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  Mike Resnick - Biographical Information
Mike Resnick was born on March 5, 1942, and did very little of note for the next 15 years.
Mike and Carol discovered science fiction fandom in 1962, attended their first worldcon in 1963, and 71 sf books into his career, Mike still considers himself a fan, and frequently contributes articles to fanzines.
Mike was never interested in writing short stories early in his career, producing only 7 between 1976 and 1986.
www.main.org /fact/dillo/bio/resnick.html   (823 words)

  
 Mike Resnick | Interviews | SCI FI Weekly
Resnick: Yeah, I think probably the best novel I ever did was called Paradise, and whenever I see myself written up they're always talking about Santiago or Ivory or "Kirinyaga." I think Paradise was the best of them all, if only because it was a totally new approach nobody had done before.
Resnick: That has also surprised me. I just found out from Fictionwise I was their runner-up author of the year this year to Lois Bujold.
Resnick: Yeah, but it's more than the fact that now there are media fans and there are costume fans, and there are this fans and that fans, and they don't talk to each other.
www.scifi.com /sfw/interviews/sfw9422.html   (6746 words)

  
 Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick, a science fiction book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Resnick's experiences in Africa form the basis for this epic tale of a leader of the Kikuyu people who leads his followers away from a polluted, overpopulated Kenya to the planet Kirinyaga, which in many ways resembles the Africa of his ancestors.
Mike Resnick's Kirinyaga explores some of the problems of such a retreat into an idealized past.
Resnick intends Koriba’s inflexibility to be his fatal flaw, but I suspect Resnick also would like the reader to feel a lot more sympathy for Koriba and his goal than I can muster.
members.aol.com /tirfell/resnick.htm   (1152 words)

  
 Mike Resnick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Diamond Resnick (born Chicago, March 5, 1942), far better known as Mike Resnick, is a popular and prolific science fiction author.
His daughter, Laura Resnick, is also an award-winning and very popular science fiction and fantasy author.
Resnick's books in this vein bear some resemblance to Westerns, but are clearly science fiction.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Resnick   (2534 words)

  
 SF Literature Forum Guest
Mike and Carol discovered science fiction fandom in 1962, attended their first worldcon in 1963, and 72 sf books into his career, Mike still considers himself a fan and frequently contributes articles to fanzines.
Mike's first novel in this "second career" was The Soul Eater, which was followed shortly by Birthright: The Book of Man, Walpurgis III, the 4-book Tales of the Galactic Midway series, The Branch, the 4-book Tales of the Velvet Comet series, and Adventures, all from Signet.
Mike edited the Library of African Adventure series for St. Martin's Press, and is currently editing The Resnick Library of African Adventure, The Resnick Library of Worldwide Adventure, and (with Carol as co-editor) The Resnick Library of Travelers' Tales for Alexander Books.
www.sflit.com /archives/g-resnick.html   (912 words)

  
 Mike Resnick's The Return of Santiago. The Eternal Night Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Web Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In sheer amazement, he spends the next few days absorbing the material, learning of a rich history in the vast universe that he knew little of...and deciding that the time had come--the Universe was finally ready for the return of Santiago...
Resnick fills these novels with tons of colorful characters, people with histories immortalized by Black Orpheus and, later, by The Rhymer in their various stanzas.
Mike Resnick has written a book that is the equal of the first.
www.eternalnight.co.uk /books/r/resnickmike/returnofsantiago.html   (1343 words)

  
 PARADISE
Mike Resnick bridges the gap and is able to write an engrossing tale which is wrought with meaning.
Resnick's style and storytelling ability put you in the bush, chasing a wounded thunderhead shot by a rich man's spoiled son.
Resnick presents a tale and then lets the reader come to his or her own viewpoint.
www.science-fiction-review.com /paradise.htm   (925 words)

  
 Rambles: Mike Resnick, Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future
Resnick has done a dazzling job of myth building using as a framework that poem that has worked its way from classical literature to network television (Star Trek, anyone?) and the title of which has come to describe an entire genre of its own.
And this is truly an odyssey, not only across space, but through the mind of a man who has a goal -- clear-cut, definite, profitable and admirable -- that changes as he draws closer, and he changes as his goal does.
And then someone like Mike Resnick comes along and builds a story before our eyes, a story that is wide and deep and sometimes a little scary, and we start to understand how myths are made.
www.rambles.net /resnick_santiago86.html   (533 words)

  
 Mike Resnick's Homepage
Mike recently sold a six-novella original anthology, called ALIEN CRIMES, to the Science Fiction Book Club, to be delivered this October and published in 2007.
Mike is no longer science fiction editor at BenBella, but they will still be working together on future anthology projects.
Mike and Joe Siclari are editing an anthology of Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches.
www.mikeresnick.com   (736 words)

  
 Mike Resnick: Widowmaker Reborn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Like nearly all the characters who populate Resnick's Inner Frontier, the Widowmaker is extremel competent and sel-centered with an arrogance bred of the ability to back up his claims.
It is a reasonably safe bet that the original Widowmaker would feel similarly about his clones as they feel about himself, but Resnick will add yet another dimension to his study of individuality and identity to the series with such a meeting.
Widowmaker Reborn is written in Resnick's transparent style which allows the reader to enjoy the story even while Resnick is preaching his morality play.
www.sfsite.com /~silverag/resnick2.html   (406 words)

