Lawrence Watt-Evans

Lawrence Watt-Evans

Lawrence Watt-Evans (born 1954) is one of the pseudonyms of American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans (another pseudonym, used primarily for science fiction, is Nathan Archer). Born in Arlington, Massachusetts, as the fourth of six children, he made his first attempts at professional writing when he was eight.

After graduating from Bedford High School in Bedford, Massachusetts, he attended Princeton University but left without a degree. By the rules of Princeton, he could not re-apply for a year, during which he began to seriously try to sell his writing, but sold nothing significant until The Lure of the Basilisk in 1978 (published 1980), whereupon he began writing full time. Despite having sold a short story and several articles under his real name, he initially submitted his first novel under a pseudonym; it was the editor of that novel, Lester Del Rey, who first demanded he use his real name and then added the hyphen to create the name Lawrence Watt-Evans. Evans had insisted on including his middle name to avoid confusion with a contemporary non-fiction writer also named Lawrence Evans, and del Rey had then added the hyphen "to make it more distinctive".

Watt-Evans was president of the Horror Writers Association from 1994 to 1996, and has also served as Eastern Regional Director and treasurer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. From 1995 to 1997, he was half of a partnership known as Malicious Press (with screenwriter Terry Rossio), which published Deathrealm magazine, edited by Stephen Mark Rainey and he was the managing editor of the webzine Helix SF for its entire run of ten quarterly issues.

In April 2005, Watt-Evans announced that the first draft of his latest Ethshar novel, The Spriggan Mirror, would be made available online as a serial, using a modified version of the Street Performer Protocol. The draft has since been finished and was previously available in its entirety on one of Watt-Evans' websites.[1] However, a revised version has now been published commercially in both electronic and paper editions, so the free version has been removed. In 2007 he completed another novel, The Vondish Ambassador, in November 2008 he started writing Realms of Light (a sequel to Nightside City), in June 2010 he started The Final Calling another Ethshar novel, all using that same method.

Contents

Works

Fantasy

The Lords of Dûs series

  • The Lure of the Basilisk (1980)
  • The Seven Altars of Dûsarra (1981)
  • The Sword of Bheleu (1982)
  • The Book of Silence (1984)

The Worlds of Shadow series

The Obsidian Chronicles

The Legends of Ethshar series

  • The Misenchanted Sword (1985)
  • With a Single Spell (1987)
  • The Unwilling Warlord (1989)
  • The Blood of a Dragon (1991)
  • Taking Flight (1993)
  • The Spell of the Black Dagger (1993)
  • Night of Madness (2000)
  • Ithanalin's Restoration (2002)
  • The Spriggan Mirror (2006)
  • The Vondish Ambassador (2007)
  • The Unwelcome Warlock (2010)

The Annals of the Chosen trilogy

  • The Wizard Lord (2006)
  • The Ninth Talisman (2007)
  • The Summer Palace (2008)

Bound Lands

  • A Young Man Without Magic (2009)
  • Above His Proper Station (2010)

Other fantasy novels

  • The Rebirth of Wonder (1992)
  • Split Heirs (in collaboration with Esther Friesner) (1993)
  • Touched by the Gods (1997)

Science fiction

The War Surplus series

  • The Cyborg and the Sorcerers (1982)
  • The Wizard and the War Machine (1987)

Star Trek novels

  • Voyager: Ragnarok (as Nathan Archer) (1995)
  • Deep Space Nine: Valhalla (as Nathan Archer) (1995)

Carlisle Hsing

  • Nightside City (1989)
  • Realms of Light (2010)

Other science fiction novels

  • The Chromosomal Code (1984)
  • Shining Steel (1986)
  • Denner's Wreck (1988)
  • The Spartacus File (in collaboration with Carl Parlagreco) (2005)
  • Spider-Man: Goblin Moon (as Nathan Archer, with Kurt Busiek) (1999)
  • Mars Attacks: Martian Deathtrap (as Nathan Archer) (1996)
  • Predator:
    • Cold War (as Nathan Archer) (1997)
    • Concrete Jungle (as Nathan Archer) (1995)
  • How to Prosper During the Coming Zombie Apocalypse (as Nathan Archer) (2011)

Horror

  • The Nightmare People (1990)

Short stories

He has written more than a hundred short stories, including "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers", which won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1988.

Collections

  • Crosstime Traffic (short story collection) (1992)
  • Celestial Debris (2002)

Anthologies edited

  • Newer York (1991)

Literary Criticism

  • The Turtle Moves! (Discworld's Story Unauthorized) (2008) - Review of the comic fantasy series by Terry Pratchett.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Watt-Evans's next novel published under Street Performer Protocol". Boing Boing. 2005-05-11. http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/11/wattevanss_next_nove.html. Retrieved 2011-03-06. 

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