Richard Bowes

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Richard Dirrane Bowes (born January 8, 1944 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy .

Life

Bowes grew up in South Boston and Dorchester and studied at Hofstra College on Long Island . In the 1970s and 1980s he was a game writer and developed board games for The National Lampoon , Dow Jones and Metropolitan Life .

Bowes' first novel Warchild appeared in 1986, followed by the sequel Goblin Market in 1988 . Both novels are set in an alternative world in New York . Transformations of Bowes' native New York also form the backdrop to several other stories by Bowes, such as the novel Feral Cell (1987), where playmaker Robert Leal dies of cancer and has fleeting visions of another world in which he does not die, but lives and is worshiped as God.

In addition to the novels, Bowes also wrote numerous short stories and novels. He summarized the series around Kevin Grierson into the fix-up novel Minions of the Moon (1999), which won the Lambda Literary Award in 2000. The story Streetcar Dreams contained therein had already won the World Fantasy Award in 1998 . Like Prince Harry in Shakespeare's Falstaff plays - from which the title comes - Kevin Grierson also has to grow up. Like Bowes, Kevin comes to New York from the Boston suburbs - again an alternative New York enriched with urban fantasy elements - and here has to deal with its idiosyncratic shadow and its sexual ambivalences.

Another short story series is Files of the Time Rangers , a mixture of time travel , alternative world and political satire , in which the Greek gods are doing some mischief in a New York of the 20th century and are kept in check by the Time Rangers , who in turn are Servant of the god Apollo . This series also resulted in a fix-up, the 2005 novel From the Files of the Time Rangers .

The narratives of the Dust Devil short story series ultimately formed the basis for the novel Dust Devil on a Quiet Street (2013). One of the stories, namely There's a Hole in the City (2005, German as Ein Loch in der Stadt ), won the 2006 International Horror Guild Award and the storySouth Million Writers Award.

Awards

bibliography

Series

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

Warchild (series of novels)

  • Warchild (1986)
  • Goblin Market (1988)

Kevin Grierson (short story series)

  • On Death and the Deuce (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1992 )
  • A Beggar at the Bridge (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1993 )
  • The Judges of the Secret Court (in: Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, July 1993 )
  • I Died, Sir, in Flame, Sir (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1994 )
  • The Shadow and the Gunman (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1994 )
  • At Darlington’s (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1995 )
  • Fountains in Summer (1995, in: Jennifer Hershey, Tom Dupree and Janna Silverstein (Eds.): Full Spectrum 5 )
  • Drink and the Devil (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1997 )
  • Streetcar Dreams (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1997 )
  • So Many Miles to the Heart of a Child (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1998 )
  • Minions of the Moon (1999, novel)
  • Grierson at the Pain Clinic (2012, in: Icarus # 15, Winter 2012-2013 )

Files of the Time Rangers (short story series)

  • In the House of the Man in the Moon (1997, in: Stephen Pagel and Nicola Griffith (Eds.): Bending the Landscape: Fantasy )
  • Diana in the Spring (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1998 )
  • From the Files of the Time Rangers (in: Sci Fiction, September 6, 2000 )
  • Days Red and Green (in: Sci Fiction, November 14, 2001 )
  • The Ferryman's Wife (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 )
  • The Quicksilver Kid (in: Sci Fiction, January 17, 2001 )
  • Straight to My Lover's Heart (in: Black Gate, Summer 2001 )
  • Godfather Death (in: Sci Fiction, October 23, 2002 )
  • The Mask of the Rex (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2002 )
  • From the Files of the Time Rangers (2005, novel)

Mr. Brain (series of short stories, starring Ezra Pines)

  • Mr. Brain and the Island of Lost Socks (in: Electric Velocipede, Issue # 2, Spring 2002 )
  • Mr. Brain and the Voting Booth from Outer Space (2004, in: Eric M. Heideman (Ed.): Tales of the Unanticipated # 25 )

Dust Devil (short story series)

  • Circle Dance (in: Postscripts, Spring 2005 )
  • There's a Hole in the City (in: Sci Fiction, June 15, 2005 )
  • Dust Devil on a Quiet Street (2006, in: Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (Eds.): Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy )
  • King of the Big Night Hours (2007, in: Subterranean, Issue # 7 ; also: The King of the Big Night Hours , 2017)
  • Aka St. Mark's Place (2008, in: Ellen Datlow (Ed.): The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices )
  • I Like Writing but Hate Being a Writer (in: Clarkesworld Magazine, # 17 February 2008 )
  • I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2009 )
  • The Office of Doom (2009, in: Ellen Datlow (Ed.): Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories )
  • Knickerbocker Holiday (2010, in: Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas (Eds.): Haunted Legends )
  • The Margay's Children (2010, in: Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (Eds.): The Beastly Bride and Other Tales of the Animal People )
  • Pining to Be Human (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July-August 2010 )
  • Venues (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November-December 2010 )
  • Waiting for the Phone to Ring (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March-April 2010 )
  • Hoffmann, Godzilla and Me (in: Icarus # 10, Fall 2011 )
  • Dust Devil on a Quiet Street (2013, novel)

