Avram Davidson

Avram Davidson
Data i miejsce urodzenia	23 kwietnia,1923 Nowy Jork
Data i miejsce śmierci	9 maja 1993
Narodowość	USA
Nagrody
Hugo, World Fantasy Award
Strona domowa

Avram Davidson (1923-1993) amerykański pisarz science fiction i kryminałów.

Wielkie mistrzostwo osiągnął w opowiadaniach. Zdobył Nagrodę Hugo i trzy razy Fantasy World Awards. Encyklopedia SF piszę o nim, ze był prawdopodobnie najbardziej literackim spośród wszystkich pisarzy SF.

W Polsce znany zaledwie z kilku opowiadań.

Doctor Eszterhazy

• The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy (1975) [zbiór opowiadań]
• The Ceaseless Stone (1975) [opowiadanie]
• The Old Woman Who Lived with a Bear (1975) [opowiadanie]
• Milord Sir Smiht, the English Wizard (1975) [opowiadanie]
• Polly Charms, the Sleeping Woman (1975) [opowiadanie]
• The Crown Jewels of Jerusalem (1975) [opowiadanie]
• The Case of the Mother-in-Law of Pearl (1975) [opowiadanie]
• The Church of Saint Satan and Pandaemons (1975) [opowiadanie]
• The King's Shadow Has No Limits (1975) [opowiadanie]
• Eszterhazy and the Autogondola-Invention (1983) [opowiadanie]
• Young Doctor Eszterhazy (1984) [opowiadanie] inny tytuł: Cornet Eszterhazy (1984)
• Duke Pasquale's Ring (1985) [opowiadanie]
• Writ in Water, or the Gingerbread Man (1985) [opowiadanie]
• The King Across the Mountains (1986) [opowiadanie]
• The Odd Old Bird (1988) [opowiadanie] - Dziwny ptaszek lub Osobliwy ptaszek Czarnoksiężnicy z Dziwacznego Grodu, Czarnoksiężnicy z Krainy Osobliwości
• The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy (1991) [zbiór opowiadań]

Jack Limekiller

• Bloody Man (1976) [opowiadanie]
• Manatee Gal Ain't You Coming Out Tonight (1977) [opowiadanie]
• A Good Night's Sleep (1978) [SF] inny tytuł: Sleep Well of Nights (1978)
• There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me (1980) [opowiadanie]
• Limekiller at Large (1990) [opowiadanie]
• A Far Countrie (1993) [opowiadanie]
• Limekiller! (2003) [zbiór opowiadań]

Kar-Chee

• 1 The Kar-Chee Reign (1966)
• 2 Rogue Dragon (1965)
• The Kar-Chee Reign / Rogue Dragon (1979) [omnibus]

Peregrine

• Peregrine: Primus (1971)
• Peregrine: Alflandia (1973) [opowiadanie]
• Peregrine: Perplexed (1980) [opowiadanie]
• Peregrine: Secundus (1981)

Vergil Magus

• 1 The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969)
• 2 Vergil in Averno (1987)
• 3 The Scarlet Fig; or Slowly through a Land of Stone (2005)
• The Other Magus (1980) [opowiadanie]
• Vergil and the Caged Bird (1987) [opowiadanie]
• Yellow Rome, or, Vergil and the Vestal Virgin (1992) [opowiadanie]
• Sea-Scene, or, Vergil and the Ox-Thrall (1993) [opowiadanie]
• Vergil and the Dukos: Hic Inclusus Vitam Perdit, or The Imitations of the King (1997) [opowiadanie]
• Vergil Magus: King Without Country (1998) [opowiadanie] z Michael Swanwick

Powieści

• Joyleg (1962) z Ward Moore
• Mutiny in Space (1964)
• Masters of the Maze (1965)
• Rork! (1965)
• Clash of Star-Kings (1966)
• The Enemy of My Enemy (1966)
• The Island Under the Earth (1969)
• Ursus of Ultima Thule (1973)
• Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty (1988) z Grania Davis

