Onopa, Robert
Entry updated 29 July 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1943- ) US academic and author of The Pleasure Tube (1979), a tale in which an astronaut returns from space to a hallucinatory America and becomes entrapped, in the narrative present tense, in a Sex machine; Barry N Malzberg's influence seems clear. With David G Hartwell he edited Triquarterly 49 (anth 1980), a special sf issue of the magazine including stories and essays by Algis Budrys, Samuel R Delany, Thomas M Disch. Ursula K Le Guin, Michael Swanwick, Gene Wolfe and others.
Onopa continues to publish sf short stories, the later ones told with sharp-tongued gonzo Equipoise. [JC]
Robert Onopa
born Chicago, Illinois; 5 January 1943
works
- The Pleasure Tube (New York: Berkley Books, 1979) [pb/Eric Ladd]
works as editor
- Triquarterly 49 (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1980) with David G Hartwell [anth: special issue of Triquarterly on sf: pb/NASA photograph of Jupiter's ring system]
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