Michael Kurland

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Michael Joseph Kurland (* 1938 in New York ) is an American author, best known for his science fiction and crime novels .

Life

Michael Kurland began his career as a science fiction novelist. His first release in the US in 1964 was Ten Years to Doomsday (with Chester Anderson ). Other well-known works are Tomorrow Knight , Pluribus , Perchance , and The Unicorn Girl . The Unicorn Girl was the middle volume in the Greenwich Village Trilogy, written by three different authors. The other two authors are Chester Anderson and TA Waters. For the first part, Butterfly Child , Chester Anderson was nominated for the Hugo Award in 1968 .

Because of the success of his crime stories in The Infernal Device (nominated for the Edgar Award in 1980), Michael Kurland turned his attention to writing detective stories. Several of his subsequent stories were sequels to The Infernal Device and use Sherlock Holmes ' opponent Professor Moriarty as the main character.

He also has two anthologies with Sherlock Holmes published short stories. My Sherlock Holmes tells stories from the perspective of characters other than Watson and Holmes, while the stories in Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years take place during the time when Holmes was believed to be dead.

As a preparation for his later success as a fantasy writer, Kurland wrote the two novels Ten Little Wizards and A Study in Magic . You play in Randall Garrett's fantastic world of Lord Darcy.

He is also the author of several guide and reference books such as How to Solve a Murder: the Forensic Handbook (How to solve a murder case: The forensic Manual) How to Try a Murder: the Handbook for Armchair Lawyers (How to murder negotiated: the Handbook for Armchair Lawyers) and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Improving Your Memory .

Michael Kurland lives in Petaluma , California.

bibliography

War Incorporated (novel series)
  • 1 Third Force (1967)
  • 2 Tank War (1968)
  • 3 Police Action (1969)
  • A Plague of Spies (1969)
Professor Moriarty
  • 1 The Infernal Device (1978); reprinted in
  • 2 Death by Gaslight (1982); reprinted in The Infernal Device and others
  • 3 The Great Game (2001)
  • 4 The Empress of India (2006)
  • 5 Who Thinks Evil (2014)
  • The Paradol Paradox (2001)
  • The Infernal Device and others (Collection)
  • Years Ago and in a Different Place (in: My Sherlock Holmes , 2003)
  • Reichenbach (in: Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years , 2004)
Lord Darcy (series of novels)
  • Ten Little Wizards (1988)
    • English: Ten little magicians. Translated by Ralph Tegtmeier. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 20148, 1990, ISBN 3-404-20148-5 .
  • A Study in Sorcery (1989)
    • English: A Study in Wizardry. Translated by Ralph Tegtmeier. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 20178, 1992, ISBN 3-404-20178-7 .
Alexander Brass (series of novels)
  • Too Soon Dead (1997)
  • The Girls in the High-Heeled Shoes (1998)
Novels
  • Ten Years to Doomsday (1964, with Chester Anderson )
    • German: The threat from space. Translated by Helmut Bittner. Winther Books # 2001, 1966.
  • The Unicorn Girl (1969)
  • Transmission Error (1970)
  • Pluribus (1975)
  • The Whenabouts of Burr (1975)
    • English: Where is Aaron Burr? Translated by Thomas Ziegler. Ullstein book # 31058, 1983, ISBN 3-548-31058-3 .
  • Tomorrow Knight (1976)
  • The Princes of Earth (1978)
  • The Last President (1980)
  • Psi Hunt (1980)
  • First Cycle (1982, posthumous edition of a manuscript by H. Beam Piper)
  • Star Griffin (1987)
  • Perchance (1988)
  • Button Bright (1990)
Collections
  • Images, Conceits & Lollygags (2003)
  • The Trials of Quintilian: Three Stories of Rome's Greatest Detective (2011)
  • Victorian Villainy: A Collection of Moriarty Stories (2011)
Short stories
  • Elementary (1964, with Laurence M. Janifer)
  • Bond of Brothers (1965)
  • Please State My Business (1965)
  • Spadework (1968)
  • Fimbulommer (1970, with Randall Garrett)
  • Specula (1972)
  • A Matter of Taste (1973)
  • Think Only This of Me (1973)
  • Small World (1973)
  • Vanishing Act (1976, with Bill Pronzini)
  • A Brief Dance to the Music of the Spheres (1983)
  • Poor Joe (1990, with Avram Davidson)
  • Blind Justice (1993)
  • In the Blood (1995)
  • The Stolen Saint Simon (2000)
  • Great Caesar's Ghost (2003)
  • Years Ago and in a Different Place (2003)
  • The Rite Stuff (2004)
  • Reichenbach (2004)
  • Four Hundred Slaves (2005)
  • The Picture of Oscar Wilde (2008)
  • Splash (2012, with Don Webb, Richard A. Lupoff , Scott A. Cupp, Michael Mallory, Paul Di Filippo and James Patrick Kelly)
  • Go Karts for God (2012)
  • Lily and the Dragon (2014)
Anthologies (as editor)
  • My Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective (2003)
  • Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (2004)
  • Sherlock Holmes: The American Years (2010)
Non-fiction
  • The Spymaster's Handbook (1988)
  • Encyclopedia of Horrifica (1992, with Lydia C. Marano)
  • A Gallery of Rogues: Portraits in True Crime (1994)
  • How to Solve a Murder: The Forensic Handbook (1995)
  • How to Try a Murder: The Handbook for Armchair Lawyers (1997)
  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1998)
  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Improving Your Memory (1999, with Richard A Lupoff)
  • Complete Idiot's Guide to Unsolved Mysteries (2000)
  • Encyclopedia of World Espionage (2000)
  • Irrefutable Evidence: Adventures in the History of Forensic Science (2009)
  • It's a Mystery to Me (2012)

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personal data
SURNAME Kurland, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kurland, Michael Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH new York