Robert Shea

Robert Joseph "Bob" Shea (born February 14, 1933 in New York City , † March 10, 1994 in Oak Lawn , Illinois ) was an American writer .

Life

Shea was born in New York in 1933, the son of a doctor. As a schoolboy and student, he published magazines and comics . He studied English at Manhattan College and literary history at Rutgers University in New Jersey . He then worked as a freelance writer, wrote short stories and was temporarily editor of several magazines, including Playboy , where he met Robert Anton Wilson . Both became through the jointly written novel trilogy Illuminatus! known by Shea himself as " anarchist science fiction" designated.

He then continued his writing career with historical novels .

In 1994 he died of colon cancer . Shea was married to author Patricia Monaghan for the second time. His son Michael Erik "Mike" Shea maintains a website on which his father's works are gradually published under a Creative Commons license.

bibliography

Illuminatus! (with Robert Anton Wilson)

• The Eye in the Pyramid (1975)
  • English: The eye in the pyramid. Sphinx-Verlag, Basel 1977, ISBN 3-85914-123-3 . Also as: rororo # 4577, 1980, ISBN 3-499-14577-4 .
• The Golden Apple (1975)
  • German: The golden apple. Sphinx-Verlag, Basel 1978, ISBN 3-85914-124-2 . Also as: rororo # 4696, 1981, ISBN 3-499-14696-7 .
• Leviathan (1975)
  • German: Leviathan. Sphinx-Verlag, Basel 1978, ISBN 3-85914-125-2 . Also as: rororo # 4772, 1981, ISBN 3-499-14772-6 .
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975, anthology)
  • German: Illuminatus! Hugendubel, Kreuzlingen & Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7205-2320-9 . Also as: Illuminatus! : the trilogy. Rororo # 25654, 2011, ISBN 978-3-499-25654-7 .

Shike

• Time of the Dragons (1981)
  • German: time of dragons. Goldmann, 1983, ISBN 3-442-30016-9 .
• Last of the Zinja (1981)
  • German: The last Zinja. Goldmann, 1983, ISBN 3-442-30016-9 .
• Shike (1981, anthology)
  • German: Time of the Dragons / The Last Zinja. Goldmann Taschenbuch # 8981, 1987, ISBN 3-442-08981-6 .

Saracen

• Land of the Infidel (1989)
  • English: Der Saracene I. The infidels . Goldmann Taschenbuch # 41503, 1993, ISBN 3-442-41503-9 .
• Land of the Infidel (1989)
  • English: The Saracen II. The holy war . Goldmann Taschenbuch # 41552, 1993, ISBN 3-442-41552-7 .
• The Holy War (1989)

Single novels

• All things are lights , 1986
  • German: The Cross and the Lute. Goldmann, 1986, ISBN 3-442-30068-1 . Also in two parts as:
    • Part 1: Mont Ségur. Goldmann Taschenbuch # 9176, 1988, ISBN 3-442-09176-4 .
    • Part 2: Beyond the Sea. Goldmann, 1988, ISBN 3-442-09177-2 .
• From No Man's Land to Plaza De Lago , 1987
• Shaman (1991)
  • German: The white shaman. Translated by WM Riegel. Goldmann, 1992. ISBN 3-442-42423-2 .
• Lady Yang (1996)
  • English: The Emperor's Concubine. Goldmann Taschenbuch # 41591, 1997, ISBN 3-442-41591-8 .

Short stories

• The Helpful Robots (1957)
• Resurrection (1957)
• Mutineer (1959)
• Requiem for a Dryad (1959)
• Star Performer (1960)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 367.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 881.
• John Clute : Shea, Robert. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Shea in the catalog of the German National Library
• Robert Shea in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Robert Shea in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Works by Shea, Robert in Project Gutenberg ( currently not usually available for users from Germany )
• Works by and about Robert Shea at Open Library
• Website of Robert J. Shea , looked after by his son Mike Shea
• Robert Shea in Fantastic Fiction (English)
• Illuminatus! as download ( Memento from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.9 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Worlds Without Government. In: New Libertarian. 5/6, 1980, pp. 18–20 ( PDF ( Memento of August 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))