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| name = Robert Holdstock | image = Robert Holdstock 15 mai 2004 1.png | imagesize = 200px | caption = Holdstock in Épinal, 2004 | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth date|1948|8|2|df=y}} | birth_place = Hythe, Kent, England | death_date = {{death-date and age|df=yes|29 November 2009|2 August 1948}} | death_place = | occupation = Novelist | period = 1968–2009 | genre = Fantasy, Science fiction, Horror | subject = | movement = | notableworks = Mythago Wood | signature = | website = {{URL|robertholdstock.com}} }} Robert Paul Holdstock (2 August 1948 – 29 November 2009) was an English novelist and author best known for his works of Celtic, Nordic, Gothic and Pictish fantasy literature, predominantly in the fantasy subgenre of mythic fiction. Holdstock broke into print in 1968. His science fiction and fantasy works explore philosophical, psychological, anthropological, spiritual and woodland themes. He received three BSFA awards and won the World Fantasy Award in the category of Best Novel of 1985. BiographyRobert Holdstock, the eldest of five children, was born in Hythe, Kent. His father, Robert Frank Holdstock, was a police officer and his mother, Kathleen Madeline Holdstock, was a nurse. At the age of seven Robert started attending Gillingham Grammar School in the Medway Towns. As a young adult he had jobs including banana boatman, construction worker and slate miner.[1] He also earned a Bachelor of Science from University College of North Wales, Bangor, with honours in applied Zoology (1967–1970). He continued his education, earning a Master of Science in Medical Zoology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1971. He conducted research at the Medical Research Council in London from 1971 to 1974, while also doing part-time writing and producing a science fiction fanzine. He became a full-time writer during 1976 and lived out the rest of his life in North London.[2][3] He died in hospital at the age of 61, following his collapse with an E. coli infection on 18 November 2009.[4][5] WritingRobert Holdstock's first published story, "Pauper's Plot", appeared in the magazine New Worlds in 1968.[6] His first novel was a science fiction work, Eye Among the Blind, published in 1976.[7] During the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s Holdstock wrote many fantasy and science fiction novels along with a number of short stories, most of which were published under a pseudonym. Robert Holdstock's pseudonyms included Robert Faulcon, Chris Carlsen, Richard Kirk, Robert Black, Ken Blake, and Steven Eisler.[8] These included some adaptions of television scripts for novelisations of television series including The Professionals.[9] During this same period he wrote the text for Space Wars, Worlds and Weapons, a large format book in which he provided essays concerning the tropes of science fiction (and, in one chapter, sword and sorcery), accompanied by colour reproductions of related artwork. In 1980 Holdstock wrote Tour of the Universe with Malcolm Edwards. The rights were subsequently sold for a space shuttle simulation ride at the CN Tower, also called the Tour of the Universe. Holdstock's novel "The Dark Wheel",was included with the best-selling computer game Elite in 1984. He wrote an adaptation of The Emerald Forest, a film directed by John Boorman, and novelised episodes of the Granada Television series Bulman. Holdstock's breakthrough novel Mythago Wood was published in 1984. It began the Ryhope Wood series,[10] which continued until the appearance of Avilion in 2009. Holdstock was guest of honour at the annual Novacon in 1984, and a limited-edition chapbook featuring his fantasy story 'Thorn' was presented to the first 500 attendees. Between 2001 and 2007 Holdstock produced a trilogy of fantasy novels, the Merlin Codex, consisting of Celtika, The Iron Grail and The Broken Kings. Holdstock wrote, edited or contributed to a number of nonfiction works, including Alien Landscapes, Tour of the Universe, Horror: 100 Best Novels and Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (a different publication than The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). In 2013 a joint volume of poetry with Garry Kilworth (with whom he collaborated on the award-winning novella "The Ragthorn") was published by PS Publishing, Poems, Peoms and Other Atrocities.[11] Critical receptionDavid Pringle described Eye Among the Blind, Holdstock's first science fiction novel, as a "dogged, detailed, somewhat slow-moving planetary mystery".