Patricia Anthony

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Patricia Anthony (born March 29, 1947 in San Antonio , Texas, † August 2, 2013 ) was an American writer of science fiction and historical novels.

Life

In the 1970s Patricia Anthony lived and toured Portugal and Brazil with her family . She worked at universities in these countries. In 1978 she divorced and moved to Dallas . Here she worked for fourteen years as a journalist for The Dallas Morning News and occasionally taught creative writing at Southern Methodist University .

She published her first short story in 1987 in the US magazine Aboriginal . As a science fiction author, she became known for the novel Cold Allies , for which she received the Locus Award for the best debut novel in 1994 , and which was published in 1995 in German translation with the title Cold Allies , which also won the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize was nominated. This was followed by six more novels and a collection of short stories in 1997. Her novel Happy Policeman , published in 1995, was in the final round for the Arthur C. Clarke Award . Characteristic of Patricia Anthony's science fiction literature are the extraterrestrial beings or aliens who are part of human civilization and from whose perspective Anthony tells of social and political entanglements.

In 2002, James Cameron acquired the film rights to Patricia Anthony's 1993 novel Brother Termite . The film was not produced, however scenes based on the novel were included in the 2012 special edition (Extended Collector's Edition) of the science fiction film Avatar .

bibliography

Novels
  • Brother Termite (1993)
    • German: Brother Termite. Translated by Ingrid Herrmann. Heyne SF & F # 5353, 1995, ISBN 3-453-09427-1 .
  • Cold Aliens (1993)
    • German: Cold allies. Translated by Rosemarie Hundertmarck. Heyne SF & F # 5352, 1995, ISBN 3-453-09426-3 .
  • Cold Allies (1993)
    • German: Cold allies. Translated by Rosemarie Hundertmarck. Heyne SF & F # 5352, 1995, ISBN 3-453-09426-3 .
  • Conscience of the Beagle (1993)
  • Happy Policeman (1994)
  • Cradle of Splendor (1996)
  • God's Fires (1997)
    • German: God's fire. Translated by Jakob Leutner. Heyne SF & F # 6331, 1999, ISBN 3-453-16169-6 .
  • Flanders (1998)
  • The Sighting (2015)
Collections
  • Eating Memories (1997)
Short stories
  • Blood Brothers (in: Aboriginal SF, February-March 1987 )
  • What Brothers Are For (in: Aboriginal Science Fiction, November-December 1987 )
  • Anomaly (in: Aboriginal Science Fiction, November-December 1988 )
  • Good Neighbor (in: Aboriginal Science Fiction, September-October 1988 )
  • Sweet Tooth at Io (in: Aboriginal Science Fiction, May-June 1988 )
  • White Boy (in: The Mage # 9, Winter 1988 )
  • Belief Systems (in: Aboriginal Science Fiction, September-October 1989 )
  • Bluebonnets (in: Aboriginal Science Fiction, July-August 1989 )
  • Eating Memories (in: Aboriginal Science Fiction, May-June 1989 )
  • The Name of the Demon (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1989 )
  • Coyote on Mars (in: Aboriginal Science Fiction, May-June 1990 )
  • For No Reason (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1990 )
    • German: For no particular reason. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazin 40th episode. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4957, 1992, ISBN 3-453-06199-3 .
  • Lunch with Daddy (in: Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue Eight: Summer 1990 )
  • The Deer Lake Sightings (in: Weird Tales, Summer 1990 )
  • The Murcheson Boy (in: Weird Tales, Fall 1990 )
  • The Dark at the Corner of the Eye (1991, in: Lou Aronica, Amy Stout and Betsy Mitchell (Eds.): Full Spectrum 3 )
  • The Holes Where Children Lie (in: Aboriginal Science Fiction, January-February 1991 )
  • Blue Woofers (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1992 )
  • Dear Froggy (1992, in: Aboriginal Science Fiction, Spring 1993 )
  • The Secret Language of Old White Ladies (in: Aboriginal Science Fiction, Fall 1992 )
  • The Shoot (in: Aboriginal Science Fiction, Summer 1992 )
  • Born to Be Wild (in: Aboriginal Science Fiction, Summer 1993 )
  • Gingerbread Man (in: Aboriginal Science Fiction, Fall 1993 )
  • Guardian of Fireflies (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1993 )
  • The Last Flight from Llano (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1993 )
  • Alone Again in Dweebland (1997, in: Patricia Anthony: Eating Memories )
  • Flanders (in: infinity plus, November 1997 )
  • Scavenger Hunt (1997, in: Patricia Anthony: Eating Memories )
  • Two-Bag Goddess (1997, in: Patricia Anthony: Eating Memories )
  • Young Wives (1997, in: Patricia Anthony: Eating Memories )
  • Mercy's Children (in: Albedo One, # 20, 1999 )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LocusMag
  2. ^ A Conversation With Patricia Anthony , The SF Site (1999)
  3. ^ Anthony, Patricia, Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
  4. ↑ Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Patricia Anthony , in: Voices of Vision. Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Speak , Bison Books 2005, ISBN 978-0-8032-6239-3 , pp. 65f.
  5. ↑ Avatar Special Edition to Feature Brother Termite Test Footage , IMDb
  6. ↑ 'Avatar' Special Edition DVD to Include Test Footage from James Cameron's Aborted Film 'Brother Termite'; Plus, 68 Minutes of Deleted Scenes , IMDb
personal data
SURNAME Anthony, Patricia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anthony, Patricia Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer of science fiction and historical novels
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH San Antonio , Texas
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 2013