Richard A Lupoff
 Richard
A Lupoff (born on February 21, 1935) is a science fiction and mystery
author. In addition to his two dozen novels and more than 40 short stories, he
has also edited science-fantasy anthologies. He is an expert on the writing of
Edgar Rice Burroughs and has an interest in
H. P. Lovecraft. Before becoming a
full-time writer in 1970 he worked in the computer industry.
As a writer, his work is best known for pastiche and recursiveness: "pastiche"
in that much of his work involves writing stories that play with styles or even
universes created by other writers; "recursiveness" meaning that his work often
includes other authors or friends as characters.
Richard A Lupoff's genre career began in science fiction fandom in which as a long-time
participant he worked on a number of fanzines, notably Xero, which he edited
with his wife Pat and Bhob Stewart. It received the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
in 1963. The roster of contributors included such names as Dan Adkins,
James Blish,
Lin Carter,
Avram Davidson,
L. Sprague de Camp, Roger Ebert (then 17
years of age), Harlan Ellison, Ed Gorman, Eddie Jones, Roy G. Krenkel,
Frederik
Pohl and Bob Tucker. In 2004, a hardcover anthology, The Best of Xero, coedited
with Pat Lupoff and featuring a nostalgic introduction by Ebert, was published
by Tachyon Publications. It was in turn nominated for the Hugo Award.
Richard A Lupoff also wrote reviews for the fanzine Algol, and he was an editor
of Edgar Rice Burroughs for Canaveral Press. In a memoir for Omni, he recalled
the chain of events that led him to write his 1965 biography of Burroughs
(reprinted in 2005 by the University of Nebraska Press' Bison Books):
In 1963, I was working for IBM in the Time/Life Building at 50th Street and
Sixth Avenue. Pat and I had long since moved to Manhattan and had a wonderful
apartment on East 73rd Street. I had a second job, moonlighting as an editor
for Canaveral Press at 63 Fourth Avenue. Working for Canaveral, I found myself
acting as Edgar Rice Burroughs' posthumous editor. After assembling a couple
of volumes of Burroughs' previously uncollected short stories and preparing
several of his unpublished novels for release, I was asked by the owners of
the company, Jack Biblo and Jack Tannen, to write a book about him. That was
the genesis of Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure, my first
book.
Richard A Lupoff began publishing fiction in 1967 with the novel One Million
Centuries, followed by Sacred Locomotive Flies (1971) and Into the
Aether (1974). He is credited with more than 50 books, plus short fiction,
non-fiction and memoirs. He sometimes wrote under pseudonyms, notably Ova
Hamlet, a name he frequently used for parodies.
Among Richard A Lupoff's most famous novels are the duology Circumpolar! (1984) and
Circumsolar! (1985). His short fiction, which has often been collected
and anthologized, includes the story "With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old
New Alabama" and "12:01 PM." Originally in the December, 1973, issue of The
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, "12:01 PM" was adapted into both
the Oscar-nominated short film 12:01 PM (1990) and the TV movie 12:01
(1993). His novelette "After the Dreamtime" and his short story "Sail the Tide
of Mourning" received Hugo Award nominations in 1975-76.
Selected Bibliography
Series
- Buck Rogers Universe
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- 1 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1978) [as by
Addison E. Steele ]
- 2 That Man On Beta (1979) [as by Addison E.
Steele ]
- Daniel M. Pinkwater's Melvinge of the Megaverse
- 3 Night of the Living 'Gator! (1992)
- Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon
- 1 The Black Tower (1988)
- 6 The Final Battle (1990)
- Sun's End
- 1 Sun's End (1984)
- 1 Galaxy's End (1988)
- Twin Planets
- 1 Circumpolar! (1984)
- 2 Countersolar! (1987)
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