| BRUCE BOSTON Speculative Fiction & Poetry |
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Autobiographical Note
I was born of Catholic and Jewish heritage in Chicago in 1943. I
grew up in Southern California in an era of rock and roll, the Cold
War, and the Space Race. From 1961-2001, I lived in the San
Francisco Bay Area, attending and graduating from the University
of California, Berkeley, while active in the psychedelia and
political protests of the 1960s.
I've worked in a variety of occupations, including computer
programmer, college professor, technical writer, book designer,
movie projectionist, gardener, and furniture mover. I now live in
Ocala, Florida, with my wife, writer-artist Marge Simon. In
addition to our solo work, Marge and I have collaborated on
poetry and short fiction.
My work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including
Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, Strange
Horizons, Weird Tales, The Pedestal Magazine, Year's Best Fantasy
& Horror, and the Nebula Awards Showcase, and received a
number of awards, most notably the Pushcart Prize, the Asimov's
Readers' Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Rhysling Award,
and the Grandmaster Award of the Science Fiction Poetry
Association. I hold the distinctions of having appeared in more
issues of Asimov's SF, and Strange Horizons, than any other
author, and of coining the word "cybertext."
My work stretches from broad humor to literary surrealism, with
many stops along the way for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and
noir. I've published forty-five books and chapbooks, including the
novels The Guardener's Tale and Stained Glass Rain. My best
stories are collected in Masque of Dreams, my best poetry in
Sensuous Debris, Pitchblende, and Shades Fantastic.
For my thoughts on speculative poetry and writing, see John
Amen's interview with me at The Pedestal Magazine and JoSelle
Vanderhooft's interview with me at Strange Horizons. Also, my
article "The Failure of Genre Poetry" at The Fortean Bureau.
For a retrospective essay on my poetry, see Gary William
Crawford's "Songs of the Stars" from Calenture.
For detailed biographical information through 1998, see my essay
"Fifteen Explanations in Search of a Life" in Contemporary
Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 30, Gale Research, available
at many libraries.
I was born of Catholic and Jewish heritage in Chicago in 1943. I
grew up in Southern California in an era of rock and roll, the Cold
War, and the Space Race. From 1961-2001, I lived in the San
Francisco Bay Area, attending and graduating from the University
of California, Berkeley, while active in the psychedelia and
political protests of the 1960s.
I've worked in a variety of occupations, including computer
programmer, college professor, technical writer, book designer,
movie projectionist, gardener, and furniture mover. I now live in
Ocala, Florida, with my wife, writer-artist Marge Simon. In
addition to our solo work, Marge and I have collaborated on
poetry and short fiction.
My work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including
Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, Strange
Horizons, Weird Tales, The Pedestal Magazine, Year's Best Fantasy
& Horror, and the Nebula Awards Showcase, and received a
number of awards, most notably the Pushcart Prize, the Asimov's
Readers' Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Rhysling Award,
and the Grandmaster Award of the Science Fiction Poetry
Association. I hold the distinctions of having appeared in more
issues of Asimov's SF, and Strange Horizons, than any other
author, and of coining the word "cybertext."
My work stretches from broad humor to literary surrealism, with
many stops along the way for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and
noir. I've published forty-five books and chapbooks, including the
novels The Guardener's Tale and Stained Glass Rain. My best
stories are collected in Masque of Dreams, my best poetry in
Sensuous Debris, Pitchblende, and Shades Fantastic.
For my thoughts on speculative poetry and writing, see John
Amen's interview with me at The Pedestal Magazine and JoSelle
Vanderhooft's interview with me at Strange Horizons. Also, my
article "The Failure of Genre Poetry" at The Fortean Bureau.
For a retrospective essay on my poetry, see Gary William
Crawford's "Songs of the Stars" from Calenture.
For detailed biographical information through 1998, see my essay
"Fifteen Explanations in Search of a Life" in Contemporary
Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 30, Gale Research, available
at many libraries.
| New & Recent "Beat People" poem in Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia "Recording Ancient Truths" at The Pedestal Magazine prose poem/flash "Striker Out" at Sniplits SF noir parody "Complete Artistic Control" humorous sf flash at Wily Writers print or audio 2010 Balticon Poetry Award "The Veracity of Imagination" "Lizards and Wind" poem at Strange Horizons "The Short Hello" humor at Dog Oil after Raymond Chandler "Phase Transition" Paper Crow speculative poem after Andrew Joron Cover Graphic Scifaikuest "Birth of a Planet" "Wasp Light" The Anthology of Dark Wisdom surreal story collaboration with Lee Ballentine "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Vulture" poem after Wallace Stevens at Farrago's Wainscot "By the Dawn's Early Light" speculative fiction at Atomjack |
| Recent Books Dark Matters New Poetry Collection from Bad Moon Books Sample Poems and Illustrations Video Trailer at YouTube Best-Of Fiction Collection Masque of Dreams trade paper edition from Wildside Press Request review copy North Left of Earth sf/speculative poetry collection from Sam's Dot Publishing Double Visions collaborative poetry collection from Dark Regions Press The Nightmare Collection Poetry Dark, Satiric, Surreal Sample Poems and Illustrations Bram Stoker Award Winner Novel The Guardener's Tale, from Sam's Dot Publishing Bram Stoker Award Finalist Prometheus Award Nominee Spanish edition of The Guardener's Tale from La Factoria de Ideas as El Guardian de Almas Flash Fiction Collection: Flashing the Dark from Sam's Dot Publishing |
