Richard A. Lupoff

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Richard “Dick” Allen Lupoff (born February 21, 1935 in New York ) is an American writer, best known as a writer of science fiction and crime novels .

Life

Lupoff is the son of Sol J. Lupoff and Sylvia Lupoff, née Feldman. He studied at the University of Miami , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1956 . From 1956 to 1958 he served in the Adjutant General's Corps in the US Army . In 1958 he married Patricia "Pat" Loring, with whom he has three children. From 1958 to 1963 he worked as a technical writer and programmer for Sperry Rand , after which he wrote scripts and produced films for IBM in New York and Poughkeepsie until 1970 . In parallel, he worked for Canaveral Press , where he edited several volumes of the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs . For Canaveral Press he also wrote a biography of Burroughs ( Master of Adventure , 1965), in 1976 another work was published by Mirage Press ( Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Martian Vision ). After 1970 he worked as a freelance writer and for the magazines Crawdaddy (1970–1971), Changes (1971/1972), Organ (1972) and Algol (1963–1979). From 1979 to 1981 he wrote science fiction reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle . After 1985 he worked for Canyon Press in California.

Together with his wife Pat Lupoff, he brought out the fanzine Xero from 1960 to 1963 . The magazine was presented at Worldcon 1960 in Pittsburgh , where Dick and Pat Lupoff appeared in an early cosplay form as Captain and Mary Marvel . A number of well-known authors were among the contributors, including Dan Adkins, Otto Binder , James Blish , Anthony Boucher , Algis Budrys , Lin Carter , Avram Davidson , L. Sprague de Camp , Roger Ebert , Harlan Ellison , Edward Gorman, Ron Haydock, Roy Krenkel, Frederik Pohl , Larry T. Shaw , Robert Shea , Steve Stiles, Wilson Tucker , Donald E. Westlake , Ted White , Paul Williams and Walt Willis. In 1963, Xero received the Hugo Award for best fanzine. A selection of the best contributions appeared in 2004. Xero also included All in Color for a Dime , a series of contributions about older comics. In 1970 a selection was published in a collective edition.

The Burroughs biography was Lupoff's first book. In 1967 he published his first fiction work, One Million Centuries , an SF novel set in the distant future. Over the following decades, some two dozen books and about 50 short stories, including the short story published 12:01 PM (1973), the 1990 basis for a short film 12:01 PM by Jonathan Heap and for the TV film 12:01 by Jack Sholder with Jonathan Silverman and Helen Slater in the lead roles (US 1993). It is about an employee who is trapped in a time warp. The similarities to Harold Ramis ' comedy film And Groundhog Day caused Lupoff and Heap to consider legal action:

"The story was also adapted - actually plagiarized - into a major theatrical film in 1993. Jonathan Heap and I were outraged and tried very hard to go after the rascals who had robbed us, but alas, the Hollywood establishment closed ranks. We were no Art Buchwald . After half a year of lawyers' conferences and emotional stress, we agreed to put the matter behind us and get on with our lives. "

“The story was stolen and made into a full-length film. Jonathan Heap and I were beside ourselves and wanted to take action against the crooks who had robbed us. But the Hollywood establishment closed the ranks. We weren't Art Buchwald . After half a year of legal conferences and great emotional stress, we decided to leave the matter behind and get on with our lives. "

In the secondary literature, the fluency with which Lupoff switches between genres and adopts the style of other authors is repeatedly emphasized. His inclination towards pastiche and parody is unmistakable . Under the pseudonym Ova Hamlet, he wrote a number of parodies of the style of well-known SF authors, which were collected as The Ova Hamlet Papers in 1979.

