Clough, Brenda W
Entry updated 27 November 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1955- ) US author, initially of the fantasy Averidan series, as B W Clough, beginning with The Crystal Crown (1984), and latterly of the Suburban Gods sequence, comprising How Like a God (1997) and Doors of Death and Life (2000), in which occult fantasy consorts, not entirely easily, with Near Future sf as Gilgamesh's Pearl of Immortality passes from Edwin Barbarossa (who retains his Immortality) to the protagonist, whose Psi Powers are called into use after his homebound Spaceship blows up. The possibility of Immortality looms. An Impossumble Summer (1992) is fantasy for younger readers, but Revise the World (fixup 2009 ebook) is a Sleeper Awakes tale featuring a revived Antarctic explorer, Captain Lawrence "Titus" Oates (1880-1912), famous for his suicidal stiff-upper-lip stroll outdoors in a futile attempt to save other members of the Scott Expedition: "I am just going outside and may be some time." He awakens in the year 2045, where – singularly unfit for an urbanized Near Future environment – he becomes embroiled in a First Contact scenario involving Aliens who may be inimical. [JC]
Brenda Wang Clough
born Washington, District of Columbia: 13 November 1955
works
series
Averidan
- The Crystal Crown (New York: DAW Books, 1984) [Averidan: pb/Ken W Kelly]
- The Dragon of Mishbil (New York: DAW Books, 1985) [Averidan: pb/Segrelles]
- The Realm Beneath (New York: DAW Books, 1986) [Averidan: pb/Walter Velez]
- The Name of the Sun (New York: DAW Books, 1988) [Averidan: pb/Walter Velez]
Suburban Gods
- How Like a God (New York: Tor, 1997) [Suburban Gods: hb/Rick Berry]
- Doors of Death and Life (New York: Tor, 2000) [Suburban Gods: hb/Barry Appell]
- Suburban Gods (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2000) [omni of the above two: hb/Rick Berry]
Edge to Center
- The River Twice (Cedar Crest, New Mexico: Book View Café, 2019) [ebook: Edge to Center: na/]
- Meet Myself There (Cedar Crest, New Mexico: Book View Café, 2019) [ebook: Edge to Center: na/]
- The Fog of Time (Cedar Crest, New Mexico: Book View Café, 2019) [ebook: Edge to Center: na/]
- Edge to Center (Cedar Crest, New Mexico: Book View Café, 2019) [omni of the above three: ebook: Edge to Center: na/]
individual titles
- An Impossumble Summer (New York: Walker Books, 1992) [illus/hb/Susan Little]
- Revise the World (Cedar Crest, New Mexico: Book View Café, 2009) [fixup: ebook: na/]
- A Door in His Head (Des Moines, Iowa: Grand View University, 2023) [pb/]
links
- Brenda W Clough
- Brenda W Clough at SFF.net (archived)
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Picture Gallery
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