Mark S. Geston

Mark Symington Geston (born June 20, 1946 in Atlantic City , New Jersey ) is an American science fiction writer.

Life

Geston is the son of John C. Geston and Mary, née Symington. Both parents were teachers. After attending Abington High School in Abington , Massachusetts , he studied history at Kenyon College in Gambier , Ohio , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1968 and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa . He then studied law with a Root-Tilden Scholarship at New York University School of Law , where he earned the degree of Juris Doctor in 1971 . He has since worked full-time as a lawyer in Boise , Idaho .

He wrote his first novel Lords of the Starship , published in 1967 , when he was still a student. It is about the construction of a huge spaceship on the destroyed earth in a distant future. It turns out the project is a hoax and it all ends in disintegration and destruction. The second novel Out of the Mouth of the Dragon , published in 1969, is set in the same fictional world . In the following years Geston wrote two more novels, The Day Star (1972) and The Siege of Wonder (1976), only to fall silent for a long time. Only in the 1990s did two short stories appear and the novel Mirror to the Sky (1992), which deals with extraterrestrial artifacts that are deeply disturbing to human viewers. Geston's first three novels were also translated into German.

A first marriage in 1971 was divorced in 1972. In 1976 he married again. Geston has two daughters and one son.

bibliography

Novels

• Lords of the Starship (1967)
  • German: The Starship . Heyne SF&F # 3419, 1974, ISBN 3-453-30309-1 .
• Out of the Mouth of the Dragon (1969)
  • German: The world of ruins . Heyne SF&F # 3423, 1974, ISBN 3-453-30313-X .
• The Day Star (1972)
  • German: The star of hope . Heyne SF&F # 3428, 1975, ISBN 3-453-30318-0 .
• The Siege of Wonder (1976)
• German collective edition: Das Schiff: 3 novels in one volume . Heyne SF&F # 4515, 1988, ISBN 3-453-02770-1 (contains The Starship , The World of Ruins , The Star of Hope ).
• Mirror to the Sky (1992)
• The Books of the Wars (2009, collective edition, includes Lords of the Starship , Out of the Mouth of the Dragon , The Siege of Wonder )

Short stories

• The Stronghold (1974)
• Falconer (1993)
• The Allies (1998)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 172.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 478.
• John Clute : Geston, Mark S. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
• Don D'Ammassa : Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Facts On File, New York 2005, ISBN 0-8160-5924-1 , p. 159 f.
• John V. Garner: Geston, Mark S (ymington) . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , p. 313.
• Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A Checklist, 1700–1974 with contemporary science fiction authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , p. 912.
• Robert Reginald: Contemporary Science Fiction Authors. Arno Press, New York 1974, ISBN 0-405-06332-6 , p. 107.
• Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 185.

Web links

• Mark S. Geston in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Mark S. Geston in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
• Works by and about Mark S. Geston at Open Library
• Mark S. Geston in Fantastic Fiction (English)