One has therefore seen in him a pleasure in the incongruent and a tendency to hide behind masks. Lupoff himself denies this, it is not the case that he is wearing a mask, rather he puts on make-up according to the occasion. In the first place, what the story to be told requires, style and genre have to follow. And as far as adapting to the conventions of a genre in particular, he remembers a period in the early 1980s when publishers suddenly didn't want to publish any of his SF books because the market had changed. The consequence and experience from this for him was "never again to put all of his eggs in the SF basket."

bibliography

Series

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

Space War Blues (short stories)
  • With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama (1972)
  • After the Dreamtime (1974)
  • Sail the Tide of Mourning (1975)
  • The Bentfin Boomer Girl Comes Thru (1977)
  • Our Own Little Mardi Gras (1977)
  • Space War Blues (novel, 1978)
    • German: Space War Blues. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31055, 1983, ISBN 3-548-31055-9 .
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (as Addison E. Steele)
  • 1 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1978)
  • 2 That Man on Beta (1979)
  • Starrett (short stories)
  • Lux Was Dead Right (1981)
  • Transtemporal Creatures Unlimited (1981)
  • Joe Nieman's Knees (1982)
Sun's End
  • 1 Sun's End (1984)
  • 2 Galaxy's End (1988)
Twin planets
  • 1 Circumpolar! (1984)
    • German: Zirkumpolar. Translated by Michael Windgassen. Ullstein Adventure # 21073, 1988, ISBN 3-548-21073-2 .
  • 2 countersolar! (1987)
Hobart Lindsey / Marvia Plum
  • 1 The Comic Book Killer (1988)
  • 2 The Classic Car Killer (1992)
  • 3 the Bessie Blue Killer (1994)
  • 4 The Sepia Siren Killer (1994)
  • 5 The Cover Girl Killer (1995)
  • 6 The Silver Chariot Killer (1996)
  • 7 The Radio Red Killer (1997)
  • 8 The Emerald Cat Killer (2010)
  • One Murder at a Time: The Casebook of Lindsey & Plum (Collection, 2001)
Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon
  • 1 The Black Tower (1988)
  • 6 The Final Battle (1990)
Daniel M. Pinkwater's Melvinge of the Megaverse
  • 3 Night of the Living 'Gator! (1992)

Novels

  • One Million Centuries (1967)
  • Sacred Locomotive Flies (1971)
  • Into the Aether (1974)
    • German: advance into the ether. Ullstein SF&F # 31101, 1985.
  • Lisa Kane (1976)
  • The Triune Man (1976)
    • German: Der Dreifaltigkeitsmann. Moewig (Moewig Science Fiction # 3641), 1984, ISBN 3-8118-3641-2 .
  • The Crack in the Sky (1976, also as Fool's Hill , 1978)
  • Sandworld (1976)
  • Sword of the Demon (1977)
  • Lovecraft's Book (1985, also as Marblehead: A Novel of HP Lovecraft , 2006)
  • The Forever City (1988)

Collections

  • The Ova Hamlet Papers (1979)
  • Hyperprism / The Digital Wristwatch of Philip K. Dick (1993)
  • Before ... 12:01 ... and After (1996)
  • Claremont Tales (2 vols., 2001/2002, collection)
  • The Best of Xero (2004, with Pat Lupoff)
  • Terror (2005)
  • Deep Space (2009)
  • Visions (2009)
  • The Compleat Ova Hamlet (2009)
  • Dreams (2011)
  • One Murder at a Time: A Casebook: The Lindsey & Plum Detective Series, Book Nine (2013)
  • Dreamer's Dozen (2015)
  • The Doom That Came to Dunwich (2017)

