Tom Reamy
 Tom Reamy
(1935-1977) was an award-winning American science fiction and
fantasy author and important figure in science fiction fandom. Tom Reamy died
prior to the publication of his first novel. His works are primarily dark
fantasy.
Reamy was born in 1935. During the mid to late-1960s he was active in the
science fiction fanzine and convention culture. He was publisher of the fanzines
Trumpet and Nickelodeon and was head of MidAmeriCon’s publication division,
exerting a strong editorial influence, and also head of the Film Program
department of that organization. He was also one of the founders of the Turkey
City Writer's Workshop.
Tom Reamy’s only novel, Blind Voices has earned critical comparisons with the
works of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, and Harlan Ellison. The novel deals
with the arrival of a strange and wonderful “freak show” at a rural town in
Kansas during the 1920s and its effects on the lives of the residents. While not
as polished as those authors’ works, critics have regarded Blind Voices as an
exceptional first novel, causing fans and critics to ponder how important a
figure he could have become.
Reamy died of a heart attack in 1977 while working at his typewriter on stories
for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. At the time of his death, Reamy
and artist George Barr were working on a graphic novel version of Poul
Anderson’s The Broken Sword. The project languished after his untimely death.
Selected Bibliography
Complete
Bibliography
Novels
- Blind Voices (1978)
- San Diego Lightfoot Sue and Other Stories (1983)
Collections
- San Diego Lightfoot Sue (1979)
- San Diego Lightfoot Sue and Other Stories (1979)
Shortfiction
- Twilla (1974)
- Beyond the Cleft (1974)
- San Diego Lightfoot Sue (1975)
- Under the Hollywood Sign (1975)
- Sting! (1975)
- Dinosaurs (1976)
- Mistress of Windraven (1976)
- The Sweetwater Factor (1976)
- In the Cleft (1976)
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