Phillip Mann (1) (1942–2022)
Autore di The Eye of the Queen
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Sull'Autore
Phillip Mann was born in 1942 in Britain. He is a science fiction author. He studied English and Drama at Manchester University and later in California before moving to New Zealand where he established the first Drama Studies position at a New Zealand university in 1970; at the Victoria University mostra altro of Wellington in Wellington. Between 1968 and 1970, he worked as a sub-editor with the New China News Agency in Beijing. "The Eye of the Queen" details the life of Marius Thorndyke, Earth's leading contact linguist and founder of the CLI (Contact Linguistics Institute) after he departs to the world called Pe-Ellia at the invitation of the species for whom that is their home world. This species, have been responsible for restricting Earth's space exploration to just a few inhabited planets none of which have attained space travel. This book met with great success. His next two books 'Master of Paxwax' and its sequel, 'Fall of the Families', have become classics of New Zealand literature. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction describes Phillip Mann's fiction as possessing "a strong visual and structural sense". Phillip Mann was made an Honorary Literary Fellows in the New Zealand Society of Authors' annual Waitangi Day Honours in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Serie
Opere di Phillip Mann
Ending the Silences: Critical Essays on the Works of Maurice Shadbolt (1995) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Architect [short fiction] 1 copia
Lux in Tenebris [short fiction] 1 copia
Opere correlate
2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C. Clarke's Birth (2018) — Collaboratore — 53 copie
Monsters in the Garden : An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy (2021) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1942
- Data di morte
- 2022-09-01
- Sesso
- male
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 18
- Opere correlate
- 8
- Utenti
- 572
- Popolarità
- #43,783
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 17
- ISBN
- 61
- Lingue
- 3