Damon Knight

Biography

Born in the Oregon, it leaves the family home at the 19 years age to go to New York, where he becomes member of the group The Futurians , in company, inter alia, of Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl. It publishes its first news, Resilience , in 1941.

With being recognized as author, it is initially famous like literary criticism. Its first criticism, published in a Fanzine, in connection with the novel Le Monde of Ā of A.E. van Vogt has a considerable impact on the novel and is often quoted like the most virulent criticism in the field (“Van Vogt is a Pygmy which uses a typewriter giant”). Van Vogt, far from of offusquer, predicted on the contrary with the young man, the reading of his style, a “brilliant literary career”. Knight will be able to thank some at the proper time by writing the Tree for time , Nouvelle of inspiration completely van vogtienne and wink of “pro”.

While waiting, he comments on other novels for many magazines and is generally regarded as the first critic of science fiction. Besides he receives a Prix Hugo in 1956 for a compilation of his criticisms.

Its first novel, Hell' S Pavement is published in 1955. In 1965, it off founds the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers America (SFWA), of which he is the first president until in 1967. He is also cofounder of the National Fantasy Fan Federation, of the Milford Writers' Conference (with Judith Merril and James Blish) and of the Clarion Writers Workshop .

In 1971, it writes a Biographie Charles Ford. However, its main activity will be the edition, in particular that of the Anthologie Orbit , of which more than 20 volumes were already published.

In 1994, the SFWA decrees to him the Grand Master Award to underline the whole of its work. With its death, this price is famous Damon Knight Memorial Large Master Award in its honor.

The general public knows in particular its work by the means of the televised series the Fourth Dimension , which bases one of its more famous episodes on the Nouvelle To Serve Man ( to serve the man , included in several anthologies).

He is the husband of Kate Wilhelm, also author of science fiction.

Works

(not-exhaustive list)

Novels

1955 : Paving stone of the hell ( Hell' S Pavement , also published under the name Similar Men ) - Presses Pocket Science fiction N°5131, 1982
1958: VOR (in collaboration with James Blish)
1959: Masters off Evolution
1959: All and anything ( The People Maker , also published under the name has for anything )
1961: The Sun Saboteurs
1964: Last the barrier of time ( Beyond the Time Barrier ) also published under the name The tree off time
1965: mental Permutation ( Mind Switch') - Futurama (Presses of the City) N°25, 1979

1965: Off Center

1965: The Rithian Terror

1970 : The Earth Quarter

1970 : World without Children

1980 : The World and Thorinn

1984 : Gene Metamorphoses Anderson ( The Man in the Tree ) - Galaxy-(a) N°122, 1985

1991: Double Meaning 1991)

1991: God' S Nose

1992: Why C Birds

1996: Humpty Dumpty: Year Oval

News

1949 : Into soft ( Not with has Bang )
1950: to serve the man ( To Serve Man )
1955: You will not kill… ( The Country off the Kind )
the Tree of time ( The Tree off Time )

Other writings

The Futurians (memory and history)
In Search off Wonder (re-examined selected and critical)
Turning Points (editor for the anthology criticizes)
Orbit (editor)

See too

External bonds

French Bibliography
Site of the SFWA
Site of the '' National Fantasy Fan Federation ''
Site of the '' Clarion Writers Workshop ''
Bibliography

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