Simon Hawke

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Simon Hawke (born Nicholas Valentin Yermakov on September 30, 1951 in New York City ) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Until the mid-1980s he published under his maiden name Nicholas Yermakov , then under the pseudonym Simon Hawke, which is now his real name.

Life

Hawke is the son of the pathologist Valentin M. Yermakov and Helga E. Yermakov, née Hartewelt. After attending the private Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne , Pennsylvania , he studied at the American University in Washington, DC and at Hofstra University in Hempstead , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1974 . After that he worked in various professions. In 1994 he received his Masters in English and Communication Studies from Western New Mexico University . From 1995 to 1998 he was a lecturer in creative writing at Pima Community College in Tucson , then at Elon College in Elon , North Carolina (1998) and from 1998 at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and at Guilford Technical Community College in Greensboro , North Carolina.

In 1992 he was named Colorado Writer of the Year .

Hawkes lives in Greensboro and is married.

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1978 Hawke published a first science fiction story The Surrogate Mouth (German as The Surrogate ) in the SF magazine Galaxy , which was expanded to the novel in 1981 under the title Journey from Flesh (German as The Symbiote ), which was about one Alien race, persecuted to extinction, goes reptile-like creatures whose bite imparts a kind of fortune-telling ability. The Boomerang trilogy is also about an endangered species, but here it is the people who want to use the shades of the planet Boomerang for their own purposes and ultimately threaten them with destruction. The Shades have the remarkable ability to be able to absorb the psyche of the dying into a group consciousness and thus to convey a form of immortality.

Hawke is best known for the science fiction cycle Timewars and the fantasy cycle of the Wizard of 4th Street . The Timewars are about a kind of temporary police trying to prevent manipulations of the past by time travelers . That would not be new in itself, only the alternative histories that arise - or have arisen - from such manipulation are at the same time well-known fictional worlds , in the first volume for example the world of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe , for whose inhabitants our Middle Ages, conversely, represent an alternative, unreal timeline.

The Wizard of 4th Street cycle is a mix of fantasy and science fiction. It takes place in a world of the 23rd century in which technical civilization has collapsed. This collapse frees the magician Merlin from the spell that Nimue once put on him, and with Merlin magic returns to the world and begins to take the place of science and technology. From now on, even taxis will no longer run on petrol, but rather with magic formulas. In this world, Wydrune, a student of Merlin, deals with various dark powers and demonic opponents with the help of the thief Kira and Mordreds , the son of King Arthur . The Reluctant Sorcerer trilogy offers a similar mixture of SF and fantasy , with the protagonist stranded with a time machine in a world in which magic works.

Hawke also wrote a number of novel versions of films, such as the Friday the 13th film series , as well as tie-ins for Batman , Star Trek ( TOS and NG ) and a trilogy for the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons .

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Series and cycles

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

Boomerang / The Shade Trilogy
  • Last Communion (1981)
  • Epiphany (1982)
  • Jehad (1984)
  • The Shade Trilogy (2014, collective edition from 1–3)
Timewars
  • 1 The Ivanhoe Gambit (1984)
    • English: The Ivanhoe Gambit. Translated by Bernd Kling. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction # 23166, 1995, ISBN 3-404-23166-X .
  • 2 The Timekeeper Conspiracy (1984)
    • English: The Richelieu Intrigue. Translated by Bernd Kling. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction # 23171, 1995, ISBN 3-404-23171-6 .
  • 3 The Pimpernel Plot (1984)
    • English: The Pimpernell plot. Translated by Bernd Kling. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction # 23175, 1996, ISBN 3-404-23175-9 .
  • 4 The Zenda Vendetta (1985)
    • English: The Zenda-Vendetta. Translated by Rainer Gladys. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction # 23181, 1996, ISBN 3-404-23181-3 .
  • 5 The Nautilus Sanction (1985)
    • English: The Nautilus maneuver. Translated by Rainer Gladys. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction # 23187, 1997, ISBN 3-404-23187-2 .
  • 6 The Khyber Connection (1986)
  • 7 The Argonaut Affair (1987)
  • 8 the Dracula Caper (1988)
  • 9 The Lilliput Legion (1989)
  • 10 the Hellfire Rebellion (1990)
  • 11 The Cleopatra Crisis (1990)
  • 12 The Six-Gun Solution (1991)
Friday the 13th (novel versions of the film series)
  • 1 Friday the 13th (1987)
  • 2 Friday the 13th Part II (1988)
  • 3 Friday the 13th Part III (1988)
  • 4 Jason Lives: Friday the 13th, Part IV (1986)
Psychodromes
  • 1 Psychodrome (1987)
  • 2 The Shapechanger Scenario (1988)
The Wizard of 4th Street
  • The Wizard of 4th Street (1987)
    • English: The Wizard from 4th Street. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5332, 1995, ISBN 3-453-08579-5 .
  • The Wizard of Whitechapel (1988)
  • The Wizard of Sunset Strip (1989)
  • The Wizard of Rue Morgue (1990)
  • The Samurai Wizard (1991)
  • The Wizard of Santa Fe (1991)
  • The 9 Lives of Catseye Gomez (1991, short story)
  • The Nine Lives of Catseye Gomez (1992)
  • The Wizard of Lovecraft's Cafe (1993)
  • The Wizard of Camelot (1993)
  • The Last Wizard (1997)
Donovan Steele (as JD Masters)
  • 1 Steele (1989)
  • 2 Cold Steele (1989)
  • 3 Killer Steele (1990)
  • 4 Jagged Steele (1990)
  • 5 Renegade Steele (1990)
  • 6 Target Steele (1990)
Reluctant Sorcerer
  • 1 The Reluctant Sorcerer (1992)
  • 2 The Inadequate Adept (1993)
  • 3 The Ambivalent Magician (1996)
Sons of Glory
  • 1 Sons of Glory (1992)
  • 2 Sons of Glory: Call to Battle (1993)
Dark Sun (Tie-ins to the Dark Sun game world from Dungeons & Dragons )
  • The Broken Blade (Chronicles of Athas # 3, 1995)

