Hemmingson, Michael
Entry updated 19 February 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1966-2014) US cultural anthropologist, screenwriter and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Jack" in Midnight Zoo for 1993. His prolific output contains several works of sf interest, including Minstrels (1997), set in Near Future Paris where an American becomes embroiled in some action-thriller scenes intensified by – as in D G Compton's The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (1974) – his being fitted with a camera eye, transforming the world into a Media Landscape and his lover into a sex performer. The Rose of Heaven (2004) is fantasy whose action segues from California to World War One; In the Background Is a Walled City; Or, How Santa Claus & I Saved the World: An Historical Memoir (2008). also fantasy, features a midget protagonist and the eponymous elf-figure. The Fellowship of Amorous Gentlemen: Based on the Memoirs of That Redoubtable Explorer and Globe-Trotter, the Honorable Phileas Fogg, Esq (2009) is a Sequel by Other Hands to Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Judas Payne: A Weird Western (2009 ebook) [for publication details see Checklist] is a supernatural figure seemingly based on similar avenging angels in the Westerns of Clint Eastwood (1930- ). Hemmingson's talent was copious but exceedingly careless. [JC]
Michael Hemmingson
born Los Angeles, California: 12 July 1966
died Tijuana, Mexico: 9 January 2014
works (selected)
- Minstrels (San Francisco, California: Permeable Press, 1997) [pb/]
- The Rose of Heaven (Holicong, Pennsylvania: Prime Books, 2004) [hb/J T Lindroos]
- In the Background Is a Walled City; Or, How Santa Claus & I Saved the World: An Historical Memoir (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/Borgo Press, 2008) [pb/Helmut Niklas]
- Seven Women: An Erotic Private Investigation (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/Borgo Press, 2008) [pb/]
- The Stripper: A Tale of Lust & Crime (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/Borgo Press, 2009) [pb/]
- The Fellowship of Amorous Gentlemen: Based on the Memoirs of That Redoubtable Explorer and Globe-Trotter, the Honorable Phileas Fogg, Esq (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/Borgo Press, 2009) [Jules Verne: pb/]
- Judas Payne: A Weird Western (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/Borgo Press, 2010) [dos: pb/Fotolia]
collections
- Nice Little Stories Jam-Packed With Depraved Sex & Violence (Denver, Colorado: Jasmine Sailing/Cyber-Psychos AOD, 1995) [coll: chap: pb/Jim Bob Cook and Paul Sciola]
- Snuff Flique (Denver, Colorado: Cyber-Psychos AOD, 1997) [coll: pb/Richard A Schindler]
- My Dream Date (Rape) with Kathy Acker (Fountain Hills, Arizona: Eraserhead Press, 2002) [coll: pb/]
- How to Have an Affair and Other Instructions (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/Borgo Press, 2007) [coll: pb/]
- Sexy Strumpets & Troublesome Trollops: Enticing Tales (and Tails) of Erotic Noir (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/Borgo Press, 2009) [coll: pb/]
- The Chronotope and Other Speculative Fictions (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/Borgo Press, 2013) [coll: dos: bound with Poison from a Dead Sun below: pb/]
- Poison from a Dead Sun: A Science Fiction Tale (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/Borgo Press, 2013) [dos: bound with The Chronotope and Other Speculative Fictions above: pb/]
nonfiction
- Star Trek: A Post-Structural Critique of the Original Series (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/Borgo Press, 2009) [nonfiction: Star Trek: pb/]
- William T. Vollmann: A Critical Study and Seven Interviews (Jackson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2009) [nonfiction: William T Vollmann: hb/]
- William T. Vollmann: An Annotated Bibliography (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2012) [nonfiction: William T Vollmann: hb/]
works as editor
- What the Fuck: The Avant-Porn Anthology (New York: Soft Skull Press, 2000) [anth: pb/]
- Expelled from Eden: A William T Vollmann Reader (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004) with Larry McCaffery [anth: William T Vollmann: hb/]
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