Short stories

  • Mr. Greene and the Monster (1952)
  • BOOM! (1963)
  • Incident in the 14th Street BMT (1968)
  • Isle of Man Swings SF (1968)
  • The Case of the Doctor Who Had No Business, or, The Adventure of the Second Anonymous Narrator (1969)
  • Stream of Consciousness (1969)
  • Man Swings SF (1969)
  • The Wizard of Atala (1970)
  • Music in the Air (1970)
  • Time Dog (1970)
  • Battered Like a Brass Bippy (1970, also as Ova Hamlet)
  • War of the Doom Zombies (1971, also as Ova Hamlet)
  • Mektopia! (1971)
  • The Heyworth Fragment (1972)
  • The Horror South of Red Hook (1972, also as Ova Hamlet)
  • Agony and Remorse on Rhesus IX (1972, also as by Ova Hamlet)
    • German: Pain and Remorse on Rhesus IX. In: Uwe Anton (Ed.): Welcome to Reality: The Nightmares of Philip K. Dick. Heyne SF&F # 4713, 1990, ISBN 3-453-04298-0 .
  • The Partridge Project (1973)
  • 12:01 PM (1973)
  • Grebzlam's Game (1974, also as Ova Hamlet)
  • A Freeway for Draculas (1974)
  • Whatever Happened to Nick Neptune? (1974)
  • Musspelsheim (1974)
  • The Wedding of Ova Hamlet (1975, also as Addison Steele, II)
  • Young Nurse Nebuchadnezzar (1975, also as Ova Hamlet)
  • Saltzman's Madness (1975)
  • With the Evening News (1975)
    • German: On the evening news. In: Manfred Kluge (ed.): The gift of the fakir. Heyne SF&F # 3486, 1976, ISBN 3-453-30356-3 .
  • God of the Naked Unicorn (1976, also as Ova Hamlet)
  • The Return of Skull-Face (1977, with Robert E. Howard)
  • The Child's Story (1977)
  • The Whisperers (1977)
  • Discovery of the Ghooric Zone - March 15, 2337 (1977)
    • German: The discovery of the Ghoorian zone - March 15, 2337. In: Roy Torgeson (Ed.): The monster from the swamp. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6729), 1982, ISBN 3-8118-6729-6 .
  • Taverel Manor (1978, with Robert E. Howard)
  • Venus — Ah, Venus! (1978)
  • The Devil's Hop Yard (1978)
    • German: The Devil's Hop Field. In: Roy Torgeson (ed.): Nick Adams' last rise. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6718), 1981, ISBN 3-8118-6718-0 .
  • Two Sort-of Adventures (1978, also as Ova Hamlet)
  • Nebogipfel at the End of Time (1978)
  • The Nosepickers of Dawr (1981, also as Ova Hamlet)
  • Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley (1982)
  • Mort in Bed (1982)
  • Stroka Prospect (1982, also as Stomping Down Stroka Prospect )
  • Blinky Henderson Again (1983)
  • The Digital Wristwatch of Philip K. Dick (1985)
    • English: The digital wristwatch of Philip K. Dick. In: Uwe Anton (Ed.): Welcome to Reality: The Nightmares of Philip K. Dick. Heyne SF&F # 4713, 1990, ISBN 3-453-04298-0 .
  • Three Centaur Tales (1985)
  • Etchings of Her Memories (1987)
  • Hyperprism 21.5 (1988)
  • Mr. Tindle (1989, also as Mr. Tindle Departs )
    • German: Mr. Tindle. In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): The noise conspiracy. Heyne SF&F # 4673, 1990, ISBN 3-453-03937-8 .
  • Snow Ghosts (1989)
  • Triptych (1990)
  • The Final Battle (Preview) (1990)
  • At Vega's Taqueria (1990)
  • The House on Rue Chartres (1990)
  • The Adventures of Professor Thintwhistle and His Incredible Aether Flyer (1991)
  • Mr. Tindle Returns (1991)
  • You Don't Know Me, Charlie (1993)
  • Death in the Ditch (1995)
  • Easy Living (1995)
  • The Tootsie Roll Factor (1995)
  • Black Mist (1995)
  • The Turret (1995)
  • A Funny Thing ... (1996)
  • Adventure of the Boulevard Assassin (1996)
  • Jubilee (1996)
  • Lights! Camera! Shub-niggurath! (1996)
  • The Doom That Came to Dunwich (1996)
  • The Woodstock West Killer (1996)
  • Dogwalker (1996)
  • Black Boy in a Box (1996)
  • Star Lotus (1996)
  • That Little Toy is Lost (1996)
  • The River of Fog (1997)
  • The Message (1997)
  • The Forms of Things Unknown (1997)
  • The River of Fog (Part 17 of 17) (1997)
  • Chinese Gunboats (1997)
  • Lindsey Chases a Ghost (1998)
  • 12/31/99 (1999)
  • News from New Providence (1999)
  • I Don't Tell Lies (2000)
  • The Second Drug (2000)
  • Simeon Dimsby's Workshop (2001)
  • Yesterday Calling: The New Retro Radio Players Present (2001)
  • The Monster and Mr. Greene (2001)
  • Golden Glory (2001)
  • Old Folks at Home (2001)
  • Green Ice (2002)
  • The Crimson Wizard (2003)
  • The American Monarchy (2003)
  • The Adventure of the Voorish Sign (2003)
  • The Peltonville Horror (2004)
  • Villaggio Sogno (2004)
  • The Jewels of Lemuria (2004, also as The Crimson Wizard and the Jewels of Lemuria , 2005)
  • Brackish Waters (2005)
  • Chase and the Missing Man (2005)
  • Dingbats (2005)
  • The Secret of the Sahara (2005)
  • Streamliner (2005)
  • The Golden Saint Meets the Scorpion Queen (2005)
  • Treasure of the Red Robe Men (2005)
  • Fourth Avenue Interlude (2006, with Edgar Allan Poe)
  • Dreems.biz (2006)
  • Petroglyphs (2007)
  • Wyshes.com (2007)
  • Ankareh Minu (2009)
  • Hebrews Have No Horns (2009)
  • Patterns (2009)
  • Steps Leading Downward (2009)
  • Tangaroa's Yarn (2009)
  • There Are Kings (2009)
  • Phannie (2009)
  • Cairo, Good-bye (2010)
  • Nothing Personal (2010)
  • At the Esquire (2011)
  • Heaven.god. (2011)
  • Report of the Admissions Committee (2011)
  • Sergeant Ghost (2011)
  • Tee Shirts (2011)
  • The Law (2011)
  • 12:02 PM (2011)
  • 12:03 PM (2011)
  • Splash (2012, with Don Webb, Scott A. Cupp, Michael Kurland, Michael Mallory, Paul Di Filippo and James Patrick Kelly)
  • April Dawn (2012)
  • Draft Material Deleted from The Emerald Cat Killer (2013)
  • Scorpion Men of Venus (2013)
  • The Salamanca Encounter (2015)
  • Dead of Winter (2015)
  • Greetings from Comrade Kim (2015)
  • Happy birthday, birthday girl! (2015)
  • Night Lands Dream (2015)
  • Sisoh Promatem (2015)
  • The Green Fairy (2015)
  • Uncle Elmer (2015)

