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Michael Diamond Resnick (born Chicago, March 5, 1942), far better known as Mike Resnick, is a popular and prolific science fiction author. The winner of 5 Hugo Awards plus other major awards in the USA, France, Japan, Spain, Croatia and Poland, he currently stands 4th on the Locus list of science fiction's all-time top award winners. He is also a long-time participant in science fiction fandom. Always in demand as a speaker, he has been the Guest of Honor at some 30 science fiction conventions, and Toastmaster at a dozen more. During his "starving-writer" and "starving-editor" days back in the 1960s and early 1970s, he wrote more than 200 "adult" novels under pseudonyms, edited seven tabloid newspapers, and edited a trio of men's magazines. He also produced a weekly column on horse racing for more than a decade, and for eleven years wrote a monthly column on purebred collies, which he and Carol (to whom he has been married since 1961) bred and exhibited with remarkable success. His daughter, Laura Resnick, is also an award-winning and very popular science fiction and fantasy author. Themes Two notable trends run through the majority of Resnick's science fiction work. The first is his love of fable and legend. Many of his stories read like legends, featuring larger-than-life characters with colorful names like "The Widowmaker", "Lucifer Jones", "The Forever Kid", and "Catastrophe Baker". Their adventures are often similarly legendary. Resnick is also interested in the formation of history and legend, and sometimes includes bards as characters. The book The Outpost deals most with these themes, as it includes a story told from multiple perspectives and a bard who openly intends to exaggerate and edit his accounts to make them more interesting. Resnick's books in this vein bear some resemblance to Westerns, but are clearly science fiction. The other main theme in Resnick's work is Africa - African history, African culture, colonialism and its aftermath, and traditionalism. He has visited Africa often, and draws on this experience. Some of his science fiction stories are allegories of African history and politics. Other stories are actually set in Africa or have African characters. If he has another distinguishing feature, it's that he loves humor and writes it frequently -- some 6 novels and 50 stories at last count. Even his most grim and serious stories have frequent unexpected bursts of humor in them. Since 1988 he has become almost as prolific an editor as a writer, with well over 40 anthologies to his credit. He has also sold screenplays based on his novels to Miramax and Capella, and usually has from 4 to 6 properties under option to Hollywood on any given day. His work has been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Dutch, Swedish, Romanian, Finnish, Castilian, Slovakian, Chinese, and Croatian. Selected bibliography The Birthright Universe Other SF Short Story Collections Fantasy Other Works Anthologies Edited Collections Edited Series Edited Library of African Adventure (St. Martin's Press) Resnick Library of African Adventure (Alexander Books) Resnick Library of Worldwide Adventure (Alexander Books) Selected Awards Hugo Award for "Kirinyaga" Hugo Award for "The Manamouki" Hugo Award for "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" Hugo Award for "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" Hugo Award for "Travels With My Cats" Nebula Award for "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" Homer Award for "The Manamouki" Homer Award for "Song of a Dry River" Homer Award for "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle" Homer Award for "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" Homer Award for "When the Old Gods Die" Homer Award for "Bibi" (co-authored with Susan Shwartz) Homer Award for Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia Homer Award for "Hothouse Flowers" Homer Award for "Hunting the Snark" Homer Award for "The Elephants on Neptune" Asimov's Poll for "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" Asimov's Poll for "Hunting the Snark" Asimov's Poll for "The Elephants on Neptune" Asimov's Poll for "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" Asimov's Poll for "Travels With My Cats" Skylark Award for Lifetime Achievement in Science Fiction Locus Award for "When the Old Gods Die" S.F. Chronicle Poll for "Kirinyaga" S.F. Chronicle Poll for "For I have Touched the Sky" S.F. Chronicle Poll for "Bully!" S.F. Chronicle Poll for "The Manamouki" S.F. Chronicle Poll for "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" S.F. Chronicle Poll for "Bibi" Alexander Award for "Winter Solstice" Golden Pagoda Award for "The Manamouki" American Dog Writers Award for "The Last Dog" American Dog Writers Award for "Blue" Ignotus Award (Spain) for "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" Ignotus Award (Spain) for "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" El Melocoton Mechanico Award (Spain) for "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" Xatafi-Cyberdark Award (Spain) for "For I Have Touched the Sky" Tour Eiffel Award (France) for The Dark Lady Prix Ozone Award (France) for "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" Prix Ozone Award (France) for "How I Wrote the New Testament, Brought Forth the Renaissance, and Birdied the 17th Hole at Pebble Beach" Hayakawa Award (Japan) for "For I Have Touched the Sky" Seuin-sho Award (Japan) for Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia Sfinks Award (Poland) for "For I Have Touched the Sky" Sfinks Award (Poland) for "When the Old Gods Die" Nowa Fantastyka Poll (Poland) for "Kirinyaga" Futura Poll (Croatia) for "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" Complete List of Hugo Nominations 1989 - "Kirinyaga" (winner) 1990 - "For I Have Touched the Sky" 1991 - "The Manamouki" (winner) 1991 - "Bully!" 1992 - "Winter Solstice" 1992 - "One Perfect Morning, With Jackals" 1993 - "The Lotus and the Spear" 1994 - Best Editor 1994 - "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle" 1995 - Best Editor 1995 - "Barnaby in Exile" 1995 - "A Little Knowledge" 1995 - "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" (winner) 1996 - "When the Old Gods Die" 1996 - "Bibi" (with Susan Shwartz) 1997 - "The Land of Nod" 1998 - "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" (winner) 2000 - "Hothouse Flowers" 2000 - "Hunting the Snark" 2001 - "The Elephants on Neptune" 2001 - "Redchapel" 2001 - Putting It Together 2002 - "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" 2002 - I Have This Nifty Idea... 2004 - "Robots Don't Cry" 2005 - "Travels With My Cats" (winner) 2005 - "A Princess of Earth" 2006 - "Down Memory Lane" Short Fiction (Stories, Novelettes, Novellas) "The Last Dog" "Blue" 4 "Isaac Intrepid" vignettes, in collaboration with Lou Tabakow) "Beachcomber" "Watching Marcia" "The Fallen Angel" "God and Mr. Slatterman" "Me and My Shadow" "Stalking the Unicorn with Gun and Camera" "Death is an Acquired Trait" "The Toymaker and the General" "Beibermann's Soul" "King of the Blue Planet" "The Crack in the Cosmic Egg" "The Inn of the Hairy Toad" "Kirinyaga" "Inquiry into the Auction of the U.S.A." "His Award-Winning Science Fiction Story" "Slice of Life" "For I Have Touched the Sky" "Neutral Ground" "Costigan's Wager" "Balance" "Bwana" "Was It Good for You, Too?" "Museum Piece" "How I Wrote the New Testament, Brought Forth the Renaissance, and Birdied the 17th Hole at Pebble Beach" "The Manamouki" "Origins" "The Nine Lives of Isaac Intrepid" "Frankie the Spook" "One Perfect Morning, With Jackals" "Bully!" "Posttime in Pink" "Pawns" "Malish" "Over There" "Song of a Dry River" "Winter Solstice" "A Little Night Music" "Monsters of the Midway" "Mrs. Hood Unloads" "The Bull Moose at Bay" "Classifieds" "Revolt of the Sugar Plum Fairies" "Trading Up" (collaboration with Barbara Delaplace) "Final Solution" "Editor Meacham and the Fate Worse Than Death" "The Light That Blinds, The Claws That Catch" "The Lotus and the Spear" "The Pale Thin God" "Lady in Waiting" "The B Team" "Every Man a God" (collaboration with Barry Malzberg) "Excerpt from the Diary of Dr. Morris Finklestein" "The Trials and Tribulations of Myron Blumberg, Dragon" "The Blue-Nosed Reindeer" "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle" "Stop Press" "Ghosts" (collaboration with Barry