Zbiory opowiadań

• Or All the Seas with Oysters (1962)
• What Strange Stars and Skies (1965)
• Strange Seas and Shores (1971)
• The Redward Edward Papers (1978)
• The Best of Avram Davidson (1979)
• Avram Davidson: Collected Fantasies (1982)
• The Avram Davidson Treasury (1998)
• The Investigations of Avram Davidson (1999)
• Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven (2000)
• The Other Nineteenth Century (2001)

Omnibusy

• Danger from Vega / Clash of Star-Kings (1966) z John T. Phillifent
• Rocannon's World / The Kar-Chee Reign (1966) z Ursula K. Le Guin

Zredagowane antologie

• 12 The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Twelfth Series (1963)
• 13 The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Thirteenth Series (1964)
• 14 The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fourteenth Series (1965)
• Magic for Sale (1983)

Chapterbooks

• And Don't Forget the One Red Rose (1986)
• The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil (1998) z Grania Davis
• The Last Wizard (1999)
• El Vilvoy de las Islas (2000)
• The Beasts of the Elysian Fields (2001)

Nonfiction

• Crimes & Chaos (1962)
• Adventures in Unhistory (1993)

S==Serie opowiadań==

• Dr. Morris Goldpepper
  • Help! I Am Dr. Morris Goldpepper (1957)
  • Dr. Morris Goldpepper Returns (1962)

• The Redward Edward Papers
  • Partial Comfort (1978)
  • In Which the Lodge Is Tiled (1978)
  • Lemuria Revisited (1978)
  • The 13th Brumaire (1978)
  • I Weep, I Cry, I Glorify (1978)

