Wagner, Bruce
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1954- ) US screenwriter and author who has focused on the splendours and miseries of California life and culture, as in his first book, Force Majeure: The Bud Wiggins Stories (coll of linked stories 1988; exp vt Force Majeure 1991), whose Comic-Inferno examination of Hollywood (see Cinema) edges close to the fantastic. His script for the Television series Wild Palms (which see for details) is full-blown sf. He produced three separate books about or rendering the series: The Wild Palms Reader (1993) with Roger Trilling (contributing editor) can be read as fiction or nonfiction or both; Wild Palms (graph 1993) is a spoofish novelization as a Graphic Novel; and Wild Palms: The Teleplay (1994) directly conveys a sense of the Satire that underpins the enterprise. He wrote the screen play for the sf film White Dwarf (1995), whose gonzo plot may have overstretched director Peter Markle's budget. [JC]
Bruce Alan Wagner
born Madison, Wisconsin: 20 March 1954
works (selected)
- Force Majeure: The Bud Wiggins Stories (Los Angeles, California: Caldecot Chubb, 1988) [coll of linked stories: pb/]
- Force Majeure (New York: Random House, 1991) [exp vt of the above in novel form: hb/Chris Alan Wilton]
- The Wild Palms Reader (New York: St Martin's Press, 1993) with Roger Trilling (contributing editor) [fiction/nonfiction: pb/]
- Wild Palms (no place given: Tiger Books, 1993) [graph: illus/pb/Julian Allen]
- Wild Palms: The Teleplay (New York: St Martin's Press, 1994) [pb/]
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