Today we celebrate the birthday of award winning science-fiction author Michael Shea (13 July, 1943 – ???). Mr. Shea (website) has won “year’s best” World Fantasy Awards for his novel Nifft the Lean and Growlimb, a novella.
1 ) Michael Shea hitchhiked twice across the USA
2 ) A Quest fo Simbilis is Vance’s homage, and an authorized sequel, to Jack Vance’s The Eyes of the Overworld which he found in a hotel in Juneau, AK.
3 ) Jack Vance declined to share the advance offered by DAW Books.
4 ) Some of the jobs Mr. Shea had before and after publication were: painting houses, teaching ESL,, construction and night clerk.
5 ) Mr. Shea married Lynn Cesar, author and artist. They have two children, a boy and a girl.
6 ) Michael Shea’s book Nifft the Lean is a collection of four linked stories.
7 ) The Color out of Time is an homage to H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour out of Space.
8 ) Reviewing The Incomplete Niff, writer Elizabeth Hand said that she “must create a new category for this beautiful, terrifying work, part sword-and-sorcery, part season in hell. Call it Shea generis.”
9 ) Shea’s work crosses science fiction and fantasy.
10) Nifft in The Mines of Behemoth was published in installments a year before it was published as a book in Tomorrow Speculative Fiction.
Zohar – Man of la Book
