Michael Butterworth (writer, 1947)

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Michael Butterworth (born April 24, 1947 in Manchester ) is a British science fiction and horror author and publisher.

Life

Butterworth published his first SF short story Girl in 1966 in SF magazine New Worlds , followed by about a dozen other articles in the magazine by the mid-1980s. From 1971 to 1974 Butterworth published an irregular underground magazine, initially under the title Corridor , then from 1975 as Wordworks . In 2010, an eighth and so far last edition appeared as Corridor 8 .

In 1976, Butterworth along with David Britton the publisher Savoy Books , whose publications were often the subject of police seizure and judicial proceedings.

Together with David Britton he edited two anthologies and co-wrote the first novel in the Lord Horror series, which was confiscated immediately after publication in 1989 and banned in 1991 under the British Obscene Publications Act . In 1992 Butterworth managed to successfully challenge the verdict against the first volume. He was also the editor of the following Lord Horror books.

In 1976, The Time of the Hawklords was the first volume in a Hawklord series , followed by Queens of Deliria (1977). Michael Moorcock appears as co-author of both novels , although according to his statement he was only minimally involved in the first volume and not at all in the second. The subject of the series is the actual rock group Hawkwind and a fictional instrument that can alleviate all pain and all fear.

In 1977 Butterworth wrote a number of novel versions for episodes of season 2 of the British science fiction television series Moon Base Alpha 1 .

bibliography

Time of the Hawklords (novels)
  • 1 The Time of the Hawklords (1976; with Michael Moorcock )
  • 2 Queens of Deliria (1977)
Space 1999 - Space 1999 Year 2 (novels)
  • 1 Planets of Peril (1977)
    • German: Alpha 1 - Station of the Lost. Translated by Ingrid Rothmann. Bastei Lübbe (moon station 1999 # 25001), 1977, ISBN 3-404-00752-2 . Also as: Station of the Lost. In: Hans Wolf Sommer (as HW Springer) (Ed.): Mondstation 1999 - Volume 1. Apex Science Fiction Classic # 56, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7487-2049-2 (e-book).
  • 2 Space: 1999: Mind-Breaks of Space (1977; with J. Jeff Jones)
    • German: The uncanny power. Translated by Leni Sobez. Bastei Lübbe (moon station 1999 # 25002), 1977, ISBN 3-404-00769-7 .
  • 3 The Space Jackers (1977)
    • German: The double. Translated by Ingrid Rothmann. Bastei Lübbe (moon station 1999 # 25003), 1977, ISBN 3-404-00780-8 .
  • 4 Space: 1999: Year 2: # 4 The Psychomorph (1977)
    • German: Der Weltenfresser. Translated by Leni Sobez. Bastei Lübbe (moon station 1999 # 25004), 1977, ISBN 3-404-00800-6 .
  • 5 Space: 1999: Year 2: # 5 The Time Fighters (1977)
    • German: The time attack. Translated by Leni Sobez. Bastei Lübbe (moon station 1999 # 25005), 1978, ISBN 3-404-00807-3 .
  • 6 Space: 1999: Year 2: # 6 The Edge of the Infinite (1977)
    • German: fight for the future. Translated by Leni Sobez. Bastei Lübbe (moon station 1999 # 25006), 1978, ISBN 3-404-00899-5 .
Short stories

1966:

  • Girl (in: New Worlds SF, May 1966 )
  • The Steel Corkscrew (in: New Worlds SF, October 1966 )

1967:

  • Concentrate 1 (in: New Worlds Speculative Fiction, # 174 August 1967 )
  • The Baked Bean Factory (in: New Worlds Speculative Fiction, # 176 October 1967 )

1968:

  • Concentrate 2 (in: New Worlds, # 181 April 1968 )
    • German: Stick. Translated by Frank Rainer Scheck , Rolf Eckart John and Ursula Clemeur. In: Frank Rainer Scheck (Ed.): Koitus 80. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1970.

1969:

  • Circularization of Condensed Conventional Straight-Line Word-Image Structures (in: New Worlds, # 192 July 1969 )
  • Postatomic (1969, in: Langdon Jones (Ed.): The New SF: An original anthology of modern speculative fiction )

1970:

  • Concentrate 3 (in: New Worlds, # 197 January 1970 )
  • 6B 4C DD1 22 (in: New Worlds, # 198 February 1970 )
  • The Terminal (in: New Worlds, # 199 March 1970 )

1972:

  • Absurd and Phantastic (in: Corridor # 3, May-June 1972 )

1973:

1975:

  • The Harme-Oats Effect (in: Science Fiction Monthly, February 1975 ; with J. Jeff Jones)

1976:

1978:

  • The Pub That Exploded (1978, in: David Britton and Michael Butterworth: The Savoy Book )

1979:

  • Outline One (in: New Worlds, # 216 September 1979 )

1982:

Anthologies
  • The Savoy Book (1978; with David Britton)
  • Savoy Dreams (1984; with David Britton)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pre-Savoy Publications
  2. ↑ Mark Coles: Last author banned as 'obscene' comes out of hiding for Manchester exhibition on boundary-pushing books. Article dated August 16, 2014, accessed December 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ There is an occasional statement in the literature that the Lord Horror ban was the first since the Last Exit Brooklyn ban in 1968 and the last since then. This is only true if you limit yourself to book publications prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act .
personal data
SURNAME Butterworth, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British science fiction and horror writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester