Phyllis Gotlieb

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Phyllis Gotlieb , born Phyllis Fay Bloom (born May 26, 1926 in Toronto , Ontario , † July 14, 2009 in Toronto, Ontario), was a Canadian poet and science fiction writer. Her novel, A Judgment of Dragons , won the 1982 Aurora Award for Best Novel.

Life

She was the daughter of a movie theater owner, spent much of her childhood watching the films she saw in her father's venues, and made an early decision to become a writer. She studied language and literature at the University of Toronto and graduated with a master's degree in 1950. After that she first distinguished herself as a poet and appeared in poetry readings a. a. with Leonard Cohen and Irving Layton . In order to overcome writer's block in her poetry in the 1950s, she began writing SF on the advice of her husband. The resulting short story, A Grain Of Manhood , was published in 1959.

Her novel Sunburst (1964) describes the consequences of a reactor accident, after which genetically damaged children also appear with supernatural abilities and come into conflict with society. The subject of telepathy is shaped in many of her texts, as are the opportunities and dangers of genetics . In O Master Caliban! (1976) robots attempt to recreate their late master on a dangerous jungle planet from human and animal genetic material, just as he himself had constructed creatures. In addition to novels and short stories - including the feminist fantasy novel Birthstone (2007) - she continued to write poetry, but also radio plays and plays.

She is considered the grande dame of Canadian science fiction. After the title of her first science fiction novel - one of the first examples of Canadian SF ever - the Canadian science fiction literary award Sunburst was later named during her lifetime .

Eight of her science fiction novels are set in the fictional universe of the Galactic Federation (GalFed).

She lived in Toronto and was married to computer science professor Calvin Gotlieb . At the age of 83, she died in 2009 of a ruptured appendix .

bibliography

GalFed: Sven Dahlgren series
  • O Master Caliban! (1976)
    • English: Oh, Master Caliban . Translated by Hilde Linnert. Heyne SF&F # 3864, 1982, ISBN 3-453-30750-X .
  • Heart of Red Iron (1989)
GalFed: Ungrukh Chronicles / Starcats trilogy
  • A Judgment of Dragons (1980)
  • Emperor, Swords, Pentacles (1982)
  • The Kingdom of the Cats (1985)
GalFed: Flesh and Gold Trilogy
  • Flesh and Gold (1998)
  • Violent Stars (1999)
  • MindWorlds (2002)
Single novels
  • Sunburst (1964)
    • English: The Scourge of Light. A classic science fiction novel . Translated by Walter Brumm. Heyne SF&F # 3794, 1981, ISBN 3-453-30696-1 .
  • Why Should I Have All the Grief (1969)
  • Birthstones (2007)
Short story collections
  • Son of the Morning and Other Stories (1983)
  • Blue Apes (1995)
Short stories
  • A Grain of Manhood (1959)
  • Phantom Foot (1959)
  • No End of Time (1960)
  • A Bone to Pick (1960)
  • Gingerbread Boy (1961)
  • Valedictory (1964)
  • Planetoid Idiot (1967)
  • Monkey Wrench (1968, also as Rogue's Gambit )
  • The Dirty Old Men of Maxsec (1969)
  • The Military Hospital (1971)
  • Mother Lode (1973)
  • Sunday's Child (1977)
  • Blue Apes (1981)
  • Baptism Aleph (1981)
  • The Newest Profession (1982)
  • Body English (1986)
  • The Other Eye (1990)
  • We Can't Go On Meeting Like This (1992)
  • Among You (1993)
  • End City (1997)
  • Waiting Till the Stars Scream (1998, with Jean-Louis Trudel)
Poems
  • Who Knows One (1961)
  • Within the Zodiac (1964)
  • Ordinary, Moving (1969)
  • Doctor Umlaut's Earthly Kingdom (1974)
  • The Works: Collected poems (1978)
  • Red Blood Black Ink White Paper: New and Selected Poems 1961–2001 (2002)
as editor

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Gotlieb, Phyllis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bloom, Phyllis Fay (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 2009
Place of death Toronto