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Hjortsberg, William Reinhold was born on February 23, 1941 in New York City. Son of Helge Reinhold and Anna Ida (Welti) Hjortsberg.
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Gray Matters
( Unrest simmers in a dystopian future where disembodied ...)
Unrest simmers in a dystopian future where disembodied brains are kept alive in tanks, waiting to earn a new body At twelve years old, Skeets Kalbfleischer is returning from a ski vacation when a lightning strike knocks his plane out of the sky, killing everyone else on board. Although his body is destroyed, a radical procedure preserves Skeets’s brain, which spends twenty-five years in a fish tank before mankind realizes the implications of his second life. A key to immortality has been found. Four centuries later, it has become commonplace for the minds of the dead to be preserved. While warehoused in a massive storage facility tended by robots, the brains pass time watching old film clips, learning about bees, and meditating their way to a higher state of being. But for the facility’s overseers, Skeets presents a problem. A twelve-year-old for all eternity, their most famous resident still wants to be a cowboy. To remedy this embarrassment, his handlers concoct a solution that will push humanity even farther past nature’s wildest dreams. This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Hjortsberg including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
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Symbiography
(Dust jacket design by Ray Hoagland. One of 1000 trade cop...)
Dust jacket design by Ray Hoagland. One of 1000 trade copies. 1971 winner of the Playboy Editorial Award.
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Falling Angel: A Novel
( Hjortsberg’s Edgar Award–nominated classic about the hu...)
Hjortsberg’s Edgar Award–nominated classic about the hunt for a vanished singer that leads a detective into the depths of the occult Big-band frontman Johnny Favorite was singing for the troops when a Luftwaffe fighter squadron strafed the bandstand, killing the crowd and leaving the singer near death. The army returned him to a private hospital in upstate New York, leaving him to live out his days as a vegetable while the world forgot him. But Louis Cyphre never forgets. Cyphre had a contract with the singer, stipulating payment upon Johnny’s death—payment that will be denied as long as Johnny clings to life. When Cyphre hires private investigator Harry Angel to find Johnny at the hospital, Angel learns that the singer has disappeared. It is no ordinary missing-person’s case. Everyone he questions dies soon after, as Angel’s investigation ensnares him in a bizarre tangle of black magic, carnival freaks, and grisly voodoo. When the sinister Louis Cyphre begins appearing in Angel’s dreams, the detective fears for his life, his sanity, and his soul. This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Hjortsberg including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1453271139/?tag=2022091-20
Nevermore
(The lives of Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are...)
The lives of Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are irrevocably intertwined when they investigate a series of chilling murders that imitate those found in Edgar Allen Poe's most disturbing stories. Reprint. NYT. PW. K.
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Odd Corners: The Slip-Stream World of William Hjortsberg
( In 1971, when William Hjortsberg first published Gray M...)
In 1971, when William Hjortsberg first published Gray Matters, reviewers mentioned Borges. And in 1972 came Symbiography, a novella about a man who dreams for a living. He is, in fact, a best-selling dreamer. Before "Mad Max" (1979) and Neuromancer (1984), back in the days when reality was either "real" or chemical, Hjortsberg sat about to create a post-holocaust fiction, (mis-termed, we think, "science" fiction), that anticipates the Virtual, the Punk, and the Meta. In The New York Times, John Leonard called him "a satanic S.J. Perelman . . . by way of Disney and de Sade," and Harry Crews, also in The Times, continued, "He writes fiction the way Leroy Jordan plays football—with controlled abandon—which is to say, with the abandon that only the greatest discipline can release." As readers it is thrilling to realize how perfectly timed this work is for our day, fresher even, somehow, than it was thirty years ago. Odd Corners collects Gray Matters and Symbiography together with two stories never before in book form, a complete cyberworld, courtesy of William Hjorstberg.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593760213/?tag=2022091-20
William Reinhold Hjortsberg
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Education
Bachelor, Dartmouth College, 1962; postgraduate, Yale University, 1962-1963; postgraduate, Stanford University, 1967-1968.
Career
Independent author, screenwriter, since 1969. Adjunct Professor media and theatre arts Montana State University, since 1991.
Works
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Falling Angel: A Novel
( Hjortsberg’s Edgar Award–nominated classic about the hu...)
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Gray Matters
( Unrest simmers in a dystopian future where disembodied ...)
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Nevermore
(The lives of Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are...)
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Odd Corners: The Slip-Stream World of William Hjortsberg
( In 1971, when William Hjortsberg first published Gray M...)
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Symbiography
(Dust jacket design by Ray Hoagland. One of 1000 trade cop...)
- By William Hjortsberg - Falling Angel (1905-06-15) Hardcover
- Symbiography by William Hjortsberg (1973-06-01)
- Falling Angel
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Falling Angel: A Novel
Membership
Member Authors Guild, Writers Guild American.
Interests
Connections
Married Marian Souidee Renken, June 2, 1962 (divorced 1982). Children: Lorca Isabel, Max William. Married Sharon Leroy, July 21, 1982 (divorced 1985).
Married Janie Camp, January 27, 2007.
