William Tenn (1920–2010)
Auteur de Des Hommes et des monstres (Galaxie-bis)
A propos de l'auteur
William Tenn, the pseudonym of Philip Klass, was born in London, England on May 9, 1920. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York and served as a combat engineer in the United States Army during World War II. After leaving the Army, he worked as a technical editor with an Air Force radar and radio afficher plus laboratory and was employed by Bell Labs. He taught English and comparative literature at Penn State University for 24 years. He wrote academic articles, essays, one novel entitled Of Men and Monsters, and more than 60 short stories including Child's Play, Venus and the Seven Sexes, Down Among the Dead Men, The Liberation of Earth, Time in Advance, and On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi. He received the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1999. He died of congestive heart failure on February 7, 2010 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: By Laurie Mann.Lauriemann at en.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons
Séries
Œuvres de William Tenn
Here Comes Civilization: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume 2 (2001) 148 exemplaires
Brooklyn Project 6 exemplaires
Eastward Ho! [short fiction] 5 exemplaires
Will You Walk A Little Faster? 4 exemplaires
Discovery Of Morniel Mathaway 3 exemplaires
Mundos posibles 3 exemplaires
Generation Of Noah 3 exemplaires
Null-P [short story] 3 exemplaires
The Sickness [short story] 3 exemplaires
A Lamp for Medusa 2 exemplaires
Extraños en la tierra 2 exemplaires
The House Dutiful 2 exemplaires
Science-fiction Thinking Machines 2 exemplaires
On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi [novelette] 2 exemplaires
Down Among The Dead Men 2 exemplaires
Wednesday's Child 2 exemplaires
The Tenants 1 exemplaire
The Deserter [short story] 1 exemplaire
Los Invasores 1 exemplaire
Immodest Proposals - The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume I & Here Comes Civilization - The Complete… (2001) 1 exemplaire
Safe As Any Sap {short story} 1 exemplaire
A Man of Family 1 exemplaire
Il problema della servitu 1 exemplaire
Winthrop Was Stubborn 1 exemplaire
The Ghost Standard {short story} 1 exemplaire
Θεματική Ανθολογία Ε.Φ. 4. Ιστορίες με Τέρατα 1 exemplaire
Venus And The Seven Sexes 1 exemplaire
The Custodian 1 exemplaire
The Puzzle Of Priipiirii 1 exemplaire
La Tierra invadida 1 exemplaire
Consulate 1 exemplaire
The Ionian Cycle 1 exemplaire
The Human Angle [short story] 1 exemplaire
The Masculinist Revolt 1 exemplaire
My Mother Was A Witch 1 exemplaire
Outsiders Children of Wonder 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1974) — Contributeur — 292 exemplaires
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology (2009) — Contributeur — 130 exemplaires
Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1705) — Contributeur — 88 exemplaires
Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction - Fifth Series (1987) — Contributeur — 84 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1950s (1990) — Auteur — 70 exemplaires
A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 : The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1996) — Contributeur — 56 exemplaires
Out of This World Adventures, July 1950 — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Once and future tales; from the Magazine of fantasy and science fiction (1968) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Planet Stories 59, March 1953 — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Den ¤elektriske myre og andre science fiction-fortællinger (1984) — Auteur, quelques éditions — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Klass, Philip
- Autres noms
- Tenn, William
- Date de naissance
- 1920-05-09
- Date de décès
- 2010-02-07
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK (birth)
USA (naturalized) - Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK (birth)
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA - Professions
- combat engineer
professor
editor (technical)
novelist - Relations
- Klass, Fruma (spouse)
Klass, Perri (niece)
Klass, Morton (brother) - Organisations
- United States Army (WWII)
Bell Laboratories - Prix et distinctions
- SFWA Author Emeritus (1999)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 66
- Aussi par
- 103
- Membres
- 1,724
- Popularité
- #14,910
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 30
- ISBN
- 48
- Langues
- 5
- Favoris
- 7
Each story has an afterword by Tenn in which he explains what inspired it, how it was received, and what he thinks of it at the end of his career. He also provides the dates of composition and publication for each story—a practice that I wish more anthologists would adopt. “The Masculinist Revolt,” for example, was written in 1961, two years before Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, but not published until 1965. It describes a future in which men begin wearing codpieces as political symbols: “There are men people and women people—and what’s the difference anyway? They want something that does what the codpiece does, that tells them they are not people, they’re men!” Tenn says he lost an agent and friends of both sexes over the story—a woman called it a castration fantasy, and a man called it a manifesto. Tenn said the story was meant to be “gently but encompassingly satiric” in the manner of E. B. White. One editor at Playboy said he should expand the story into a novella for the magazine, but another editor sent the story back because he saw it as a satire aimed at the Playboy empire. Tenn concludes, “All right, maybe it’s not the stuff of immortality, but I still think it is pretty good and pretty funny.”
I would say the same for the entire collection.… (plus d'informations)