[12] Ursula K. Le Guin called the same novel "As strong a treatment of a central theme of science fiction – alienness, and the relation of the human and the alien – as any I have read."[13]According to Michael D. C. Drout, Holdstock's Ryhope Wood series is a significant part of the fantasy genre, displaying the power and aesthetic standards of Tolkien’s fantasy without being either a "close imitation of" or a "reaction against" Tolkien. Drout considers Holdstock, along with Ursula K. Le Guin, a worthy inheritor of the fantasy tradition created by Tolkien.[14] Patrick Curry placed Holdstock in a quartet of noteworthy fantasy authors, alongside Le Guin, John Crowley and Marion Zimmer Bradley, for writing fantasy books that come close to Tolkien's breadth and depth of imagination, and "in some respects surpass Tolkien".[15] David Langford offers praise for most of Holdstock's work, but regarded Merlin's Wood less highly: "the overall narrative is flawed, distorted by its weight of undeserved loss and inaccessible healing".[16]Book coversThe covers of Holdstock's books were produced by a variety of illustrators. The original UK and US covers of Mythago Wood were illustrated by Eddi Gornall and Christopher Zacharow, respectively; Geoff Taylor illustrated the original UK covers for the Mythago Wood sequels Lavondyss, The Bone Forest, The Hollowing and Merlin's Wood. Illustrators of subsequent covers and editions include Jim Burns, Tom Canty, John Howe, Alan Lee, John Jude Pallencar, Larry Rostant and Ron Walotsky. John Howe stated: "Holdstock is to me one of the best Celtic fantasy authors alive today."[17] Awards
Select bibliography{{Main|Robert Holdstock bibliography}}Ryhope Wood series
Night Hunter series (as Robert Faulcon)
References1. ^Holdstock, Robert Eye Among the Blind (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1976), back flap. 2. ^Newman, Kim St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, ed. David Pringle (Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1996), page 285. 3. ^Langford, David Supernatural Fiction Writers, Second Edition, Volume 1, ed. Richard Bleiler (New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003), page 445. 4. ^"Locus Roundtable: Robert Holdstock." Locus Online: The Website of The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field. Web. 29 Nov. 2009. <{{cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/Roundtable/2009/11/robert-holdstock.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-11-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091203112205/http://www.locusmag.com/Roundtable/2009/11/robert-holdstock.html |archivedate=3 December 2009 |df=dmy-all }}>. 5. ^http://robertholdstock.com/2009/11/rip-rob-holdstock/ 6. ^Moorcock, Michael Horror: The 100 Best Books, eds. Jones, Stephen and Newman, Kim (New York, NY: Carrol & Graf, 1998), page 326. 7. ^The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, David Pringle (London: Grafton Books, 1990), page 111. 8. ^The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, editors John Clute and John Grant (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997), page 474. 9. ^Pixley, Andrew: The Professionals MkIV Viewing Notes, Network, 2016. [Paperback book included with Blu-ray release] 10. ^Langford, David Supernatural Fiction Writers, Second Edition, Volume 1, ed. Richard Bleiler (New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003), page 446. 11. ^{{cite book|title=Poems, Peoms and Other Atrocities|last1=Kilworth|first1=Garry|last2=Holdstock|first2=Robert|publisher=PS Publishing|year=2013|isbn=978-1848636378|url=https://www.amazon.com/Poems-Peoms-Other-Atrocities-Stanza/dp/1848636377|series=Stanza Press|accessdate=27 May 2015}} 12. ^The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, David Pringle (London: Grafton, 1990), page 111. 13. ^The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, David Pringle (London: Grafton, 1990), page 111. 14. ^Drout, Michael D.C. Of Sorcerers and Men: Tolkien and the Roots of Modern Fantasy Literature, China: Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2006, page 56. 15. ^Curry, Patrick Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity, New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2004, pages 132–133 16. ^Langford, David Supernatural Fiction Writers, Second Edition, Volume 1, ed. Richard Bleiler (New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003), page 450. 17. ^Jude, Dick Fantasy Art Masters: The Best Fantasy and Science Fiction Artists and How They Work, London: HarperCollins, 1999, page 43. Sources{{refbegin}}
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