Anthologies

  • What if? Anthologies (3 vols., 1980-2013)
  • The Investigations of Avram Davidson (1999, with Grania Davis)
  • The Book of Time (2011, with HG Wells)

Non-fiction

  • The Reader's Guide to Barsoom and Amtor (1963, with Dave Van Arnam and Larry Ivie)
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure (1965, also as Master Of Adventure: The Worlds Of Edgar Rice Burroughs , 2005)
  • All in Color for a Dime (1970, with Don Thompson)
  • The Comic-Book Book (1973, with Don Thompson)
  • Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Martian Vision (1976)
  • Writer at Large (1998)
  • The Great American Paperback (2001)
  • Writer: Volume 3 (2016)
  • Where Memory Hides: A Writer's Life (2016)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard A. Lupoff: SF Recollections. , Timebinders, January 1995, accessed May 12, 2018.
  2. "I've always thought of myself as a story-teller rather than as a science fiction writer, or a mystery writer, or a mainstream writer. Those category and subcategory designations are useful. I'm not opposed to taxonomy. But I think that existence does indeed precede essence.
    What I do then, is approach each story as an entity unto itself, and try to write it as best I can. If that calls for a formal, stylized approach, then that's what I use. If a story is best told in a naturalistic, informal manner, I'll do that. Similarly, if a given notion or feeling or image seems best expressed as a supernatural horror story or a humorous fantasy, I'll write it that way.
    Some critics have suggested that I'm forever hiding behind masks, a great variety of masks, and they would like to see the “real” Dick Lupoff who's lurking behind those artificial personas. But in fact I think it's more a matter of face-paint than of masks. The colors and patterns of the paint may change but the face is always the same. "Nick Gevers: Behind the Face-paint: An Interview with Richard A Lupoff . Infinity Plus, April 21, 2001, accessed May 12, 2018.
  3. ^ "I will never again put all my eggs in the science fiction basket." Don D'Ammassa: Lupoff, Richard A (llen) . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , p. 509.