Mike Ashley (Author)

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Michael Raymond Donald Ashley (born October 1, 1948 in Southall , Middlesex ) is an English bibliographer , author and editor of science fiction , fantasy and crime novels .

Ahleys is considered an expert on the history of science fiction and science fiction magazines in particular. His first relevant publication was the four-volume anthology The History of the Science Fiction Magazine , "more of a critical study than an anthology" due to extensive introductions and supplementary bibliographies. Accordingly, his now four-volume Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines , for whose second volume Transformations Ashley was nominated for the Hugo Award in 2006, can be seen as a continuation and extension of this first work. In addition to this first anthology series, Ashley is the editor of numerous other anthologies on a wide variety of genres and topics, especially over three dozen volumes of the Mammoth Book series. Ashley sees himself only as an editor and anthologist on the side, the main thing for him is his work as a researcher, bibliographer and lexicographer. It is also for this work that he was particularly recognized, for example he was awarded the Bram Stoker Award in 1996 together with William G. Contento for the Supernatural Index and in 2003 he received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction .

Ashley sees the roots of his fascination for fantasy and his extensive work as a bibliographer in his youth. His father used to tell him stories from HG Wells and others on long walks - albeit mostly without naming the author or title - and Ashley remembers having spent long hours later trying to determine the sources of these stories. One author in particular kept him busy for decades, first as a reader and then as a biographer. In 1987, Ashley published a first bio-bibliographical work on Algernon Blackwood and in 2001 the first comprehensive biography of this author, Starlight Man: The Extraordinary Life of Algernon Blackwood (in the US edition as Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life ).

Finally , we should mention Ashley's extensive contributions to the Enyclopedia of Fantasy, edited by John Clute and John Grant , and to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction , edited by Clute and Peter Nicholls , to the 3rd edition of which Ashley contributed practically all articles on magazines and journals.

As a SF fan of the first generation, publisher of the Fanzines Plinth , … And Behold , Cushi Came , Monolith , Saliromania , Xeron and Info for the BSFA , as a collector, author and detail-obsessed bibliographer, Ashley was accepted into First in 2008 Fandom Hall of Fame honored.

Ashley was a local government official until he retired. He lives in Chatham , Kent .

Awards

bibliography

Anthologies

  • SF Choice 77 (1977)
  • Souls in Metal (1977)
  • The Best of British SF 1 (1977)
  • The Best of British SF 2 (1977)
  • Weird Legacies (1977)
  • Jewels of Wonder: An Anthology of Heroic Fantasies (1981)
  • When Spirits Talk (1990)
  • The Giant Book of Myths and Legends (1995)
  • Classical Stories: Heroic Tales from Ancient Greece and Rome (1996, also expanded as The Giant Book of Heroic Adventure Stories , 1997, and as Heroic Adventure Stories )
  • Classical Whodunnits: Murder and Mystery from Ancient Greece and Rome (1996)
  • Fantasy Stories (1996, also as The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories )
  • Space Stories (1996, also as The Random House Book of Science Fiction Stories )
  • Shakespearean Whodunnits (1997)
  • Shakespearean Detectives (1998, also as More Shakespearean Whodunnits )
  • Heroic Adventure Stories: From the Golden Age of Greece and Rome (1998)
  • Phantom Perfumes and Other Shades: Memories of Ghost Stories Magazine (2000)
  • Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers (2008)
  • Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (2008)
  • The Darker Sex: Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre by Victorian Women Writers (2009)
  • Steampunk Prime (2010, also as Steampunk: Extraordinary Tales of Victorian Futurism , 2012)
  • The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women (2010)
  • Dreams and Wonders: Stories from the Dawn of Modern Fantasy (2010)
  • Vampires: Classic Tales (2011)
  • The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers (2015)
  • Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet (2018, also as Lost Mars: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet )
  • Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures (2018)
  • The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways (announced January 2019)

