Stuart J. Byrne

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Stuart James Byrne (born October 26, 1913 in St. Paul , Minnesota - † September 23, 2011 in Ojai , California ) was an American writer and screenwriter .

Life

Byrne moved to California with his family when he was twelve years old. Already at this time he was interested in science fiction and was actively involved in astronomy . He received at the beginning of the 1930s University of California, Los Angeles the Master of Arts and published in 1935 his first science fiction story, Music of the Spheres , in the magazine Amazing Stories . Other stories appeared in Science Stories , Imagination Magazine and Other Worlds Magazine over the next two decades . Under his own name and the pseudonyms Rothayne Amare , John Bloodstone , Howard Dare and the collective pseudonym Marx Kaye , Byrne wrote mainly short stories, but also novels. His most famous character is that of "Michael Flanagan", the hero of three stories that he published as John Bloodstone. A Tarzan story by Byrnes, written in 1955, could never be published due to the lack of consent from Edgar Rice Burroughs ' heirs . In the 1970s he translated some Perry Rhodan novels into English.

From 1959, Byrne was hired as a screenwriter for the television series Men into Space . He also wrote the script for the spaghetti western Die Höllenhunde (1971) and for the 1972 science fiction film Hydra Lost in Galaxy 4 .

Byrne had been married since the 1930s and had two children.

bibliography

Stephen Germain (novels)
  • 1 Prometheus II (in: Amazing Stories, February 1948 )
  • 2 The Golden Guardsmen (3 parts in: Other Worlds Science Stories, April 1952  ff.)
Colossus (short stories)
  • Colossus (in: Other Worlds Science Stories, May 1950 )
  • Colossus II (in: Other Worlds Science Stories, July 1950 )
  • Colussus III (in: Other Worlds Science Stories, September 1950 )
Michael Flannigan (short novels)
  • 1 Land Beyond the Lens (in: Amazing Stories, March 1952 )
  • 2 The Golden Gods (in: Amazing Stories, April 1952 )
    • German: Under the spell of the moon world. Translated by Fritzheinz van Doornick. Pabel (Utopia Science Fiction # 89), 1957.
  • 3 The Return of Michael Flannigan (in: Amazing Stories, August 1952 )
Larry Buchanan (novels)
  • 1 Power Metal (3 parts in: Other Worlds Science Stories, May 1953  ff.)
  • 2 Star Man (1969)
The David Duquayne Saga (novels)
  • 1 The Alpha Trap (1976)
  • 2 Lord of the Djinn (2008)
Star Man (short stories)
  • 1 Supermen of Alpha (1979, in: Perry Rhodan # 137: The Phantom Horde / Star Man 1–5 )
  • 2 Time Window (1979, in: Perry Rhodan # 137: The Phantom Horde / Star Man 1–5 )
  • 3 Interstellar Mutineers (1979, in: Perry Rhodan # 137: The Phantom Horde / Star Man 1–5 )
  • 4 The Cosmium Raiders (1979, in: Perry Rhodan # 137: The Phantom Horde / Star Man 1–5 )
  • 5 The World Changer (1979, in: Perry Rhodan # 137: The Phantom Horde / Star Man 1–5 )
  • 6 The Slaves of Venus (1980, in: Stuart J. Byrne: Star Man 6–11 )
  • 7 Lost in the Milky Way (1980, in: Stuart J. Byrne: Star Man 6–11 )
  • 8 Time Trap (1980, in: Stuart J. Byrne: Star Man 6–11 )
  • 9 The Centaurian (1980, in: Stuart J. Byrne: Star Man 6–11 )
  • 10 The Emperor (1980, in: Stuart J. Byrne: Star Man 6–11 )
  • 11 The Return of Star Man (1980, in: Stuart J. Byrne: Star Man 6–11 )
  • Star Man 6-11 (1980, collection)
  • The First Star Man Omnibus (2005, Collection of 1 and 2)
Novels
  • Last Days of Thronas (in: Science Stories, February 1954 ; also: The Last Days of Thronas , 2013)
  • Godman! (1970; as John Bloodstone)
  • Thundar (1971; also: Thundar: Man of Two Worlds , 2009)
  • The Visitation (1977; as Rothayne Amare)
Collections
  • The Music of the Spheres & Other Classic Science Fiction Stories (2013)
Short stories

1935:

  • The Music of the Spheres (in: Amazing Stories, August 1935 ; also: Music of the Spheres , 2013)

1951:

  • Beyond the Darkness (in: Other Worlds Science Stories, June and July 1951 )
  • A Matter of Perspective (in: Other Worlds Science Stories, October 1951 )

1952:

  • Qsrthnxrpqrpf * (in: Other Worlds Science Stories, March 1952 ; also: Gsrthnxrpqrpf (*) , 2013)
  • The Ultimate Death (in: Other Worlds Science Stories, July 1952 )
  • The Naked Goddess (in: Other Worlds Science Stories, October 1952 ; also: Lady of Flame , 1953)
  • Children of the Chronotron (in: Imagination, December 1952 )
    • German: victim of the future. Translated by Horst Mayer. Pabel (Utopia Science Fiction # 497), 1966.

1953:

  • The Bridge (in: Science Stories, December 1953 )
  • Potential Zero (in: Science Stories, December 1953 )

1954:

  • Beware the Star Gods (in: Imagination, June 1954 )

1957:

  • The Metamorphs (in: Other Worlds Science Stories, January 1957 )
    • English: The invasion of the soulless. Translated by Walter K. Baumann. Pabel (Utopia Science Fiction # 199), 1959.
  • Spaceship Named Desire (in: Flying Saucers from Other Worlds, July 1957 ; also: A Spaceship Named Desire , 2013)

1975:

  • Test Flight to Eden (1975, 2 parts in: Perry Rhodan # 68: Under the Stars of Druufon  ff .; with Clark Darlton )
    • English: The flight to Eden. Translated by Rosemarie Heinemann. In: SF Perry Rhodan Magazin, 5/79. Paebl, 1979.

2013:

  • The Ghost of Future-Past (2013, in: Stuart J. Byrne: The Music of the Spheres & Other Classic Science Fiction Stories )
  • The Man Who Challenged God (2013, in: Stuart J. Byrne: The Music of the Spheres & Other Classic Science Fiction Stories )
  • A Star Fell on Okajuma (2013, in: Stuart J. Byrne: The Music of the Spheres & Other Classic Science Fiction Stories )
Non-fiction
  • Saved by an Angel and Other Strange, True and Untold Tales from the Life of a Maverick Science Fiction Writer (2013)

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ray Palmer: Tarzan never dies .
  2. ↑ Stu Byrne: Who is SJ Byrne aka John Bloodstone. An Autobiography on ERBzine.
personal data
SURNAME Byrne, Stuart J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Byrne, Stuart James (real name); Amare, Rothayne (pseudonym); Bloodstone, John (pseudonym); Dare, Howard (pseudonym); Kaye, Marx (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American novelist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Paul, Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 2011
Place of death Ojai