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John Crowley
Birth at
1 December 1942
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American writer and writer. Born in Presk Isle, Maine, after graduating from Indiana State University in Bloomington, he worked as a photographer and designer in commercial advertising; since 1966, he has been a professional writer (also known as a documentary screenwriter). He lives in Conway, Massachusetts. Crowley’s impressive debut, the novel “Depth?” (1975), immediately put the author in the leadership of the “generation of the 1970s?”; a complex plot (? at the intersection? of SF and fantasy)
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American writer and writer. Born in Presk Isle, Maine, after graduating from Indiana State University in Bloomington, he worked as a photographer and designer in commercial advertising; since 1966, he has been a professional writer (also known as a documentary screenwriter). He lives in Conway, Massachusetts.
Crowley’s impressive debut, the novel “Depth?” (1975), immediately put the author in the leadership of the “generation of the 1970s?”; a complex plot (? at the intersection? of SF and fantasy) and deep philosophical ideas made the book one of the highlights of the decade. The action of the novel, inspired by F. Farmer’s series about the “Multi-tiered world?”, unfolds on a strange disc-shaped artificial planet resting on a column going into the abyss, and the earthly heroes, transported from their own perishing world by an unknown and all-powerful Being (actually, the god - the creator of the planet-disk), participate at his will in in intricted “feudal” conflicts. A more traditional novel about the post-catastrophe world, Beasts? (1976), paints "balkanized"? America of the near future, populated by artificially bred human animals; post-catastrophic? America, but returned to utopia in the lap of nature, Crowley paints in the novel “Motor summer?” (1979).
Among Crowley’s other works stand out: the novel “Small, Big?” [Little, Big] (1981; World Fantasy Award?-82) - fantasy about several generations of one family associated with the world of fairies, as well as a series in the genre of historical fantasy?, started by the novel Egypt? [Aegypt] (1987). Crowley’s short stories and novels compiled the collection News? [Novelty] (1989); the novel The Great Work of Time? (1989; World Fantasy Prize-90), rewritten into the novel of the same name Great Work of Time? (1991); the characters of the work try to control the course of history.