Larry Eisenberg

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Larry Eisenberg (2016)

Lawrence Benjamin Eisenberg (as the writer Larry Eisenberg ; born December 21, 1919 in New York City ; died December 25, 2018 in Lincoln , Massachusetts ) was an American science fiction writer and medical technician . He is known for his satirical SF short stories and limericks .

Life

Eisenberg was the son of Sidney Eisenberg, a furniture seller, and Yetta, nee Yellen. He studied mathematics at the City College of New York , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1940 . From 1945 to 1946 he served in the US Air Force . In 1952 he made the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn to master as an electrical engineer and received his doctorate in 1966. From 1948 to 1952 he was a lecturer at the New York Institute of Technology , then worked until 1955 as a project engineer and then to 1956 as a lecturer at the City College of New York . From 1956 to 1958 he developed digital circuits at Digitronics in Roslyn . From 1958 deputy director of the electronics laboratory at Rockefeller University in New York, he was there from 1985 adjunct professor and dealt with developments in the field of medical technology .

In 1962 he published his first SF short story, The Mynah Matter , and since then over 50 others in SF magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , Galaxy Science Fiction and If , as well as in numerous anthologies . The series of satirical short stories about Professor Emmett Duckworth, Nobel Prize winner and slightly mad scientist, whose numerous inventions always have comically fatal consequences, is best known. Some of these stories were collected in The Best Laid Schemes in 1971 . The time travel novel The Villa of the Ferromonte , which is occasionally attributed to him , is written by Lawrence Eisenberg , who was also born in New York .

About his inclination towards satirical SF, he said: "I like to mix humor with science fiction, especially when I can impale an unpleasant aspect of our society."

He is also known for his numerous limericks, which have been collected in two volumes. With them he was an institution on the reading pages of the New York Times . In 2011 he described himself in a limerick like this:

A nonagenarian, I,
A sometime writer of sci-fi,
Biomed engineer,
Gen'rally of good cheer,
With lim'ricks in ready supply.

Eisenberg married Frances Brenner in 1950, with whom he had a daughter (* 1954) and a son (* 1956).

bibliography

Short stories

  • The Mynah Matter (1962)
  • The Fastest Draw (1963, also as The Marvelous Marshal )
  • The Pirokin Effect (1964)
  • The Scent of Love (1964)
  • What happened to Auguste Clarot? (1967)
    • German: experiences of a reporter. In: Harlan Ellison (Ed.): 15 Science Fiction Stories II. Heyne Anthologies # 34, 1970.
  • The Two Lives of Ben Coulter (1967)
    • German: The violin virtuoso. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): World of Illusions. Heyne SF&F # 3110, 1967.
  • Conqueror (1967)
  • The Saga of DMM (1967)
    • German: Explosiv !. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): At the end of all dreams. Heyne SF&F # 3204, 1970.
  • The Time of His Life (1968)
  • Hold your fire! (1969)
  • The Open Secrets (1969)
  • Project Amnion (1969)
  • Duckworth's IQ Soup (1969, also as IQ Soup )
  • A Matter of Time and Place (1970)
  • Child's Play (1970, also as Uncle Sam's Children )
  • A Matter of Recordings (1970)
  • The Chameleon (1970)
    • German: The chameleon . In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): The uprising of the Kryonauts. Heyne SF&F # 3454, 1975, ISBN 3-453-30338-5 .
  • Human Element (1970)
  • The Fifth Planet (1970)
  • The Orgy (1970)
  • The Quintopods (1970)
  • Duckworth's Forever (1971)
  • Is There Life in Inner Space? (1971)
  • The Irresistible Party Chairman (1971)
  • The Mighty Matterhorn (1971)
  • The Vanishing Borough (1971)
  • Too Many Cooks (1971)
  • The Teacher (1971)
  • Heart of the Giant (1971)
  • The Buyer (1971)
  • Duckworth and the Sound Probe (1971)
  • The Grand Illusions (1972)
  • The Soul Music of Duckworth's Dibs (1972)
  • The Executive Council (1972)
  • The Merchant (1973)
  • Sikh, Sikh, Sikh (1973)
  • The Baby (1974)
  • Televerite (1974)
  • Time and Duckworth (1974)
  • Where There's Smoke (1974)
  • The Money Machine (1974)
  • Elephants Sometimes Forget (1974)
  • The Look Alike Revolution (1974)
  • The Spurious President (1975)
  • Dr. Snow Maiden (1975)
  • My Random Friend (1977)
  • The Interface (1978)
  • Djinn & Duckworth (1979)
  • Me and My Shadow (1986)
  • Live It Up, Inc. (1988)
    • German: Live yourself from GmbH. In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): The noise conspiracy. Heyne SF&F # 4673, 1990, ISBN 3-453-03937-8 .

Short story collection

  • The Best Laid Schemes (1971)

Limericks (with George Gordon)

  • Limericks for Lantzmen (1965)
  • Limericks for the Loo (1966)

Others

  • with George Gordon: Games People Shouldn't Play (1966)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lawrence Eisenberg / Biography ( Memento from November 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ I enjoy wedding humor with science fiction, particularly where some unsavory aspect of our society can be pricked. Quoted from: Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Detroit 1979, p. 888.
  3. ^ Andrew Rosenthal: Happy Birthday, Larry Eisenberg . In: New York Times , December 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ Tony Gervino: The 6th Floor's Poet in Residence . In: New York Times , July 14, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Eisenberg, Larry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eisenberg, Lawrence Benjamin (full name); Eisenberg, Lawrence (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2018
Place of death Lincoln (Massachusetts)