Tribe of One:

  • 1 The Outcast (1993)
  • 2 The Seeker (1994)
  • 3 The Nomad (1994)
Birthright
  • 1 The Iron Throne (1995)
  • 2 War (1996)
Shakespeare and Smythe
  • 1 A Mystery of Errors (2000)
  • 2 The Slaying of the Shrew (2001)
  • 3 Much Ado About Murder (2002)
  • 4 The Merchant of Vengeance (2003)

Single novels

  • Journey from Flesh (1981)
  • Clique (1982)
  • Fall Into Darkness (1982)
    • English: fall into darkness. Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5806, 1986, ISBN 3-426-05806-5 .
  • The Living Legend (1982, Battlestar Galactica 1 # 6, with Glen A. Larson)
  • War of the Gods (1982, Battlestar Galactica 1 # 7, with Glen A. Larson)
  • Predator 2 (1990)
  • Batman: To Stalk a Specter (1991)
    • English: Batman in the crosshairs. Translated by Gisela Kirst-Tinnefeld. Goldmann Taschenbuch # 8231, 1992, ISBN 3-442-08231-5 .
  • The Romulan Prize (Star Trek: The Next Generation # 26, 1993)
    • English: Star Trek - The Next Generation: The Prey of the Romulans. Translated by Bernhard Kempen. Heyne, 2014, ISBN 978-3-641-11561-6 .
  • Blaze of Glory (Star Trek: The Next Generation # 34, 1994)
    • German: Star Trek - The Next Generation: The Return of the Despot. Translated by Uwe Anton. Heyne, 2014, ISBN 978-3-641-11699-6 .
  • The Patrian Transgression (Star Trek TOS Tie-in, 1994)
    • German: Star Trek - Classic: The Terrorists of Patria. Translated by Bernhard Kempen. Heyne, 2014, ISBN 978-3-641-11746-7 .
  • The Whims of Creation (1995)

Short stories

  • The Surrogate Mouth (1978)
  • Writer's Block (1978)
    • German: The ineptitude of the artist. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 87. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31025, 1981, ISBN 3-548-31025-7 .
  • The Whisper of Banshees (1979)
  • A Glint of Gold (1980)
    • English: A shimmer of gold. In: Manfred Kluge (ed.): Dangerous games. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3899, 1982, ISBN 3-453-30822-0 .
  • Far Removed from the Scene of the Crime (1980)
    • German: Far from the scene of the crime. In: Manfred Kluge (Ed.): The time syndicate. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3845, 1981, ISBN 3-453-30774-7 .
  • Melpomene, Calliope ... and Fred (1980)
  • Crash Course for the Ravers (1981)
  • The Orpheus Implant (1981)
  • Tomorrow Mourning (1981)
  • Drift Away (1981)
  • Hamburger Heaven (1982)
  • The ECM War (1982)
  • Fortunes of a Fool (1985)
  • War (excerpt) (1996)
  • My Claw Is Quick (1998)
  • The Sumter Scenario: A Time Wars Story (2001)
  • A Gun for Johnny Reb (2002)
  • Sargasso (2002)

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personal data
SURNAME Hawke, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yermakov, Nicholas Valentin (maiden name); Masters, JD (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction and fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City