Who was the American writer with the famous anthology called "Welcome to the Monkey House"?
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Who Am I This Time? "Who Am I This Time?" is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut, published in the "Saturday Evening Post" in 1961. The story was collected in Vonnegut's famous anthology "Welcome to the Monkey House". It was originally titled "My Name is Everyone".
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Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ( ; November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969).
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The Gernsback Continuum "The Gernsback Continuum" is a 1981 science fiction short story by American-Canadian author William Gibson, originally published in the anthology "Universe 11" edited by Terry Carr. It was later reprinted in Gibson's collection "Burning Chrome", and in "Mirrorshades", edited by Bruce Sterling. With some similarity to Gibson's later appraisal of Singapore for "Wired" magazine in "Disneyland with the Death Penalty", as much essay as fiction, it depicts the encounters of an American photographer with the period futuristic architecture of the American 1930s when he is assigned to document it for fictional London publishers Barris-Watford, and the gradual incursion of its cinematic future visions into his world. The "Gernsback" of the title alludes to Hugo Gernsback, the pioneer of early 20th century American pulp magazine science fiction.
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Robert Sheckley Robert Sheckley (July 17, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical.
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Displaced Person (American Playhouse) Displaced Person is a 1985 Emmy Award-winning episode of American anthology television series "American Playhouse", based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It was directed by Alan Bridges and adapted by Fred Barron from a story in the "Welcome to the Monkey House" collection. The title of the story in that collection was "D.P."
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Sam Walter Foss Sam Walter Foss (June 19, 1858 - February 26, 1911) was an American librarian and poet whose works included "The House by the Side of the Road" and "The Coming American."
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Bruce McAllister Bruce McAllister (born in 1946) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. He is known primarily for his short fiction. Over the years his short stories have been published in the major fantasy and science fiction magazines, theme anthologies, college readers, and "year's best" anthologies, including "Best American Short Stories 2007", guest-edited by Stephen King.
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Edward Abbey Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. His best-known works include the novel "The Monkey Wrench Gang", which has been cited as an inspiration by environmental groups, and the non-fiction work "Desert Solitaire".
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EPICAC (short story) "EPICAC" is a short story in the book "Welcome to the Monkey House" by Kurt Vonnegut. It was the first story to feature the fictional EPICAC computer later used in Vonnegut's novel "Player Piano" in 1952. It was published on 25 November 1950, for "Collier's Weekly", and reprinted in the February 1983 "PC Magazine".
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Merrill Gilfillan Merrill Daniel Gilfillan (born 14 May 1945) is an American writer of poetry, short fiction, and essays.
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Basil Wells Basil Eugene Wells (June 11, 1912 – December 23, 2003) was an American writer. His first published story, "Rebirth of Man" appeared in the magazine "Super Science Stories" in 1940. He wrote science fiction, fantasy western and detective stories for various magazines sometimes under the name Gene Ellerman. Two collections of his stories, "Planets of Adventure" and "Doorways to Space" were published by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.
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Poul Anderson Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career during the Golden Age of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.
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Welcome to the Monkey House (short story) "Welcome to the Monkey House" is a Kurt Vonnegut short story that is part of the collection of the same name. It is alluded to in "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" as one of Kilgore Trout's stories.
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The Girl Who Loved Animals "The Girl Wwho Loved Animals" is a short story by American writer Bruce McAllister. This particular work of short fiction was originally published in "Omni" in May 1988. It was included in the anthology "American Gothic Tales" in 1996 along. The story describes a future where primates are extinct and young impressionable women are targeted for an experimental procedures to impregnate them with a primate embryo, in an effort to bring back the species.
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The Jigsaw Man "The Jigsaw Man" is a short story in the "Known Space" universe by Larry Niven. The story was first published in Harlan Ellison's anthology "Dangerous Visions", and is included in Niven's collections "All the Myriad Ways" and "Tales of Known Space".
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August Derleth August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, as well as his founding of the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the US that had only been readily available in the UK), Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, and biography.
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Cele Goldsmith Lalli Cele Goldsmith Lalli (1933 – January 14, 2002) was an American editor. She was the editor of "Amazing Stories" from 1959 to 1965, "Fantastic" from 1958 to 1965, and later the Editor-in-Chief of "Modern Bride" magazine.
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The Big Front Yard "The Big Front Yard" is a science fiction short story by American writer Clifford D. Simak which won a 1959 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. It was also included in "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two" (1973) after being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965.
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The Poorhouse Fair The Poorhouse Fair (1959) was the first novel by the American author John Updike. A second edition (New York : Knopf, 1977) included an introduction by the author and was slightly revised.
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James Gleick James Gleick ( ; born August 1, 1954) is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology. Recognized for his writing about complex subjects through the techniques of narrative nonfiction, he has been called "one of the great science writers of all time".
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Masks (short story) "Masks" is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight. It was original published in Playboy magazine in 1968. It concerns a man who has been given an artificial body to house his brain and spinal cord. The story was nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1969.
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George Shepard Chappell George Shepard Chappell, AIA (January 2, 1877 – November 25, 1946) was an American architect, parodist, journalist (with the magazine "Vanity Fair") and author. He is known as the author of numerous books, including a travel series parody published under the pseudonym Walter E. Traprock.