  
 SF REVIEWS.NET: Starship: Mutiny / Mike Resnick
Because Resnick, a quintessential old pro, is so skilled at delivering whip-smart, fast-paced pure entertainment that he could tell tales like this in his sleep and achieve more fun and enjoyable results than any ten SF writers who sweat blood into the effort.
With about fifty books to his résumé and enough awards to sink a frigate, Resnick whips up a cast of likable and memorable heroes with such ease that half the aspiring writers who read him will be slack-jawed with awe, with the other half jealously planning his violent death.
But with his infectious devotion to the kinds of SF "they just don't make like they used to," that so many of us grew up with, Mike Resnick proves that while you might not be able to teach an old dog many new tricks, the old tricks still kick plenty of ass.
www.sfreviews.net /starship_mutiny.html   (581 words)

  
 SF Signal: REVIEW: Down These Dark Spaceways edited by Mike Resnick
The goal set by Resnick was to avoid "cozy mysteries" like Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and deliver the hardboiled mystery in the vein of Dashiell Hammet or Raymond Chandler.
Resnick does a nice job at capturing the hard-boiled flavor of the detective novel, enough to elicit admiration from this reader and bring the story high marks.
Ethical and moral issues arise as one considers whether Mike should save the first victim thus potentially preventing himself from ever fulfilling his contract of finding Jeremy, who is the third victim.
www.sfsignal.com /archives/003897.html   (2081 words)

  
 Mike Resnick
Michael Diamond Resnick (born March 5, 1942), better known as Mike Resnick, is a popular and prolific science fiction author.
His daughter, Laura Resnick, is also a science fiction author.
Resnick is also interested in the formation of history and legend, and sometimes includes bards as characters.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Mike_Resnick.php   (387 words)

  
 Articles: Interview: Mike Resnick, by Lynne Jamneck
ike Resnick is the author of more than 40 science fiction novels, 150 stories, 10 story collections, and 2 screenplays, as well as the editor of more than 35 anthologies.
He is currently the science fiction editor for BenBella Books, and edits the Resnick Library of African Adventure and the Resnick Library of Worldwide Adventure for Alexander Books.
Mike Resnick: Santiago, if you want the public's taste, or Kirinyaga, if you want the critic's taste.
www.strangehorizons.com /2004/20040517/resnick.shtml   (2951 words)

  
 Review: Mike Resnick's The Return of Santiago, reviewed by John Teehan
All they require to regain that needed breath of life is someone to tell their story, and that's what Mike Resnick and small-time thief Danny Briggs do.
Resnick has created a colorful, living universe which he has successfully used many times before in such books as Birthright: The Book of Man, The Widowmaker, Oracle, and The Outpost.
In either case, Mike Resnick succeeds in telling a ripping good yarn while bringing legends to life, and hope to the Inner Frontier.
www.strangehorizons.com /2003/20030721/santiago.shtml   (1169 words)

  
 PYR | New Dreams for Old
New Dreams for Old is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by Mike Resnick, showing the depth and range that has not only made him a popular seller, but also placed him fourth (and climbing) on the all-time award list of all science fiction writers living and dead (as compiled by Locus).
“Mike Resnick is the John Varley of the 2000s — the genre’s best short story writer....
Mike Resnick has won an impressive five Hugos and been nominated for twenty-three more.
www.pyrsf.com /newdreams.html   (657 words)

  
 PYR | Starship: Mutiny
“Mike Resnick is the king of intelligent space opera adventure.
“Prolific sf author Resnick (Kirinyaga; A Hunger in the Soul) launches a new series of military sf adventure with a solid introductory tale of one man's faith in himself and the loyalty of his comrades.
The real delight to reading this novel is the banter and jokes in the conversations between Cole and the crewmates he does get on with, the insults and sarcastic comments with those he doesn't get on with, and the real feeling of camaraderie and society it creates.
www.pyrsf.com /starshipmutiny.html   (760 words)

  
 Resnick,Mike Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Resnick, a self-professed friend of Nicole Brown Simpson, dishes all the juicy details of Nicole's life.
Set in the same world as Resnick's Santiago novels, this first novel in a new trilogy introduces Mouse, a hard-bitten, cynical woman and professional thief, who finds herself in deep trouble when her attempt to rescue a seemingly helpless little girl has potentially deadly consequences.
Resnick posed these and other alternate world questions to some of science fiction's most imaginative writers--Jack L. Chalker, David Gerrold, Pat Cadigan, Robert Scheckley, Resnick himself, and over 20...
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Resnick,Mike   (1246 words)