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

The History of the Science Fiction Magazine
  • The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 1 1926-1935 (1974)
  • The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 2 1936-1945 (1975)
  • The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 3 1946–1955 (1976)
  • The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 4 1956-1965 (1978)
The Mammoth Book of ...
  • The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels (1988)
  • The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits (1993)
    • German: Of knights, witches and other Gelichters: Historical crime stories. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 13802, 1996, ISBN 3-404-13802-3 .
  • The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (1995)
    • German: Räuber, Schurken, Lumpenpack: More historical crime stories. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 13944, 1998, ISBN 3-404-13944-5 .
  • The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales (1997)
  • The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (1997)
    • English: Sherlock Holmes and the Curse of Addleton: New Sherlock Holmes Stories. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 14916, 2003, ISBN 3-404-14916-5 .
  • The Mammoth Book of Arthurian Legends (1998)
  • The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens (1998, also called British Monarchs , revised as A Brief History of British Kings and Queens , 2002)
  • The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (1998)
    • German: Hokus, Pokus, Lumbago: The big book of humorous fantasy. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 20451, 2002, ISBN 3-404-20451-4 .
  • The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (1999, also as The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II )
  • The Mammoth Book of Men o 'War (1999)
  • The Mammoth Book of Sword and Honor (2000)
  • The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2000)
  • The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits - Volume 2 (2001, also as The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits )
  • The Mammoth Book of Fantasy (2001)
  • The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy (2001)
  • The Mammoth Book of Hearts of Oak (2001, also called The Mammoth Book of Sea Battles )
  • The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction (2002)
  • The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction (2002)
  • The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits (2002)
  • The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits (2003)
  • The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits (2004)
  • The Mammoth Book of Sorcerers' Tales (2004, also as The Mammoth Book of Dark Magic , 2013, also as The Mammoth Book of Black Magic , 2013)
  • The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures (2005, with Eric Brown)
    • English: Return to the Center of the Earth: New Jules Verne Stories. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 20548, 2006, ISBN 3-404-20548-0 .
  • The Mammoth Book of King Arthur (2005)
  • The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy: Fourth All-New Collection (2005, also as The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy )
  • The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Third New Collection (2005, also as The Mammoth Book of New Historical Whodunnits )
  • The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction (2006)
  • The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits (2006)
  • The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries (2006)
  • The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits (2007)
  • The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy (2008)
  • The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF (2009)
  • The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF (2010, also as The Mammoth Book of the End of the World )
  • The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF (2013)
Arthurian Chronicles
  • The Pendragon Chronicles (1990)
  • The Camelot Chronicles (1992)
  • The Merlin Chronicles (1995, also as The Mammoth Book of Merlin , 2009)
  • The Chronicles of the Holy Grail (1996, also called Quest for the Holy Grail )
  • The Chronicles of the Round Table (1997, also called Tales of the Round Table )
Collections of individual authors

Non-fiction

  • Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction (1977)
  • The Seven Wonders of the World (1979)
  • Fantasy Reader's Guide, Number One: The John Spencer Fantasy Publications (1979)
  • Fantasy Readers' Guide, Numer Two: The File on Ramsey Campbell (1980)
  • The Complete Index to Astounding / Analog (1981)
  • The Writings of Barrington J. Bayley (1981)
  • The Illustrated Book of Science Fiction Lists (1982)
  • Science Fiction Quiz (1983)
  • Monthly Terrors: An Index to the Weird Fantasy Magazines Published in the United States and Great Britain (1985, with Frank H. Parnell)
  • Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines (1985, with Marshall B. Tymn)
  • Algernon Blackwood: A Bio-Bibliography (1987)
  • The Work of William F. Temple: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide (1994)
  • The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird, and Horror Anthologies (1995, with William G. Contento)
  • The Life and Times of King Arthur (1996)
  • Starlight Man: The Extraordinary Life of Algernon Blackwood (2001, also as Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life )
  • The Gernsback Days: The Evolution of Modern Science Fiction from 1911–1936 (2004, with Robert AW Lowndes)
  • The Age of the Story Tellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880–1950 (2006)
  • Taking Liberties (2008)
  • A Brief History of King Arthur (2010)
  • Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not as You Know It (2011)
  • Adventures in the Strand: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Strand Magazine (2016)
  • The Astounding Illustrated History of Fantasy & Horror (2018, with Russ Thorne, Roger Luckhurst, Rosie Fletcher, Dave Golder, Matt Cardin and Michael Kerrigan)
Nestle Smarties books
  • All the Incredible Facts You Ever Need to Know (1999, 2001 split into Wacky World and Hairy Humans )
  • Incredible Monsters (2000, 2001 split into Beautiful Beasties and Deadly Dinosaurs )
The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines
  • 1 The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 (2000)
  • 2 Transformations: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970 (2005)
  • 3 Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970-1980 (2007)
  • 4 Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990 (2016)

Fiction

novel
  • The Enchantresses (1998, with Vera Chapman)
Short stories
  • The Wall (in: Space-Wise, # 4 1970 )
  • The Scream (1995, in: Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg and Martin H. Greenberg (Eds.): 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories )
  • The Witness (1995, in: Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg and Martin H. Greenberg (Eds.): 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories )
  • The Bridge of Fire (1998, in: Lawrence Schimel and Martin H. Greenberg (Eds.): Camelot Fantastic )
  • The Corruption of Perfection (2000, in: James Lowder (Ed.): The Doom of Camelot )

literature

Web links
Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Nicholls , John Clute , David Langford : Ashley, Mike. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated August 31, 2018.
  2. ↑ Andrew Hedgecock: Starlight, Jelly and Shadows: Mike Ashley ( March 10, 2018 memento in the Internet Archive ), interview in The Zone .
  3. ↑ Mike Ashley: Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life. Carroll & Graf 2002, ISBN 0786709286 , blurb .
  4. ↑ Mike Ashley in Fantastic Fiction , accessed December 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Ashley, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ashley, Michael Raymond Donald (full name); Ashley, Michael (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English bibliographer, author and editor of science fiction, fantasy and crime novels
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Southall , Middlesex