Richard A. Lupoff
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Richard Allen Lupoff (born February 21, 1935) is a science fiction and mystery author. In addition to his two dozen novels and more than 40 short stories, he has also edited science-fantasy anthologies. He is an expert on the writing of Edgar Rice Burroughs and has an interest in H. P. Lovecraft. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1970 he worked in the computer industry.
As a writer, his work is best known for pastiche and recursiveness: "pastiche" in that much of his work involves writing stories that play with styles or even universes created by other writers; "recursiveness" meaning that his work often includes other authors or friends as characters.
His genre career began in science fiction fandom in which as a long-time participant he worked on a number of fanzines, notably Xero, which he edited with his wife Pat and Bhob Stewart. It received the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 1963. The roster of contributors included such names as Dan Adkins, James Blish, Lin Carter, Avram Davidson, L. Sprague de Camp, Roger Ebert (then 17 years of age), Harlan Ellison, Ed Gorman, Eddie Jones, Roy G. Krenkel, Frederik Pohl and Bob Tucker. In 2004, a hardcover anthology, The Best of Xero, coedited with Pat Lupoff and featuring a nostalgic introduction by Ebert, was published by Tachyon Publications. It was in turn nominated for the Hugo Award.
Lupoff also wrote reviews for the fanzine Algol, and he was an editor of Edgar Rice Burroughs for Canaveral Press. In a memoir for Omni, he recalled the chain of events that led him to write his 1965 biography of Burroughs (reprinted in 2005 by the University of Nebraska Press' Bison Books):
- In 1963, I was working for IBM in the Time/Life Building at 50th Street and Sixth Avenue. Pat and I had long since moved to Manhattan and had a wonderful apartment on East 73rd Street. I had a second job, moonlighting as an editor for Canaveral Press at 63 Fourth Avenue. Working for Canaveral, I found myself acting as Edgar Rice Burroughs' posthumous editor. After assembling a couple of volumes of Burroughs' previously uncollected short stories and preparing several of his unpublished novels for release, I was asked by the owners of the company, Jack Biblo and Jack Tannen, to write a book about him. That was the genesis of Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure, my first book.
Lupoff began publishing fiction in 1967 with the novel One Million Centuries, followed by Sacred Locomotive Flies (1971) and Into the Aether (1974). He is credited with more than 50 books, plus short fiction, non-fiction and memoirs. He sometimes wrote under pseudonyms, notably Ova Hamlet, a name he frequently used for parodies.
Among his most famous novels are the duology Circumpolar! (1984) and Circumsolar! (1985). His short fiction, which has often been collected and anthologized, includes the story "With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama" and "12:01 PM." Originally in the December, 1973, issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, "12:01 PM" was adapted into both the Oscar-nominated short film 12:01 PM (1990) and the TV movie 12:01 (1993). His novelette "After the Dreamtime" and his short story "Sail the Tide of Mourning" received Hugo Award nominations in 1975-76.
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[edit] Notes
- Learned how to interweave plots and subplots to maintain suspense from books on writing by Jack Woodford.
[edit] Series
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1978)
- That Man On Beta (1979)
- Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon
- 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! (1987)
[edit] 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)
- What If (1980)
- 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
- The Cover Girl Killer (1995)
- Claremont Tales (2001)
[edit] Non-fiction
- Master Of Adventure: The Worlds Of Edgar Rice Burroughs (1965, reprinted in Bison Frontiers of Imagination Series in 2005)