Malzberg) "Stanley the Eighteen-Percenter" "The Summer of My Discontent" "Super Acorns" (collaboration with Lawrence Schimel) "The Tarnished Diamond" "Birdie" (collaboration with N. DiChario) "Barnaby in Exile" "A Little Knowledge" "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" "Alien Radio"(collab. with N. DiChario) "Pleasantly Pink" (collaboration with DiChario) "The Adventure of the Pearly Gates" "Working Stiff" (collaboration with Nicholas DiChario) "The Kemosabee" "My Girl" "The Most Beautiful Girl Alive" (collaboration with N. DiChario) "Metamorphosis" "Squonking" (collaboration with N. DiChario) "Genesis: The Rejected Canon" "The Sweet Sad Love Song of Fred and Wilma"(collaboration with Nicholas DiChario) "How Jerry Phipps Won His Hugo" "The Shiksa" (collaboration with Lawrence Schimel) "disIllusions" (collaboration with Lawrence Schimel) "When the Old Gods Die" "The Land of Nod" "Darker Than You Wrote" "Merdinus" (collaboration with Linda Dunn) "Mrs. Vamberry Takes A Trip" "The Joy of Hats"(collaboration with Nick Dichario) "The Starving Children on Mars" (collaboration with Louise Rowder) "The Roosevelt Dispatches" "Bibi"(collaboration with Susan Shwartz) "Card Shark" "The Gefilte Fish Girl" "My Brother's Keeper"(collaboration with Jack Nimersheim) "Hearts of Stone" (collaboration with Lyn Nichols) "Redchapel" "Of Flame and Air" (collaboration with Josepha Sherman) "Sagittarius Rising" (collaboration with Ann Marston) "The Fighting 35th's Last Stand at the Delores Proud Apple Valley School for the Blind"(collaboration with Nick DiChario) "Fascinatin' Rhythm" (collaboration with DiChario) "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" "STAN" (collaboration with Ron Collins) "Me and Galahad" (collaboration with Adrienne Gormley) "Interview With the Almighty" "A Buzzard Named Rabinowitz" "Hothouse Flowers" "Why Martians are Attracted to Big-Breasted Women" "Hunting the Snark" "Full Circle" (collaboration with Kristine Kathryn Rusch) "Boot Hill" (collaboration with Catherine Asaro) "The Elephants on Neptune" "Even Butterflies Can Sting" "Ocean's Eleven" (collaboration with Tom Gerencer) "Nicobar Lane" "Redchapel" "Flower Children of Mars" (collaboration with M. Shayne Bell) "The Demons of Jupiter's Moons" (collaboration with Mark Stafford) "A Moment of Your Time" (collaboration with Dean Wesley Smith) "The Shackles of Freedom" (collaboration with Tobias S. Buckell) "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" "Like Father, Like Son"(collaboration with B.J. Galler-Smith) "Like Small Feet Following" (collaboration with Robyn Herrington) "The Chinese Sandman" "Approaching Sixty"(collaboration with Barry Malzberg) "Water-Skiing Down the Styx" collaboration with Janis Ian) "The Amorous Broom" "Here's Looking at You, Kid" "The Burning Spear at Twilight" "Robots Don't Cry" "Unsafe at Any Speed" "Dobchek, Lost in the Funhouse" (collaboration with Kay Kenyon) "Reflections in Black Granite" (collaboration with Michael A. Burstein) "Society's Goy" "Me" "Swimming Upstream in the Wells of the Desert" (collaboration with Susan R. Matthews) "Travels With My Cats" "Game Face" (collaboration with Robert Sheckley) "Keepsakes" "The Boy Who Cried 'Dragon!'" “A Princess of Earth” “A Muse With Burning Eyes” (collaboration with B. D. Faw) “El Presidente” “Cobbling Together a Solution” “Guardian Angel” “The One That Got Away” “Before the Beginning” (collaboration with Harry Turtledove) “The Island of Annoyed Souls” “Nowhere in Particular” “Down Memory Lane” “The God Biz” “The Hermit of the Skies” (colleboration with Paul Crilley) “Prevenge” (collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson) “Two Hunters in Manhattan” “Catastrophe Baker and the Cole Equations” “Harry, Larry, Barry & Frankie” “Occupational Hazard” “Great Unreported Breakthroughs “A Small Skirmish in the Culture War” (collaboration with James Patrick Kelly) “Solomon’s Choice” (collaboration with Nancy Kress) “Distant Replay” "Jellyfish" (collaboration with David Gerrold" "All the Things You Are" "The Big Guy" "Visitors' Night at Joey Chicago's" "Chartreuse Mansions" "A Locked-Planet Mystery" "The Long and Short of It" | |||||||
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