American writer
Edward Bryant
Bryant in 2016
Born Edward Winslow Bryant Jr.(1945-08-27 ) August 27, 1945
White Plains, New York , United States Died February 10, 2017(2017-02-10) (aged 71)
Denver ,
Colorado , United StatesOccupation Writer Nationality American Alma mater
University of Wyoming Genre Notable works CINNABAR, PARTICLE THEORY
Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. (August 27, 1945 – February 10, 2017) was an American
science fiction and
horror writer sometimes associated with the
Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered
The New Wave . At the time of his death, he resided in North
Denver .
Life and work
Ed Bryant in 1989
Bryant was born in
White Plains, New York , but raised on a cattle ranch in
Wyoming . He attended school in
Wheatland, Wyoming , and received his MA in English from the
University of Wyoming in 1968.
During the 1950s his uncle, a rodeo star, encouraged his love of film. This perhaps ultimately led to his occasional work in
screenplays and as an actor. He was in the films The Laughing Dead (1988) and Ill Met by Moonlight (1994).
His writing career began in 1968 with his attendance at the
Clarion Workshop . At the beginning of his career he developed an association with
Harlan Ellison , which led to collaborative efforts such as the novel Phoenix Without Ashes , based on Ellison's pilot script for
The Starlost .
He won two
Nebula Awards for his short stories, "Stone" (1978) and "
giANTS " (1979). He was mostly known as a writer of
short fiction ; however, he also wrote poetry, nonfiction, reviews, criticism, and edited an e-zine. His short horror story "Dark Angel", which appeared in
Kirby McCauley 's
anthology
Dark Forces , featured modern-day
witch Angela Black. She reappears as the narrator of Bryant's short novel Fetish .
When Bryant moved to Denver in 1972, he founded the
Northern Colorado Writers Workshop , which continues today, and has produced a number of notable writers, including
Steve Rasnic Tem ,
Melanie Tem ,
John Dunning ,
Wil McCarthy ,
Bruce Holland Rogers ,
Dan Simmons , and
Connie Willis . Bryant was a senior editor of Wormhole Books.
[1] In addition, he facilitated a number of other writing workshops over the years for writers ranging in skill and experience from amateur to professional.
Edward Bryant served as
Toastmaster for
Denvention II , the 1981 Worldcon, as well as
World Fantasy Convention ,
[2]
ArmadilloCon ,
TusCon , and
Death Equinox . He also chaired (and otherwise was a special guest at) for multiple years at the
World Horror Convention [
citation needed ] .
Illness and death
Bryant (right ) with
George R. R. Martin (left ) in November 2016 at TusCon in Tucson, Arizona.
In 2010, various writers & editors including
Melanie Tem and
Ellen Datlow set up a Crowd-funding page to help Bryant deal with financial emergencies brought on by his ongoing fight against the effects of
Type 1 diabetes .
[3]
[4]
Bryant died at his home in Colorado on February 10, 2017, after a long illness. He was 71.
[5]
Works
Novels
Mosaic novels
Wild Cards series
Bantam Books #1. Wild Cards (1987). Story "Down Deep" (with
Leanne C. Harper )
Bantam Books #3. Jokers Wild (1987). Segments with the character "Sewer Jack"
Bantam Books #4. Aces Abroad (1988). Story "Down in the Dreamtime"
Bantam Books #5. Down and Dirty (1988). Story "The Second Coming of Buddy Holly"
Bantam Books #11. Dealer's Choice (1992). Segments with the character "Wyungare"
Short story collections
Among the Dead and Other Events Leading Up to the Apocalypse (1973). Contains 17 short stories:
"The Hanged Man" (1972)
"Shark"
"No. 2 Plain Tank Auxiliary Fill Structural Limit 17,605 lbs. Fuel-PWA Spec. 522 Revised" (1972)
"Adrift on the Freeway" (1970)
"Jody After the War" (1972)
"Teleidoscope"
"The Poet in the Hologram in the Middle of Prime Time" (1972)
"The Human Side of the Village Monster" (1971)
"Among the Dead" (1971)
"File on the Plague" (1971)
"The Soft Blue Bunny Rabbit Story" (1971)
"Tactics"
"Sending the Very Best" (1970)
"Their Thousandth Season" (1972)
"Love Song of Herself" (1971)
"Pinup"
"Dune's Edge" (1972)
Cinnabar (1976). Contains 8 short stories:
