Van Belle, Douglas A
Entry updated 18 March 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1965- ) New Zealand-based academic and author who has not revealed his country of origin; his higher degrees are American, and his academic affiliations are focused on New Zealand, where he also been publishing fiction from the beginning of his career; he also writes as Doug Van Belle. He began to publish work of genre interest with "A Small Blue Planet for the Pleasantly Insane" in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine for December 2004/January 2005; his first novel, the Hard SF Barking Death Squirrels (2010), takes place several centuries hence in a Space Opera galaxy where Homo sapiens has become a waif species (see Wainscot Societies) and must make do entrepreneurially. Of his later books, The Kahutahuta (2017) is a comic fantasy, and A World Adrift (2023) is a Steampunk tale set interestingly in a floating-society in orbit around Venus in the distant Near Future 800 years hence. [JC]
Douglas A Van Belle
born 3 October 1965
works (selected)
- Barking Death Squirrels (Wellington, New Zealand: Random Static, 2010) [pb/Emma Weakley]
- The Care and Feeding of Your Lunatic Mage (Paraparaumu, New Zealand: Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-op/for the author, 2010) [pb/Andrew Dunn]
- Breathe (no place given: Intergalactic Media Group, 2016) [pb/Jeff Fennel]
- The Kahutahuta (no place given: Intergalactic Media Group, 2017) [pb/]
- A World Adrift (Monument, Colorado: WordFire Press, 2023) [pb/Miblart]
nonfiction (highly selected)
- Between Science and Society: Charting the Space of Science Fiction (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2020) [nonfiction: hb/]
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