Ellis’s subject is not only the founding era, but also our own, and the “ongoing conversation between past and present.” The author of numerous books on the early United States, Ellis draws connections between our history and our current age with an authority that few other writers can m...
His film work in the '70s varied from starring roles ("The Man," "Claudine"), to ensemble works and supporting characters ("The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings," "The Greatest," "Jesus of Nazareth"). But his least visible job – a voiceover for a science-fiction film ...
"Some writers have said in print that they hated writing, it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult but you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve but which you never stop trying to achieve,"...
with a mix of SF, fantasy, horror, and mythic elements. “Her distinctive, elegant prose articulates the anxieties of living in a mostly heteronormative society… a strong debut, only reinforcing that we are in a
There, by 1968, he had become the leader of the “Family,” a communal religious cult dedicated to studying and implementing his eccentric religious teachings, which were drawn from science fiction as well as the occult and fringe psychology. He preached the coming of an apocalyptic race war ...
Not a novel, but I want to briefly mention that the American writers R. O. Kwon (The Incendiaries) and Garth Greenwell (Cleanness–one ofmy favourite novels of 2020) have teamed up to produce an anthology of short fiction calledKink,which explores questions of love and desire “across the...
The Financial Times said that it “confirms Serpell’s place as one of the most innovative and intelligent writers today.” I’m also intrigued by a novella by another Clarke Award-winner, Tade Thompson, who is stepping away from science fiction with Jackdaw, a darkly comic story about a...
Kate Elliott is the pen name of American fantasy and science fiction writer Alis A. Rasmussen (born 1958). 34 Shawn Elliott 03/01/1937 1 Shawn Elliott is an actor. Birthplace: Puerto Rico 35 Josh Elliott 07/06/1971 1 Joshua Michael Elliott (born July 6, 1971) is an American television...
also co-produced hundreds of Playboy-branded videos and a few feature films, such as Roman Polanski’sMacbethand Monty Python’s first film,And Now for Something Completely Different, both released in 1971. He had been a sought-after guest on TV shows as far back as 1969 when he played ...
1DraftKurt Vonnegut Jr., undoubtedly one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, wrote Slaughterhouse Five nearly 20 years after his war experience in Dresden, Germany. Because of the traumatic events Vonnegut witnessed and suffered during the聽war, he has written a shockingly absurd tale ...