Opowiadanie

• My Boy Friend's Name Is Jello (1954) - Mój chłopak zwie się Jello Droga do science fiction 4
• The Golem (1955) - Golem Złota Księga Fantasy
• The Ikon of Elijah (1956)
• King's Evil (1956)
• The Necessity of His Condition (1957)
• Summerland (1957)
• Mr. Stilwell's Stage (1957)
• Now Let Us Sleep (1957)
• Jury-Rig (1957)
• Negra Sum (1957)
• “Thou Still Unravished Bride” (1958)
• I Do Not Hear You, Sir (1958)
• The Bounty Hunter (1958)
• The Grantha Sighting (1958)
• Or All the Seas With Oysters (1958) - A wszystkie morza będą pełne ostryg... Isaac Asimov prezentuje najlepsze opowiadania science fiction
• Up the Close and Doun the Stair (1958)
• Great is Diana (1958)
• Paramount Ulj (1958)
• Or the Grasses Grow (1958)
• The Woman Who Thought She Could Read (1959)
• The Sensible Man (1959)
• The Dive People (1959)
• The Certificate (1959)
• Love Called This Thing (1959) z Laura Goforth
• The Montavarde Camera (1959)
• Take Wooden Indians (1959)
• No Fire Burns (1959)
• The Ogre (1959) inny tytuł: Ogre in the Vly (1959)
• Author, Author (1959)
• Dagon (1959)
• Aprés Nous (1960)
• The Tenant (1960)
• The Sixth Season (1960)
• Fair Trade (1960)
• Climacteric (1960)
• Yo-Ho, and Up (1960)
• The Cost of Kent Castwell (1961)
• The Affair at Lahore Cantonment (1961)
• The Sources of the Nile (1961)
• Dragon Skin Drum (1961)
• Where Do You Live, Queen Esther? (1961)
• The Teeth of Despair (1961) z Sidney Klein
• Something Rich and Strange (1961) z Randall Garrett
• The Kappa Nu Nexus (1961) z Morton Klass
• The Blaze of Noon (1961) z Randall Garrett
• Traveller from an Antique Land (1961)
• The Vat (1961)
• The Singular Events Which Occurred in the Hovel on the Alley Off of Eye Street (1962)
• The 63rd St. Station (1962)
• The Tail-Tied Kings (1962)
• Miss Buttermouth (1962)
• Faed-Out (1963)
• What Strange Stars and Skies (1963)
• Price of a Charm (1963) inny tytuł: The Lineaments of Gratified Desire (1963)
• A Quiet Room with a View (1964)
• Sacheverell (1964)
• The Cobblestones of Saratoga Street (1964)
• The Unknown Law (1964)
• Valentine's Planet (1964)
• The Goobers (1965)
• The Third Sacred Well of the Temple (1965)
• The House the Blakeneys Built (1965)
• Rogue Dragon (1965)
• The Invasion (1965)
• Mirror, Mirror (1965)
• Jack Be Nimble Jack Be Quick Jack Jump Over the Candlestick (1965)
• Up Christopher to Madness (1965) z Harlan Ellison
• A Bottle Full of Kismet (1966)
• The Phoenix and the Mirror (1966)
• Bumberboom (1966)
• Captain Pasharooney (1967)
• Basilisk (1967)
• Quick With His Hands (1967)
• The Power of Every Root (1967)
• The Importance of Trifles (1969)
• The Phoenix and the Mirror (Chapter 8) (1969)
• The Roads, the Roads, the Beautiful Roads (1969)
• Big Sam (1970)
• They Loved Me in Utica (1970)
• Goslin Day (1970)
• Timeserver (1970)
• Zon (1970)
• Pebble in Time (1970) z Cynthia Goldstone
• Selectra Six-Ten (1970)
• Rite of Spring (1970)
• The Lord of Central Park (1970)
• Arnten of Ultima Thule (1971)
• The Trefoil Company (1971)
• Basileikon: Summer (1971)
• The Man Who Saw the Elephant (1971)
• Summon the Watch! (1971)
• The Last Wizard (1972)
• Murder Is Murder (1973)
• And Don't Forget the One Red Rose (1975)
• Crazy Old Lady (1976)
• The Account of Mr. Ira Davidson (1976)
• Caravan to Illiel (1976)
• O Brave Old World! (1976)
• "Hark! Was That the Squeal of an Angry Thoat?" (1977)
• Naples (1978)
• Business Must Be Picking Up (1978)
• The New Zombies (1980) z Grania Davis
• The Ape (1981)
• Dr. Bhumbo Singh (1982)
• Mexican Merry-Go-Round (1982)
• Buchanan's Head (1983)
• The Hills Behind Hollywood High (1983) z Grania Davis - Wzgórza za Hollywood High Wielka księga fantastycznego humoru
• Full Chicken Richness (1983)
• Dear Friend Charlene (1984) z Grania Davis
• The House Surgis Sword (1984)
• The Slovo Stove (1985)
• Revenge of the Cat-Lady (1985)
• The Peninsula (1985)
• Mr. Folsom Feels Fine (1986)
• The Deed of the Deft-Footed Dragon (1986)
• Witness (1986)
• Body Man (1986)
• The Head of Shemesh the Eshurian (1986)
• Landscape with Giant Bison (1986)
• The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach (1986)
• Addrict (1987) z Grania Davis
• The Engine of Samoset Erastus Hale and One Other, Unknown (1987)
• Mountaineers Are Always Free (1987)
• Knox's 'Nga (1988)
• Nothing Like a Clean Weapon (1988)
• El Vilvoy de las Islas (1988)
• While You're Up (1988)
• One Morning With Samuel, Dorothy, and William (1988)
• Conversational Tales of the Wanland Number One: Of Sundry Tribes (1989)
• Events Which Took Place a Day Before Other Events (1989)
• Waiting for Willie (1989)
• Go Forth, Thou Grore (1990)
• Seeomancer (1990)
• Have You Tried Gummies? (1990)
• Poor Joe (1990) z Michael Kurland
• Unforced Entry (1990)
• Mr. Rob't E. Hoskins (1990)
• Death of a Damned Good Man (1991)
• The Day They All Came Back (1991)
• Leg (1991)
• In Brass Valley (1992)
• The Man Who Was Made of Money (1993)
• The Spook-Box of Theobald Delafont De Brooks (1993)
• George's Shirt (1995)
• Twenty-Three (1995)
• The Metaphysical Force (1995)
• Sacrifice (1996)
• Sambo (1996) z Ethan Davidson
• Room for One More (1997)
• Revolver (1998)
• The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil (1998) z Grania Davis
• Blunt (1998)
• Mickelrede; or, The Slayer and the Staff: A Ghost-Novel (2000) z Michael Swanwick
• The Beasts of the Elysian Fields (2001)