Lawrence Watt-Evans

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Lawrence Watt-Evans (* 26. July 1954 in Arlington , Massachusetts ) is an American science fiction - and fantasy - writer . The name is a pseudonym . The author's real name is Lawrence Watt Evans , another pseudonym he mainly uses for his science fiction publications is Nathan Archer . As the fourth of six children, he wrote his first stories at the age of eight.

biography

Having the Bedford High School had finished, he enrolled in the Princeton University a concluded but without academic title from. Because of Princeton University regulations , he was unable to enroll for a year. Watt Evans used the time to get seriously involved in writing. However, he could not sell any of his works to a publisher . Until he wrote The Lure of the Basilisk in 1979 and the work was published in 1980. Afterwards he devoted himself exclusively to his work as a writer.

Although he published the first works under his real name, he used a pseudonym for his first novel . It was his editor Lester del Rey who added the hyphen to Watts' name, and thus the pseudonym Lawrence Watt-Evans came about. The background was that Evans wanted to avoid confusion with a contemporary non-fiction author , Lawrence Evans . So del Rey used the hyphen and commented on it with "to make it more distinctive", something like: "To make the name more distinctive."

Between 1994 and 1996 Evans was President of the Horror Writers Association . At the same time he was "Eastern Regional Director and treasurer" of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America . From 1995 to 1997 he was an equal partner of screenwriter Terry Rossio , who jointly operated under the name Malicious Press and brought out Deathrealm magazine with editor Stephen Mark Rainey . He was also responsible for the webzine Helix SF , which was published for ten quarters .

In April 2005, Watt-Evans announced that the first drafts of his novel The Spriggan Mirror would go online. He used a modified version of the Street Performer Protocol . Over time, he completed the novel and published it on his website.

A revised version of the novel was then marketed commercially. It was published both electronically and in paper form and the previous free version was taken off the servers . Using this method, Watt-Evans published several serial novels online over time: The Vondish Ambassador 2007, Realms of Light started November 2008 (his only non-Ethshar serialized novel). In June 2010 he put the first part of The Final Calling online (later published under the name The Unwelcome Warlock ). In 2012, the fifth serial with The Sorcerer's Widow followed .

In June 2013 Watt-Evans started a crowdfunding campaign for his previously unpublished science fiction novel Vika's Avenger , this novel has no relation to his previous works. In July of the same year, his sixth Ethsar serial novel, Ishta's Companion, started .

Awards

  • 1988 Hugo Award for Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers - Why I left Harry's hamburger restaurant, which was open all night , in the Best Short Story category
  • 1988: Asimov's Reader Poll - Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers
  • 1990: Asimov's Reader Poll for Windwagon Smith and the Martians

Works

Fantasy

Cycle Lords of Dûs

  • The Lure of the Basilisk (1980)
  • The Seven Altars of Dûsarra (1981)
  • The Sword of Bheleu (1982)
  • The Book of Silence (1984)

The Worlds of Shadow cycle

  • Out of This World (1993)
  • In the Empire of Shadow (1995)
  • The Reign of the Brown Magician (1996)

The Obsidian Chronicles

  • Dragon Weather (1999)
  • The Dragon Society (2001)
  • Dragon Venom (2003)

Ethshar novels

  • The Misenchanted Sword (1985)
  • With a Single Spell (1987)
  • The Unwilling Warlord (1989)
  • The Blood of a Dragon (1991)
  • Taking Flight (1993)
  • The Spell of the Black Dagger (1993)
  • Night of Madness (2000)
  • Ithanalin's Restoration (2002)
  • The Spriggan Mirror (2006)
  • The Vondish Ambassador (2007)
  • The Unwelcome Warlock (2010)
  • The Sorcerer's Widow (2013)
  • Relics of War: A Legend of Ethshar (2014)

Ethshar short stories

  • Portrait of a Hero
  • The Guardswoman
  • Sirinita's Dragon
  • The Bloodstone
  • Night flight
  • Weaving spells
  • Ingredients
  • The God in Red

Trilogy The Annals of the Chosen

  • The Wizard Lord (2006)
  • The Ninth Talisman (2007)
  • The Summer Palace (2008)

The Fall of the Sorcerers

  • A Young Man Without Magic (2009)
  • Above His Proper Station (2010)

Fantasy without cycles

  • The Rebirth of Wonder (1992)
  • Split Heirs (in collaboration with Esther Friesner) (1993)
  • Touched by the Gods (1997)

Science fiction

The War Surplus cycle

  • The Cyborg and the Sorcerers (1982)
  • The Wizard and the War Machine (1987)

Star Trek novels

  • Voyager: Ragnarok (as Nathan Archer) (1995)
  • Deep Space Nine: Valhalla (as Nathan Archer) (1995)

Carlisle Hsing

  • Nightside City (1989)
  • Realms of Light (2010)

Science fiction without cycles

  • The Chromosomal Code (1984)
  • Shining Steel (1986)
  • Denner's Wreck (1988)
  • The Spartacus File (in collaboration with Carl Parlagreco) (2005)
  • Spider-Man: Goblin Moon (as Nathan Archer, with Kurt Busiek) (1999)
  • Mars Attacks: Martian Deathtrap (as Nathan Archer) (1996)
  • Cold War (as Nathan Archer) (1997)
  • Concrete Jungle (as Nathan Archer) (1995)

horror

  • The Nightmare People (1990)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Watt-Evans's next novel published under Street Performer Protocol . Boing Boing. May 11, 2005. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. 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. Retrieved December 4, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.boingboing.net
  2. ^ Hugo Award 1988 . Retrieved December 4, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Watt-Evans, Lawrence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Watt Evans, Lawrence (real name); Archer, Nathan (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Arlington