Lovisi, Gary
Entry updated 14 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1952- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Why Do These Things Always Happen to Me?" for Heart of Dixie Comics in 1983, an sf Satire expanded into The Saga of Filster Stein (fixup 1988 chap). He has mostly written horror, though material from The Gargoyle (coll 1988 chap) was expanded into The Gargoyle (fixup 2000), set in the Far Future where an investigator risks the thrills of Time Abyss in his attempts to plumb the nature of the eponymous figure (see Horror in SF). Further sf tales – similarly irradiated with horror tropes (see Equipoise) – include Sarasha: A Novel of the Future (1997), in which an Earth long abandoned by humans is revisited and found to be full of weirdly Uplifted animals. The Winged-Men: An Interplanetary Scientific Romance (1997 chap), signalled as the beginning of the Cosian Chronicles, was substantially revised in 2014 and reissued the first volume in the Jon Kirk of Ares series.
In all this work, deliberate homages are paid to Pulp sf, a territory Lovisi also explored in his first book, Science Fiction Detective Tales (1986), a somewhat sketchy but well-informed survey. Instant Expert: Collecting Science Fiction and Fantasy (1997; exp vt Collecting Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Paperbacks 2002) is also useful. [JC]
Gary Anthony Lovisi
born New Hyde Park, New York: 28 April 1952
works
series
Cosian Chronicles/Jon Kirk of Ares
- The Winged-Men: An Interplanetary Scientific Romance (Seymour, Texas: Fading Shadows Press, 1997) [chap: Cosian Chronicles: pb/Ron Wilber]
- The Winged Men (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2014) [much rev vt of the above: Jon Kirk of Ares: pb/Marcus Boas]
- The Invisible Men (Cabin John: Wildside Press, 2015) [Jon Kirk of Ares: pb/Marcus Boas]
- The Space Men (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2015) [Jon Kirk of Ares: pb/Marcus Boas]
- The Mind Masters (Cabin John, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2017) [Jon Kirk of Ares: pb/Marcus Boas]
- The Time Masters (Cabin John, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2017) [Jon Kirk of Ares: pb/Marcus Boas]
individual titles
- Science Fiction Detective Tales (Brooklyn, New York: Gryphon Books, 1986) [nonfiction: pb/Brad W Foster]
- The Gargoyle (Brooklyn, New York: Gryphon Books, 1995) [coll: chap: pb/]
- The Gargoyle (Brooklyn, New York: Gryphon Books, 2000) [fixup: exp of the above: pb/Ron Turner]
- The Saga of Filster Stein (Brooklyn, New York: Gryphon Books, 1988) [fixup: chap: pb/]
- The Nemesis in Claws of the Falcon (New York: Gryphon Books, 1994) [coll: chap: dos: Nemesis: pb/Tim Faurote]
- Extreme Measures: Storie of Murder, Mayhem and Madness (Brooklyn, New York: Gryphon Books, 1995) [coll: pb/]
- Minesweeper (Brooklyn, New York: Gryphon Books, 1995) [chap: dos: pb/Ray Garcia Capella]
- Sarasha: A Novel of the Future (Brooklyn, New York: Gryphon Books, 1997) [pb/G Warlock Vance]
- The Satan Plague II (New York: Gryphon Books, 1999) [chap: dos: Nemesis: pb/Tim Faurote]
- The Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Vancleave, Mississippi: Ramble House, 2007) [coll: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes: pb/Gavin L O'Keefe]
- Mars Needs Books! (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2011) [pb/??]
- When the Dead Walk (Vancleave, Mississippi: Ramble House, 2007) [pb/Ed Coutts]
nonfiction
- Science Fiction Detective Tales (Brooklyn, New York: Gryphon Books, 1986) [nonfiction: pb/Brad W Foster]
- Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective in Paperback (Brooklyn, New York: Gryphon Books, 1990) [nonfiction: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes: pb/Franklin Hamilton]
- Instant Expert: Collecting Science Fiction and Fantasy (Brooklyn, New York: Alliance Publishing, 1997) [nonfiction: pb/]
- Collecting Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Paperbacks (Brooklyn, New York: Gryphon Books, 2002) [exp vt of the above: pb/]
- Souvenirs of Sherlock Holmes: Collected Articles on the Canon and the Pastiches (Brooklyn, New York: Gryphon Books, 2002) [nonfiction: coll: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes: pb/]
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