Alec Nevala-Lee

Alec Nevala-Lee
Born Castro Valley, California
Occupation Writer
Nationality American
Genre Science fiction, Thriller
Website
www.nevalalee.com

Alec Nevala-Lee is an American novelist and science fiction writer.

Biography

Nevala-Lee was born in Castro Valley, California, and graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in Classics.[1] His novels include The Icon Thief, City of Exiles, and Eternal Empire, all published by Penguin Books, and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Lightspeed Magazine, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction.[2] He is currently at work on the nonfiction book Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, which will be released by Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, in 2018.[3]

Work

Nevala-Lee’s debut novel, The Icon Thief, is a conspiracy thriller inspired by the work of artist Marcel Duchamp.[4] A sequel, City of Exiles, is partially based on the Dyatlov Pass incident.[5] On the science fiction side, Locus critic Rich Horton has called Nevala-Lee “one of [Analog editor Stanley Schmidt’s] best recent discoveries...One of Nevala-Lee’s idea engines is to present a situation which suggests a fantastical or science-fictional premise, and then to turn the idea on its head, not so much by debunking the central premise, or explaining it away in mundane terms, but by giving it a different, perhaps more scientifically rigorous, science-fictional explanation.”[6] Analog has referred to him as "a master of…tale[s] set in an atypical location, with science fiction that arrives from an unexpected direction.”[7]

Bibliography

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Novels

Short Fiction

Selected Nonfiction

Other Media

References

  1. ↑ "Alec Nevala-Lee". Penguin Random House.
  2. ↑ Nevala-Lee, Alec. "About me". Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  3. ↑ Lupo, Robyn. "Author Spotlight: Alec Nevala-Lee". Lightspeed Magazine.
  4. ↑ Lausch, Monica. (2016). "The Library as a Laboratory in the Search for New Perspectives: The Artist-Librarian Marcel Duchamp." Art and Book: Illustration and Innovation. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 33. "Duchamp's artworks have become intertextual signifiers....As icons they have extended themselves in book culture in recent fiction novels, including a thriller entitled The Icon Thief by Alec Nevala-Lee and the futuristic 2666 by Robert Bolaño."
  5. ↑ "City of Exiles". Publishers Weekly.
  6. ↑ Horton, Rich. (August 2013). "Locus Looks at Short Fiction." Locus Magazine.
  7. ↑ Quachri, Trevor (August 2013). "In Times to Come." Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
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