Ken Scholes

Ken Scholes ( born January 13, 1968 the U.S. state of Washington) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He is known primarily for his fantasy cycle Psalms of Isaac through a post-apocalyptic world, The Legend of Isaac at the Del Rey -Verlag published in Germany under the name.

Life

He describes himself as a "trailer boy", or " caravan - boy " by which he alludes to the life circumstances of his youth in a Trailer village at the foot of Mount Rainier. Even as a 13 - year-old he had to be after reading Ray Bradbury on How to Keep and Feed a Muse dreamed writer. He had been encouraged by an English teacher and his mother, who had given him a small typewriter, with the age of about 15 years had its first cancellations. After his military service in Germany and studying history at Western Washington University, he worked as a sailor, preacher, armourer and independent sales representatives. It was not until the late 20s he turned to a satisfactory literature workshop at the publisher and editor of Fairwood Press and Talebones, Patrick Swenson, again writing to. His first short story he sold in 2000.

The short story Into the Blank Where Life is hurled won third place in the fourth quarter of the Writers of the Future Competition 2005 His first novel Lamentation appeared -. Encouraged by his friend Jay Lake and his own wife Jen - 2009 and was based on an earlier short story called Of Metal Men and Scarlet thread and Dancing with the Sunrise. Should Lamentation of the first part of a series designed to five volumes with English title Psalms of Isaak to German legend of Isaac his.

Every Saturday he posts a column on the technology of writing on genreality.net. His works have so far been partially translated into German and French language.

Ken Scholes lives with his wife Jen West Scholes and his twins in St. Helens near Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. In this case both parents share the upbringing of her two daughters, so Scholes starts, according to his own admission, his literary work regularly from 15:30 clock. His close friend and sci-fi writer Jay Lake designated Scholes jokingly because of the physical resemblance and character as at birth separate twin brother.

Works

Legend of Isaac

  • Lamentation. Tor Books, New York, 2009. Fall. Translated from English by Simone Heller, Del Rey, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-44226-672-2.
  • Praise. Translated from English by Simone Heller, Del Rey, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-44226-673-9.
  • Song of Songs. Translated from English by Simone Heller, Del Rey, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-44226-674-6.

Other novels & anthologies

  • Last Flight of the Goddess Fairwood Press, Bonney Lake, Washington, 2006.
  • Long Walks, Last Flights, and Other Strange Journeys. Fairwood Press, Bonney Lake, Washington, 2008. ( Collection of short stories )
  • Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects. Fairwood Press, Bonney Lake, Washington, 2010. ( Collection of short stories )

Short stories

  • The Taking Night, Talebones, 2000
  • So Sang the Girl Who Had No Name, Twilight Showcase, 2001 and Fortean Bureau, 2004
  • Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk, Talebones, 2001 and Best of the Rest 3: Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2001, ed. by Brian Youmans, Suddenly Press, 2002 and Revolution SF, July 2006 and Escape Pod, February 2008
  • Fearsome Jones ' Discarded Love Collection, Fortean Bureau, July 2004
  • A Good Hair Day in Anarchy, Lone Star Stories, June 2005 and Best of the Rest 4: Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2005, ed. by Brian Youmans, Suddenly Press, 2006
  • Into the Blank Where Life is hurled, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXI, ed Algis Budrys, Galaxy Press, 2005
  • The Santaman Cycle, TEL: Stories, ed. by Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2005
  • On the Settling of Ancient Scores, Son and Foe, November 2005
  • That When I Waked I Cried to Dream Again, Insidious Reflections, January 2006
  • Action Team - Ups Number Thirty -Seven, Shimmer Magazine, Winter 2006
  • There Once Was A Girl From Nantucket (A Fortean Love Story ) ( with John A. Pitts ), Fortean Bureau, March 2006
  • Of Metal Men and Scarlet Thread and Dancing with the Sunrise, Realms of Fantasy, August 2006 and Best New Fantasy 2, ed Sean Wallace, Prime Books
  • That Old - Time Religion, Weird Tales, November 2007
  • Soon We Shall All Be Saunders, Polyphony 6, ed. by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2006
  • The Great Little Falls Revival, Science Fiction Trails, Pirate Dog Press, ed. by David P. Riley, 2007
  • Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky, Clarkesworld Magazine, November 2007
  • What Child Is This, I Ask the Midnight Clear, Shimmer Magazine Holiday Chapbook, Winter 2007
  • The Doom of Love in Small Spaces, Realms of Fantasy, April 2008
  • The God - Voices of Settler 's Rest, Intergalactic Medicine Show, July 2008
  • The Night the Stars Sang Out ​​My Name, Abyss and Apex, Q3 2008.
  • Invisible Empire of Ascending Light, Eclipse 2, Night Shade Books, ed Jonathan Strahen, 2008
  • The Second Gift Given, Clarkesworld Magazine, February 2009.
  • Love in the Time of Car alarm. In: The Trouble With Heroes, November 2009, and in: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects. Fairwood Press, 2010.
  • In Time of Despair and Great Darkness. In: Realms of Fantasy, December 2009, and in: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects. Fairwood Press, 2010.
  • Grief - Stepping to the Widower's Waltz. In: Polyphony 7, ed v. Deborah Layne, Forrest Aguirre, Wheatland Press 2010, and in: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects. Fairwood Press, 2010.
  • The Starship Mechanic. (2010) with Jay Lake, in: The Year 's Best Science Fiction: Twenty- Eighth Annual Collection, July 2011 and in: The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 24, September 2011.
  • Of Missing Kings and Backward Dreams and the Honoring of Lies. In: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects. Fairwood Press, 2010.
  • Four Clowns of the Apocalypse and the Mecca of Mirth. In: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects. Fairwood Press, 2010.
  • The God - Voices of Settler 's Rest Add: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects. Fairwood Press, 2010.
  • What Child Is this I Ask the Midnight Clear. In: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects. Fairwood Press, 2010.
  • A Symmetry of Serpents and Doves. In: Metatropolis: Cascadia, November 2010.
  • Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair. In: tor.com 12 January, 2011.

Poetry

  • The Cowardly Lion's Wish slippers. Talebones # 34, Winter 2006.

Essays

  • My Pal the Philosopher clown. World Fantasy Convention 2009.
  • Afterword: A Return to the Imagination Forest. In: Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects. Fairwood Press, 2010.
  • Anything Could Be True. In: Jay Lake: The Sky That Wraps. Subterranean Press, 2010.
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