Richard Lupoff

Richard A. Lupoff (born 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.

A long-time participant in science fiction fandom, Lupoff, his wife Pat and Bhob Stewart edited the fanzine Xero, which 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 and Frederik Pohl and Bob Tucker. In 2004, a hardcover antholology, The Best of Xero, coedited with Pat Lupoff and featuring a nostalgic introduction by Roger Ebert, was published by Tachyon Publications in 2004 and was nominated for the Hugo Award. 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 After assembling a couple of volumes of Burroughs' previously uncollected short stories and preparing several of his unpublished novels for release, I was asked by the owners of the company, Jack Biblo and Jack Tannen, to write a book about him.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.

Lupoff began publishing fiction in 1967 with the novel One Million Centuries and went on to write several novels and short stories, often under pseudonyms, notably "Ova Hamlet," a name he frequently used for parody or satirical work.

Among his 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 a TV movie (1993) and an Oscar-nominated short film (1990) (see 12:01). His novelette "After the Dreamtime" and his short story "Sail the Tide of Mourning" received Hugo Award nominations in 1975-76.

Notes

* Learned how to interweave plots and subplots to maintain suspense from books on writing by Jack Woodford.

External links

*"Richard Lupoff at Shorter Length" by Claude Lalumière
*Bibliography on SciFan