Bruce Boston

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bruce Boston is a U.S. speculative writer and poet who was born in Chicago in 1943 and grew up in Southern California. He currently lives in Ocala, Florida, with his wife, writer-artist Marge Simon.

Generally considered one of the leading poets in science fiction, fantasy, and horror, Boston has won the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry a record seven times: for Best Long Poem in 1989 and 1999, and for Best Short Poem in 1985, 1988, 1994, 1996 and 2001, and the Asimov's Readers' Award for poetry a record five times: 1990, 1994, 1997, 2003 and 2005. He has also received a Pushcart Prize for fiction, 1976, the Bram Stoker Award for poetry, 2004, and the first Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, 1999. His collaborative poem with Robert Frazier, "Chronicles of the Mutant Rain Forest," received first place in the 2006 Locus Online Poetry Poll for Best All-Time Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Poem.

Though best known for his poetry, Boston has also published numerous short stories and the novel Stained Glass Rain. Both his fiction and poetry exhibit a wide variety in styles and subjects. Writing in The Washington Post, Paul Di Filippo described his collection Masque of Dreams as containing "nearly two dozen brilliant stories ranging across all emotional and narrative terrains." Reviewing Stained Glass Rain for Tangent, Howard V. Hendrix called it "the best novel yet written about the sixties and its drug culture."

[edit] List of books

Jackbird. BPW&P, 1976
She Comes When You're Leaving. BPW&P, 1982
All the Clock Are Melting. Velocities, 1984
Alchemical Texts. Ocean View, 1985
Nuclear Futures. Velocities, 1987
Time. Titan, 1988
Skin Trades, Chris Drumm Books, 1988
The Nightmare Collector. 2AM Publications, 1989
Faces of the Beast. Starmont House, 1990
After Magic. Eotu, 1990, Dark Regions, 1999
Hypertales & Metafictions. Chris Drumm, 1990
Houses. Talisman, 1991
Short Circuits. Ocean View, 1991
Cybertexts. Talisman, 1991
Chronicles of the Mutant Rain Forest (with Robert Frazier). Horror's Head Press, 1992
Accursed Wives. Night Visions, 1993
Specula: Selected Uncollected Poems, 1968-1993. Talisman, 1993
Night Eyes. Chris Drumm, 1993
Stained Glass Rain. Ocean View, 1993, Wildside, 2003
Sensuous Debris: Selected Poems, 1970-1995. Dark Regions, 1995
Conditions of Sentient Life. Gothic Press, 1996
Cold Tomorrows. Gothic Press, 1998
Dark Tales & Light. Dark Regions, 1999
The Complete Accursed Wives. Talisman/Dark Regions, 2000
Pavane for a Cyber-Princess. Miniature Sun, 2001
White Space. Dark Regions, 2001
Quanta: Award Winning Poems. Miniature Sun, 2001
Masque of Dreams. Wildside, 2001
Night Smoke (with Marge Simon), Miniature Sun & Quixsilver, 2002
She Was There for Him the Last Time. Miniature Sun, 2002
Head Full of Strange. CyberPulp, 2003
Pitchblende. Dark Regions, 2003
Bruce Boston: Short Stories, Volume 1. Fictionwise, 2003
Bruce Boston: Short Stories, Volume 2. Fictionwise, 2003
Etiquette with Your Robot Wife. Talisman, 2005
Flashing the Dark. Sam's Dot Publishing, 2006
Shades Fantastic. Gromagon Press, 2006
The Nightmare Collection. Wicked Karnival/Grafika, forthcoming