  
 Bowing to the Future: Mike Resnick's Bilsang: A contest of sorts....
Mike Resnick and I are running a contest of sorts.
Mike has just delivered the manuscript for his upcoming novel, Starship: Pirate, book two of his five book military space opera that began with Starship: Mutiny.
Mike and I will review all entries, and, provided we find one we like, we'll run it as one of the appendices of Starship: Pirate.
www.louanders.com /2006/02/mike-resnicks-bilsang-contest-of-sorts.html   (1179 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Mike Resnick
Chapter 3 is written by Nancy Kress, author of "Beggars in Spain", the landmark genetic engineering story that was one of the most critically acclaimed SF novellas of the 1990s--it won the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and was the first Fictionwise eBook of the Year in 2000.
Resnick's sweeping novel is the first volume of a trilogy that traces the life of a girl who has an interesting form of precognition.
Resnick's sweeping novel is the second volume of a trilogy that traces the life of a girl who has an interesting form of precognition.
www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/MikeResnickeBooks.htm   (1601 words)

  
 Mike Resnick at Cybling!
This year Mike Resnick has been nominated for the Hugo for the short story "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" which was published in Asimov's, December 1997 issue.
A look at his bibliography, biography and selected stories on his home page show the quality and quantity of work that have made this man a consistant winner of awards and respected force in the SF field.
Mike, congratulations on your Hugo nomination for "43 Antarean Dynasties" and on winning the Asimov Readers award with that story.
www.cybling.com /artists/aresnick.html   (1813 words)

  
 Classic Bookshop interview - Mike Resnick
The following is an interview of Mike Resnick, author of Kirinyaga, by Dan Foster.
With his love of East Africa, and Kenya in particular, Resnick chose the Kikuyu tribe for his story, which was simply called Kirinyaga.
Resnick describes his experience with Hollywood and writing screenplays as fascinating.
www.classicbookshop.com /interviews/kirinyaga/index.shtml   (661 words)

  
 Starship: Mutiny by Mike Resnick - Official sffworld.com review
Mike Resnick is one of the most widely acclaimed writers in Speculative Fiction, with many awards and nominations on his resume.
In the slim volume; however, Resnick packs a lot of adrenaline, action and plot, which encompasses the wide swath of the galaxy.
Resnick, of course, brings a much more modern sensibility to the story, as well as more clear and refined writing, but the fun, adventure, and WOW-factor of the expansive universe sings of the page in both.
www.sffworld.com /brevoff/248.html   (702 words)

  
 Mike Resnick: The Widowmaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Although that might not sound like the highest praise, Resnick has an ability to tell a fantastic story and his stories of the Inner and Outer Frontiers are just as readable and fabulous (in the Aesopian context) as his stories of Kirinyaga.
Part of Resnick's future history's charm is Resnick's ability to throw out hints about great stories which he hasn't told, yet when those characters do play a role, they usually live up to the expectations Resnick created initially.
I would almost like to see a listing of all Resnick's characters with cross-references to stories in which they are mentioned and stories in which they play a role.
www.sfsite.com /~silverag/resnick.html   (427 words)

  
 Del Rey Online | Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick
Hailed for his grandeur of imagination and superb worldbuilding, winner of and nominee for more than fifty awards for his outstanding work, Mike Resnick has rightfully won a place as one of science fiction's master storytellers.
Deeply moving, swiftly paced, and profound in its implications, Kirinyaga is Mike Resnick's most triumphant work to date.
Mike Resnick's outstanding work has won numerous awards--including three Hugos and one Nebula--and has been nominated for dozens more.
www.randomhouse.com /delrey/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345417022   (565 words)

  
 Meisha Merlin Publications - Mike Resnick
Mike Resnick is currently 4th in the all-time standings, ahead of Isaac Asimov, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, and Robert A. Heinlein.
Mike and Carol discovered science fiction fandom in 1962, attended their first Worldcon in 1963, and 81 sf books into his career, Mike still considers himself a fan and frequently contributes articles to fanzines.
Mike edited the _Library of African Adventure_ series for St. Martin’s Press, and is currently editing _The Resnick Library of African Adventure_, and, with Carol as co-editor, _The Resnick Library of Worldwide Adventure_, for Alexander Books.
www.meishamerlin.com /MikeResnick.html   (1589 words)

  
 Mike Resnick's Explorations
Mike Resnick has been making his mark as a writer for over 30 years.
Yes, she is related to Mike, his daughter, but no there is no nepotism involved.
When you are done with it, you will either want to pack up and try it yourself or wonder how anyone could be so crazy to make the trip she did.
www.bright.net /~tomb/reviews/resnick.html   (511 words)

  
 Michael Resnick -- Available Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Besides the Kuttner stories, the 1960 Playboy article by William Knoles that sparked the interest of future editor Mike Resnick and the story science fiction legend Isaac Asimov was prompted to write in response are included.
As are the script that Mike's wife Carol adapted from one of the stories and Barry Malzberg's afterword that sheds a bit of additional light on the Asimov story.
But, as Mike Resnick writes in his introduction to this commemorative edition of Burroughs's immensely popular trilogy The Land That Time Forgot, first published in 1924, almost every book Burroughs wrote remains in print, and countless readers turn...
www.non.com /books/Resnick_Mike_ca.html   (1521 words)

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