Single novel

  • Feral Cell (1987)

Collections

  • Transfigured Night and Other Stories (2001)
  • Streetcar Dreams and Other Midnight Fancies (2006)
  • The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others (2013)
  • If Angels Fight (2013)

Short stories

1993
  • Someday I Shall Rise and Go (in: Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, January 1993 )
1995
  • Transfigured Night (in: Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, April 1995 )
1999
  • A Huntsman Passing By (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999 )
2001
  • My Life in Speculative Fiction (2001)
2006
  • City of Chimeras (in: Helix, Summer 2006 )
  • Jacket Jackson (in: Electric Velocipede, Issue # 10, Spring 2006 ; with Mark Rich)
2007
  • A Tale for the Short Days (2007, in: Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (Eds.): The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales )
  • The Wand's Boy (2007, in: Steve Berman (Ed.): So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction )
2008
  • If Angels Fight (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2008 )
  • The Cinnamon Cavalier (in: Fantasy Magazine, April 2008 )
2009
  • The Bear Dresser's Secret (in: Electric Velocipede, Issue # 17/18, Spring 2009 )
2011
  • A Song to the Moon (2011, in: Ekaterina Sedia (Ed.): Bewere the Night )
  • Mortal Bait (2011, in: Ellen Datlow (Ed.): Supernatural Noir )
  • On the Slide (2011, in: Ellen Datlow (Ed.): Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy )
  • Sir Morgravain Speaks of Night Dragons and Other Things (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July-August 2011 )
  • The Progress of Solstice and Chance (in: Realms of Fantasy, August 2011 )
  • Blood Yesterday, Blood Tomorrow (2011, in: Ellen Datlow (Ed.): Blood and Other Cravings )
2012
  • A Member of the Wedding of Heaven and Hell (in: Apex Magazine, March 2012 )
  • The Queen and the Cambion (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March-April 2012 )
  • Reality Girl (2012, in: Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow (Eds.): After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia )
  • Savage Design (2012, in: Ekaterina Sedia (Ed.): Bloody Fabulous )
  • Seven Smiles and Seven Frowns (in: Lightspeed, November 2012 )
2013
  • The Lady of Wands (2013, in: Richard Bowes: The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others )
  • The Witch's House (2013, in: Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Eds.): Unnatural Worlds )
  • Seven Days of Poe (2013, in: Steve Berman (Ed.): Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe )
  • His Only Nose (2013, in: Richard Bowes: If Angels Fight )
  • Tears of Laughter, Tears of Grief (2013, in: Richard Bowes: If Angels Fight )
  • Whips and Wands (2013, in: Richard Bowes: If Angels Fight )
  • Tales That Fairies Tell (2013, in: Paula Guran (Ed.): Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales )
2014
  • Stories I Tell to Friends (2014, in: The Revelator, Vol. 138, No. 1 )
  • Sleep Walking Now and Then (in: Tor.com, July 9, 2014 )
2015
  • Anyone with a Care for Their Image (in: Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2015 )
  • Time Is a Twisting Snake (in: Farrago's Wainscot, January 2015 )
  • Doll Court (2015, in: Ellen Datlow (Ed.): The Doll Collection )
  • Oh, How the Ghost of You Clings (2015, in: Mark Teppo (Ed.): Thirteen: Stories of Transformation )
  • Fordham Court (in: Interfictions Online, June 2015 )
  • Rascal Saturday (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October 2015 )
  • The Duchess and the Ghost (in: Fantasy Magazine, December 2015 )
2016
  • Lunching with the Sphinxes (in: Grendelsong, Issue 2, April 2016 )
2017
  • The Season of the Raptors (2017, in: Ellen Datlow (Ed.): Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales )
  • Dirty Old Town (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May-June 2017 )
  • Some Kind of Wonderland (2017, in: Ellen Datlow (Ed.): Mad Hatters and March Hares )
  • The Name Unspoken (2017, in: Gordon Van Gelder (Ed.): Welcome to Dystopia )
2019
  • Icarus Rising (2019, in: Ellen Datlow (Ed.): Echoes )

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeffrey Ford: An Interview with Richard Bowes. In: Infinity Plus , 2002, accessed January 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ Let vs be Dianaes Forresters, Gentlemen of the Shade, Minions of the Moone […] William Shakespeare: Henry IV., Part 1 . 1st act. Quoted after the first folio text.
  3. ↑ The story south 2006 Million Writers Award , accessed on January 12 of 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Bowes, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bowes, Richard Dirrane (full name); Bowes, Rick (alternative spelling); Bowes, Rick Dirrane (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer of science fiction and fantasy
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts