York 2009.
  • Fall of Man . Translated from the English by Simone Heller, Blanvalet, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-44226-672-2 .
• Canticle . Tor Books, New York 2009.
  • Hymn of praise . Translated from the English by Simone Heller, Blanvalet, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-44226-673-9 .
• Antiphon . Tor Books, New York 2010.
  • Song of Songs . Translated from the English by Simone Heller, Blanvalet, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-44226-674-6 .
• Requiem . Tor Books, New York 2013.

More novels & anthologies

• Last Flight of the Goddess Fairwood Press, Bonney Lake, Washington 2006.
• Long Walks, Last Flights, and Other Strange Journeys . Fairwood Press, Bonney Lake, Washington 2008. (Collection of short stories)
• Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects . Fairwood Press, Bonney Lake, Washington 2010. (Collection of short stories)

Short stories

• The Taking Night , Talebones, 2000
• So Sang the Girl Who Had No Name , Twilight Showcase, 2001 and Fortean Bureau, 2004
• Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk , Talebones, 2001 and Best of the Rest 3: Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2001, ed. by Brian Youmans, Suddenly Press, 2002 and Revolution SF, July 2006 and Escape Pod, February 2008
• Fearsome Jones' Discarded Love Collection , Fortean Bureau , July 2004
• A Good Hair Day in Anarchy , Lone Star Stories, June 2005 and Best of the Rest 4: Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2005, ed. by Brian Youmans, Suddenly Press, 2006
• Into the Blank Where Life is Hurled , L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXI, ed. Algis Budrys, Galaxy Press, 2005
• The Santaman Cycle , TEL: Stories , ed. by Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2005
• On the Settling of Ancient Scores , Son and Foe, November 2005
• The Man With Great Despair Behind His Eyes , Talebones, Winter 2005 and Prime Codex, ed. by Lawrence M. Schoen and Michael Livingston, Paper Golem, 2007
• That When I Waked I Cried to Dream Again , Insidious Reflections, January 2006
• Action Team-Ups Number Thirty-Seven , Shimmer Magazine , Winter 2006
• East of Eden and Just a Bit South , Aeon Speculative Fiction, February 2006
• There Once Was a Girl From Nantucket (A Fortean Love Story) (with John A. Pitts), Fortean Bureau , March 2006
• Of Metal Men and Scarlet Thread and Dancing with the Sunrise , Realms of Fantasy, August 2006 and Best New Fantasy 2, ed. Sean Wallace, Prime Books
• That Old-Time Religion , Weird Tales , November 2007
• Soon We Shall All Be Saunders , Polyphony 6, ed. by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2006
• One Small Step , Aeon Speculative Fiction, Issue 9, November 2006
• The Great Little Falls Revival , Science Fiction Trails, Pirate Dog Press, ed. by David P. Riley, 2007
• Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky , Clarkesworld Magazine , November 2007
• What Child Is This, I Ask the Midnight Clear , Shimmer Magazine Holiday Chapbook, Winter 2007
• The Doom of Love in Small Spaces , Realms of Fantasy , April 2008
• The God-Voices of Settler's Rest , Intergalactic Medicine Show , July 2008
• The Night the Stars Sang Out My Name , Abyss and Apex, Q3 2008.
• Invisible Empire of Ascending Light , Eclipse 2, Nightshade Books , ed.Jonathan Strahen, 2008
• The Second Gift Given , Clarkesworld Magazine , February 2009.
• A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon . In: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects . Fairwood Press 2010.
• Love in the Time of Car Alarms . In: The Trouble With Heroes, November 2009, and in: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects . Fairwood Press 2010.
• In Time of Despair and Great Darkness . In: Realms of Fantasy, December 2009, and in: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects . Fairwood Press 2010.
• Grief-stepping to the Widower's Waltz . In: Polyphony 7 , ed. v. Deborah Layne, Forrest Aguirre, Wheatland Press 2010, and in: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects . Fairwood Press 2010.
• The Starship Mechanic . (2010) with Jay Lake, in: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, July 2011 and in: The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 24, September 2011.
• Of Missing Kings and Backward Dreams and the Honoring of Lies . In: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects . Fairwood Press 2010.
• Four Clowns of the Apocalypse and the Mecca of Mirth . In: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects . Fairwood Press 2010.
• The God-Voices of Settler's Rest . In: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects . Fairwood Press 2010.
• What Child Is this I Ask the Midnight Clear . In: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects . Fairwood Press 2010.
• A Symmetry of Serpents and Doves . In: Metatropolis: Cascadia, November 2010.
• Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair . On: tor.com, January 12, 2011.

Poems

• The Cowardly Lion's Slipper Wish . Talebones # 34, winter 2006.

Essays

• My Pal the Philosopher Clown . World Fantasy Convention 2009.
• Afterword: A Return to the Imagination Forest . In: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects . Fairwood Press 2010.
• Anything Could Be True . In: Jay Lake: The Sky That Wraps . Subterranean Press 2010.

literature

• Interview with Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta. In: Shimmer, summer 2006.
• Ken Rand: Interviewing the Interviewer . In: Human Visions: The Talebones Interviews, November 2006.
• Ken Scholes: Ambushed by Story . In: Locus, # 578 March 2009.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ken Scholes in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ken Scholes in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Ken Scholes at Open Library
• Ken Scholes in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Ken Scholes website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.phantastik-couch.de/ken-scholes.html
2. ↑ http://www.starshipsofa.com/anthology/authors/
3. ↑ Trailer Boy on Character, Part 3, Point-of-view ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . genreality.net, November 19, 2011. Retrieved November 21, 2011. 
4. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from May 1st, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ http://jaylake.livejournal.com/
6. ^ Nothing to Lament About , Publishers Weekly, December 2008
7. ↑ http://kenscholes.livejournal.com/114663.html
8. ↑ http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10524
9. ↑ http://kenscholes.livejournal.com/profile
10. ↑ Review of the Fall of Man . In: standard.at , June 4, 2011. Accessed November 21, 2011.
11. ↑ Christel Scheja : Review of Lobgesang . From: fantasyguide.de, March 2011. Accessed November 21, 2011.
12. ↑ http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/scholes_11_07
13. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/scholes_02_09
15. ^ Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair . From: tor.com, January 12, 2011. Retrieved November 21, 2011.