Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror
writing, editing, painting.
Music
Rock, Folk, Jazz, Electronic
The Doors, The Monkees, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, ELO, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, John Prine, Jean Michel Jarre
Movies
Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Edward Scissorhands, The Princess Bride, Batman, Forbidden Planet, Dark Star, Metropolis, The Cabinst of Dr. Caligari, Freaks
Television
Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The Prisoner, Max Headroom, Babylon 5, Lost, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus
The works of Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Robert E. Howard, William Sloane, Cordwainer Smith, George MacDonald, David Lindsay, Theodore Sturgeon, Philip K. Dick, Franz Kafka
About me:
I am a biologist-turned-librarian who dabbles in writing and editing.
Born and bred in Northeast Philadelphia, I received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia in 1969, a Master of Science in Biology from Villanova in 1974, and a Master of Science in Information Science from Drexel in 1986.
At various times I've been, among other things, a mosquito hunter for encephalitis control, a laboratory research assistant, an indexer and abstractor, an assistant editor, a library assistant, and since 1988, a professional librarian.
Non-professionally, I've been at various times a downhill skier, scuba diver, hang glider, photographer and painter.
I joined the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society in 1973, served as assistant editor with ISAAC ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE in the late 70’s and early 80’s, and wrote occasional book reviews for SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW and THRUST around the same time.
More recently, I've edited a collection of stories by Phil Nowlan, the creator of Buck Rogers, and found the lost ending to the notorious classic, "The Eye of Argon." The now complete story, with my intro, is in print from Wildside Press.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FICTION:
“The Box” WHISPERS December, 1976.
Reprinted in WHISPERS II, edited by Stuart Schiff. New York:
Doubleday & Co. Inc, 1979.
Reprinted in MAD SCIENTISTS, edited by Stuart Schiff New York:
Doubleday & Co., 1980
“The Lady in Darkness” GOTHIC June, 1980
“Relatively Speaking” (with Darrell Schweitzer) ISAAC ASIMOV’S
SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE. April, 1980.
“Superhero” CYBERAGE ADVENTURES (tba)
“Timothy” INHUMAN (tba)
NON-FICTION:
“Chambers and ‘The King in Yellow.’” STARWIND. Autumn, 1976.
Reprinted in THE ROMANTIST #3, 1979.
Reprinted in DISCOVERING CLASSIC HORROR I, edited by
Darrell Schweitzer Starmont House, 1992.
Reprinted in TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERARY CRITICISM
V. 41 p. 102 Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1991.
“Robert W. Chambers” in SUPERNATURAL FICTION WRITERS
V. II, edited by E.F. Bleiler. New York: Charles Scribner’s
Sons.
“The First Literary Copernicus.” NYCTALOPS.. January, 1980.
“The Yellow Wallpaper: a Supernatural Interpretation” STUDIES IN
WEIRD FICTION #4. Fall, 1988.
Reprinted in TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERARY CRITICISM
V. 37 p. 211 Detroit: Gale Research, Inc. 1991
“Edward Lucas White” STUDIES IN WEIRD FICTION #11 Spring,
1992.
“Introduction” in THE COMPLETE WANDERING GHOSTS by F.
Marion Crawford Wildside Press, 2002
Also appears in KHALED by F. Marion Crawford Wildside
Press, 2001.
“In Search of Kirk Allen.” THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE
FICTION. April, 2001.
“In Search of ‘The Eye of Argon.’” THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF
SCIENCE FICTION. November, 2004 & February, 2005.
Reprinted as introduction to THE EYE OF ARGON. Wildside
Press. (2006)
“Meeting Piltdown” THE AURELIAN. #2, 2005
“Quest for Le Petomane.”
SHOCKED AND AMAZED #9, 2007
“Encounter on Loch Ness” MORBID CURIOSITY #10, Spring 2006
EDITING:
SESTA AND OTHER STRANGE STORIES by Edward Lucas
White. Seattle: Midnight House, 2001
HEAVY PLANET AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION STORIES by
Milton A. Rothman (co-edited with Darrell Schweitzer)
Wildside Press, 2004.
WINGS OVER TOMORROW by Philip Francis Nowlan.
Wildside Press, 2005.
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Who I'd like to meet: People into imaginative literature,film and art. Science fiction, fantasy, horror, and surrealism.
Also intactivists and atheists.
Hey Lee - I'll be reading from the sequel to The Plot to Save Socrates - Unburning Alexandria - in Philadelphia next Friday. Hope you and Diane can come by!
Thanks for becoming my friend. Please visit me often – things are always changing! In the meantime – Watch the trailer! Enter the contest! Add TASB to your Netflix queue!
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Kindest regards Matt Townsend Director of Novel-storm Ltd.
Mahalo nui loa (Thank you very much -in Hawaiian) I appreciate the add because I appreciate your politics and your general sense of "way". Check out the pipes on Marie MacGillis http://www. mariemacgillis. com/420. html Aloha, my new friend.