"The Road to Cinnabar" (1971)
"Jade Blue" (1971)
"Gray Matters", AKA "Their Thousandth Season" (1972)
"The Legend of Cougar Lou Landis" (1973)
"Hayes and the Heterogyne" (1974). Novelette
"Years Later"
"Sharking Down" (1975). Novelette
"Brain Terminal" (1975). Novelette
Wyoming Sun (1980). Contains 5 short stories:
"Prairie Sun"
"giANTS" (1979)
"Teeth Marks" (1979)
"Beyond the Sand River Range" (1972)
"Strata". Novelette
Particle Theory (1981). Contains 12 short stories:
"Particle Theory" (1977)
"The Thermals of August". Novelette
"Hayes and the Heterogyne" (1974). Novelette
"Teeth Marks" (1979)
"Winslow Crater" (1978). Poem
"Shark" (1973)
"Precession" (1980)
"Stone" (1978)
"Strata" (1980). Novelette
"The Hibakusha Gallery" (1977)
"giANTS" (1979)
"To See" (1980)
Neon Twilight (1990). Contains 3 short stories:
"Waiting in Crouched Halls" (1970)
"Pilots of the Twilight" (1984). Novelette
"Neon"
Darker Passions (1992). Contains 3 short stories:
"Doing Colfax" (1987)
"The Loneliest Number" (1990)
"Human Remains"
The Baku: Tales of the Nuclear Age (2001). Contains 3 short stories:
"The Baku" (1987). Novelette
"The Hibakusha Gallery" (1977)
"Jody After the War" (1972)
Trilobyte (2014). Contains 3 short stories:
"An Easter Treasure" (1987)
"Coon Dawgs" (1987)
"Drummer's Star" (1987)
Predators and Other Stories (2014). Contains 6 short stories:
"Predators" (1987)
"The Baku" (1987). Novelette
"Frat Rat Bash" (1987)
"Haunted" (1987)
"Buggage" (1987)
"Doing Colfax" (1987)
Short stories
Uncollected short stories.
"In the Silent World" (1970)
"They Only Come in Dreams" (1970)
"Eyes of Onyx" (1971)
"Her Lover's Name Was Death" (1971)
"The Lurker in the Locked Bedroom" (1971)
"Audition: Soon to Be a Major Production" (1972)
"Beside Still Waters" (1972, with James Sutherland)
"Darling, When You Hurt Me" (1972)
"Nova Morning" (1972, with Jody Harper)
"The 10:00 Report is Brought to You By ..." (1972)
"2.46593" (1973)
"Nightmare Syndrome" (1973)
"Paths" (1973)
"And Then He Died" (1974)
"Cowboys, Indians" (1974)
"Going West" (1974)
"Xenofreak/Xenophobe" (1975)
"Kicks Are For Kids" (1978)
"Dark Angel" (1980)
"We'll Have Such a Good Time, Lover" (1980)
"This Is the Way the World Ends, Soggily" (1981)
"Freezing to Death" (1982)
Angie Black series:
In the Shade (1982)
Armageddon Between Sets (1984)
Fetish (1991). Novelette
"Bean Bag Cats®" (1983)
"Dancing Chickens" (1984)
"Party Time" (1984)
"The Man of the Future" (1984)
"The Serrated Edge" (1984)
"The Man Who Always Wanted to Travel" (1985)
"The Overly Familiar" (1985)
"Presents of Mind" (1986, with
Connie Willis ,
Steve Rasnic Tem ,
Dan Simmons )
"The Transfer" (1986)
"Author's Notes" (1987)
"A Functional Proof of Immortality" (1988)
"Chrysalis" (1988)
"Skin and Blood" (1988)
"The Cutter" (1988)
"While She Was Out" (1988)
"A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned" (1989). Novelette
"Good Kids" (1989)
"Mod Dogs" (1989)
"'Saurus Wrecks" (1989)
"Dying Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard" (1990, with
Dan Simmons ). Novelette
"Slippage" (1990)
"Colder Than Hell" (1991)
"Country Mouse" (1991)
"Down Home" (1991)
"The Great Steam Bison of Cycad Center" (1991). Novelette
"Aqua Sancta" (1993)
"The Fire That Scours" (1994)
"Big Dogs, Strange Days" (1995)
"Calling the Lightning by Name" (1995)
"Flirting with Death" (1995)
"Raptured Up in Blue" (1995)
"Disillusion" (1996)
"Talkin' Trailer Trash" (1996)
"Ashes on Her Lips" (1998)
"Knock" (1998, AKA Ed Bryant)
"Styx and Bones" (1999)
"The Clock That Counts the Dead" (1999)
"The Flicker Man" (1999, with Trey Barker). Novelette
"The Shuttlecock" (1999). Novelette
"Mr. Twisted" (2000, AKA Ed Bryant)
"Everything Broken" (2003)
"Bad German" (2010)
"Marginal Hants" (2015)
"Bitten Off" (2017)
"War Stories" (unpublished). Novelette
Chapbooks
The Man of the Future (1990)
Fetish (1991)
The Cutter (1991)
The Thermals of August (1992)
Aqua Sancta (1993)
While She Was Out (2001)
Anthologies
2076: The American Tricentennial (1977, with Jo Ann Harper)
The Shadow on the Doorstep / Trilobyte (1987, with
James P. Blaylock )
See also
References
External links
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