Phyllis Gotlieb

Phyllis Gotlieb, born Phyllis Fay Bloom ( born May 26, 1926 in Toronto, Ontario, † July 14, 2009 in Toronto, Ontario ) was a Canadian poet and science fiction author. Her novel A Judgement of Dragons won the 1982 Aurora Award for Best Novel.

She was the daughter of a theater owner who spent much of her childhood with the films that could see them in the venues of her father, and decided early on to become a writer. She studied language and literature at the University of Toronto and graduated in 1950 with a master 's degree. Then she did at first as a poet out and has appeared at poetry readings with Leonard Cohen and Irving Layton on. In order to overcome writer's block in her poetry in the 1950s, she began on the advice of her husband, to write SF. The resulting narrative A Grain Of Manhood was released in 1959.

Her novel Sunburst (1964 ) portrays the consequences of a nuclear accident, after even those appearing among the genetically damaged children with supernatural abilities and come into conflict with society. The subject of telepathy is designed in many of their texts, as well as the opportunities and threats of genetics. In O Master Caliban! (1976 ) try robot to create their deceased masters on a dangerous jungle planet from human and animal genetic material new, had constructed exactly as he himself creatures. In addition to novels and short stories - including the feminist fantasy novel Birthstone ( 2007) - she continued to write poetry, but also radio and theater plays.

Considered the grande dame of Canadian science fiction. After the title of her first science fiction novel - one of the first examples of Canadian SF at all - was later named in their lifetime, the Canadian science fiction literature prize Sunburst.

She lived in Toronto, and was married to the computer science professor Calvin Gotlieb. 83 years, she died in 2009 of a ruptured appendix.

Works

Fiction

  • Sunburst, 1964 (Eng. The scourge of the light. A classic science fiction novel, 1981, translated by Walter Brumm )
  • Why Should I Have All the Grief, 1969 ( no SF)
  • O Master Caliban! , 1976 (Eng. Oh, Master Caliban, 1982, translated by Hilde Linnert )
  • Son of the Morning and Other Stories, 1983 ( short story collection )
  • Heart of Red Iron, 1989 ( Continued from O Master Caliban! )
  • Blue Apes, 1995 (short story collection )
  • Birthstones, 2007

Starcats trilogy

  • A Judgment of Dragons, 1980
  • Emperor, Swords, Pentacles, 1982
  • The Kingdom of the Cats, 1985

GalFed trilogy

  • Flesh and Gold, 1998
  • Violent Stars, 1999
  • Mind Worlds, 2002

Poetry

  • Who Knows One, 1961
  • Within the Zodiac, 1964
  • Ordinary Moving, 1969
  • Doctor Umlaut 's Earthly Kingdom, 1974
  • The Works, 1978
  • Red Blood Black Ink White Paper: New and Selected Poems 1961-2001, 2002

As editor

  • Tesseract 2 (with Douglas Barbour )
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