Richard A. Lupoff
Richard A. Lupoff | |
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Born | Richard Allen Lupoff February 21, 1935 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
Died | October 22, 2020 Berkeley, California, U.S. | (aged 85)
Pen name | Ova Hamlet Robert A. Mainline Ray Razzberry Addison Steele II Addison E. Steele A. E. Van Hocked |
Occupation | Writer |
Alma mater | University of Miami |
Genre | Science fiction, mystery, horror |
Notable works | |
Spouse | Pat Lupoff |
Richard Allen Lupoff (February 21, 1935 – October 22, 2020) was an American
Early life and education
Born February 21, 1935, in
Technology career
After completion of his degree and military service, Lupoff worked as a technical writer at
Writing career
He began his writing career in
Lupoff was an editor of Edgar Rice Burroughs for Canaveral Press, and in 1965, at the request of the company's owners, wrote a biography of Burroughs, Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure, his first book.[6]
Science fiction
He began publishing fiction in 1967 with the novel One Million Centuries, and became a full-time writer in 1970.[4] His next novels were Sacred Locomotive Flies (1971) and Into the Aether (1974); he is credited with more than 50 books, plus short fiction, nonfiction, and memoirs. He sometimes wrote under pseudonyms, such as Addison E. Steele, which he used for Buck Rogers novels,[4] and Ova Hamlet, which he frequently used for parodies, collected in The Ova Hamlet Papers in 1975.[7] Pastiche of other authors' styles and story settings and use of other authors and friends as characters are features of his writing.
Among his best-known novels are the duology Circumpolar! (1984) and Countersolar! (1987). His novel Sword of the Demon was nominated for the 1977 Nebula Award.[8] Robert Silverberg described it as "a strange and austerely beautiful fable that cuts across genre lines."[9]
His short fiction, which has often been collected and anthologized, includes the 1973 short story "
His novelette "After the Dreamtime" and his short story "Sail the Tide of Mourning" received Hugo Award nominations in 1975 and 1976.
Mystery
Returning to full-time writing, he turned, instead, to mystery. The Comic Book Killer. published in 1988, has several sequels.[4] His first collection of short mystery stories is Quintet: The Cases of Chase and Delacroix (2008).
Radio program: Probabilities
Starting in 1977, Lupoff co-hosted a program on
Personal life
Richard and Pat Lupoff were married from 1958 until her death in 2018, and had three children.[4][7] They lived in Westchester County and then in Manhattan,[6] and later in Northern California. He died in Oakland, CA on October 22, 2020.[7]
Bibliography
Novels
- One Million Centuries (1967)
- Sacred Locomotive Flies (1971)
- Into the Aether (1974)
- The Crack in the Sky [vt Fool's Hill (1978 UK)](1976)
- Sandworld (1976)
- Lisa Kane (1976)
- The Triune Man (1976)
- Sword of the Demon (1977)
- The Return of SkullFace (1977)
- Space War Blues (1978)
- Lovecraft's Book (1985)
- The Forever City (1988)
- The Comic Book Killer (1988)
- The Adventures of Professor Thintwhistle and His Incredible Aether Flyer (1991) with Steve Stiles
- Night of the Living Gator (1992)
- Marblehead (Ramble House, 2006). The unexpurgated edition of Lovecraft's Book.
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1978) [as by Addison E. Steele]
- Buck Rogers: That Man On Beta (1979) [as by Addison E. Steele]
- Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon (Dungeon series)
- First book: The Black Tower (1988)
- Sixth book: The Final Battle (1990)
- Sun's End
- Sun's End (1984)
- Galaxy's End (1988)
- Twin Planets
- Circumpolar! (1984)
- Countersolar! (1985)
- Detective Fiction
- The Comic Book Killer (1988)
- The Classic Car Killer (1992)
- The Bessie Blue Killer (1994)
- The Sepia Siren Killer (1994)
- The Cover Girl Killer (1995)
- The Silver Chariot Killer (1996)
- The Radio Red Killer (1997)
- One Murder at a Time (associated short fiction) (2001)
- The Emerald Cat Killer (2012)
- Rookie Blues (one-off) (2012)
Short fiction
- Nebogipfel at the End of Time (1978/1979)
- Collections
- The Ova Hamlet Papers (1979)
- The Digital Wristwatch of Philip K. Dick / Hyperprism (1994)
- Before ... 12:01 ... and After (1996) Fedogan & Bremer, pub. Introduction by Robert Silverberg.
- Jubilee (1997) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology "Alternate Tyrants")
- Claremont Tales (2001)
- Claremont Tales II (2002)
- Terrors (2005)
- Quintet: The Cases of Chase and Delacroix (2006). Crippen & Landru, (2006)
- The Compleat Ova Hamlet (2007)
- Deep Space (2009)
- Visions (2009)
- Dreams (2011)
- Killer's Dozen (2013)
- Dreamer's Dozen (2015)
- Anthologies
- What If? Volume 1, Stories That Should Have Won The Hugo, (1980), stories from 1952–1958.
- What If? Volume 2, Stories That Should Have Won The Hugo, (1981).
- The Best of Xero, (2005), selections from Xero
- What If? Volume 3 (2014)
Nonfiction
Books
- Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs (1965, a 2005 reprint in the Bison Frontiers of Imagination series)
- All in Color for a Dime (co-ed w/Don Thompson) (1970)
- The Comic-Book Book (co-ed w/Don Thompson) (1973)
- Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and Martian Vision (1976)
- Writer at Large (1998)
- The Great American Paperback (2001)
- The Best of Xero (w/Pat Lupoff) (2005)
- WRITER: Volume 1 (2010)
- WRITER: Volume 2 (2010)
- WRITER: Volume 3 (2016)
- Where Memory Hides: A Writer's Life (2016)
Articles
- "What's Left of the Science Fiction Market?," The Writer, May 1956
Book reviews
Date | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
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December 2013 | Lupoff, Richard A. (December 2013). "Locus Looks at Books : Divers Hands". Locus (635): 23, 53–54. |
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References
- ISBN 978-0520297555.
- ISBN 0870001930.
- ^ Nick Gevers, "Behind the Face-paint: an interview with Richard A Lupoff" Infinity Plus, April 21, 2001, retrieved October 23, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Mike Glyer, "Richard Lupoff (1935-2020)", File 770, October 22, 2020, retrieved October 23, 2020.
- ^ "Lupoff, Richard A.", The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, April 7, 2020.
- ^ a b c d Richard Lupoff, "SF Recollections", Timebinders: Omni Online, January 1995, via Timebinders.
- ^ a b c "Richard A. Lupoff (1935-2020)", Locus, October 22, 2020, retrieved October 23, 2020.
- ^ a b "The Locus Index to SF Awards", archived on February 9, 2010.
- ^ "Books", Cosmos, July 1977, p. 35.
- ^ "In Memoriam: Steve Stiles (1943-2020)", Balticon 54, retrieved October 24, 2020.
- ISBN 9780313329500, Volume 2: Themes L-Z, p. 756.
- ^ Richard Wolinsky, "About Bookwaves", retrieved March 26, 2019.
External links
- "Richard Lupoff at Shorter Length" by Claude Lalumière
- Richard A. Lupoff: author bibliography, biography, books, series, web links at the Wayback Machine (archived September 5, 2015)
- Richard A. Lupoff at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ERBzine: "Lupoff of Mars" by Dale R. Broadhurst
- Earl Kemp on Richard Lupoff
- Richard A. Lupoff at IMDb