Jack Dann is a multiple award winning author who has written or
edited over 60 books, including the groundbreaking novels Junction,
Starhiker, The Man Who Melted, The Memory Cathedral -- which is an
international bestseller, the Civil War novel The Silent, and Bad
Medicine, which has been compared to the works of Jack Kerouac and
Hunter S. Thompson and called "the best road novel since the Easy
Rider days."
Dann's work has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl,
Lewis Carroll, Castaneda, J. G. Ballard, Mark Twain, and Philip K.
Dick. Philip K. Dick, author of the stories from which the films
Blade Runner and Total Recall were made, wrote that "Junction is
where Ursula Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven and Tony Boucher's 'The
Quest for Saint Aquin' meet...and yet it's an entirely new
novel.... I may very well be basing some of my future work on
Junction." Best-selling author Marion Zimmer Bradley called
Starhiker "a superb book... it will not give up all its delights,
all its perfections, on one reading."
Library Journal has called Dann "...a true poet who can create
pictures with a few perfect words." Roger Zelazny thought he was a
reality magician and Best Sellers has said that "Jack Dann is a
mind-warlock whose magicks will confound, disorient, shock, and
delight." The Washington Post Book World compared his novel The Man
Who Melted with Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal.
His short stories have appeared in Omni and Playboy and other major
magazines and anthologies. He is the editor of the anthology
Wandering Stars, one of the most acclaimed American anthologies of
the 1970's, and several other well-known anthologies such as More
Wandering Stars. Wandering Stars and More Wandering Stars have just
been reprinted in the U.S. Dann also edits the multi-volume Magic
Tales series with Gardner Dozois and is a consulting editor TOR
Books.
He is a recipient of the Nebula Award, the Australian Aurealis
Award (twice), the Ditmar Award (three times), the World Fantasy
Award, and the Premios Gilgam�s de Narrativa Fantastica award. Dann
has also been honoured by the Mark Twain Society (Esteemed
Knight).
High Steel, a novel co-authored with Jack C. Haldeman II, was
published in 1993. Critic John Clute called it "a predator...a cat
with blazing eyes gorging on the good meat of genre. It is most
highly recommended." A sequel entitled Ghost Dance is in
progress.
Dann's major historical novel about Leonardo da Vinci -- entitled
The Memory Cathedral -- was first published in December 1995 to
rave reviews. It has been published in 10 languages to date. It won
the Australian Aurealis Award in 1997, was #1 on The Age bestseller
list, and a story based on the novel was awarded the Nebula Award.
The Memory Cathedral was also shortlisted for the Audio Book of the
Year, which was part of the 1998 Braille & Talking Book Library
Awards.
Morgan Llwelyn called The Memory Cathedral "a book to cherish, a
validation of the novelist's art and fully worthy of its
extraordinary subject." The San Francisco Chronicle called it "a
grand accomplishment," Kirkus Reviews thought it was "An impressive
accomplishment," and True Review said, "Read this important novel,
be challenged by it; you literally haven't seen anything like
it."
Dann's next novel The Silent was chosen by Library Journal as one
of their 'Hot Picks.' Library Journal wrote: "This is narrative
storytelling at its best -- so highly charged emotionally as to
constitute a kind of poetry from hell. Most emphatically
recommended." Auhor Peter Straub said, "This tale of America's
greatest trauma is full of mystery, wonder, and the kind of
narrative inventiveness that makes other novelists want to hide
under the bed." And The Australian called it "an extraordinary
achievement."
His contemporary road novel Bad Medicine (titled Counting Coup in
the U.S.) has been called "a vivid and compelling vision-quest
through the dark back roads and blue highways of the American
soul."
Dann is also the co-editor (with Janeen Webb) of the groundbreaking
Australian anthology Dreaming Down-Under, which Peter Goldsworthy
has called "the biggest, boldest, most controversial collection of
original fiction ever published in Australia." It has won
Australia's Ditmar Award and is the first Australian book ever to
win the prestigious World Fantasy Award.
Dann is also the author of the retrospective short story collection
Jubilee: the Essential Jack Dann. The West Australian said it was
"Sometimes frightening, sometimes funny, erudite, inventive,
beautifully written and always intriguing. Jubilee is a celebration
of the talent of a remarkable storyteller."
As part of its Bibliographies of Modern Authors Series, The Borgo
Press has published an annotated bibliography and guide entitled
The Work of Jack Dann. An updated second edition is in progress.
Dann is also listed in Contemporary Authors and the Contemporary
Authors Autobiography Series; The International Authors and Writers
Who's Who; Personalities of America; Men of Achievement; Who's Who
in Writers, Editors, and Poets, United States and Canada;
Dictionary of International Biography; the Directory of
Distinguished Americans; Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century;
and Who's Who in the World.
Dann commutes between Melbourne and a farm overlooking the sea. He
also 'commutes' back and forth to Los Angeles and New York.
"[A] collection of the eerie and fantastic." -- Washington Post"Devotees of M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood will relish this superior anthology of original stories.... It seems almost unfair to single out individual works when all 18 are superb and will be cherished by steampunk and horror fans alike." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)Seventeen all-new tales emulating, or re-creating, the ambience of classic Victorian supernatural suspense....impressive work....more than a mere exercise in nostalgia." -- Kirkus ReviewsGhosts By Gaslight is a triumph of a themed anthology. Among the hundred or so books I have read this year, this one is my favorite. Acquire it at all costs. Highly recommended. -- Cemetery Dance Magazine
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