Richard A. Lupoff says: I must have been programmed for fantasy. My earliest memories are all in the mode — Bedtime stories based on Sidney Kingsley\u2019s \u201cWater Babies\u201d books…my Aunt Marion re-creating entire \u201cWitch\u2019s Tale\u201d programs for my entertainment…Sunday Funnies, \u201cFlash Gordon\u201d and \u201cAladdin, Jr.\u201d…children\u2019s books, \u201cThe Teenie Weenies\u201d and \u201cMaximo the Amazing Superman\u201d…comic books, of course, Captain Marvel, Green Lantern, the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner…radio dramas, \u201cInner Sanctum,\u201d \u201cThe Shadow,\u201d and \u201cI Love a Mystery\u201d…movies, \u201cSnow White,\u201d \u201cFrankenstein Meets the Wolfman.\u201d <\/p>\n

What a world of the imagination that was!<\/p>\n

I grew up during the last heyday of the pulps and the brief, glorious boom of the digests, and lived to crack many of those markets (or their latter-day revivals) myself — F&SF<\/em>, Weird Tales<\/em>, Strange Tales<\/em>, Other Worlds<\/em>, Amazing Stories<\/em>, Fantastic<\/em>, Argosy<\/em>, Ellery Queen\u2019s Mystery Magazine<\/em>. I never got rich but I had one hell of a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had the pleasure of winning a Hugo, snagging several Nebula nominations, and even an Oscar nomination for a film based on one of my stories. The Dallas Morning News<\/em> gave my coffee-table book, The Great American Paperback<\/em>, its \u201cNow Let Us Praise Lurid Trash Award,\u201d which resides proudly in my living room between the Hugo rocket ship and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Left Coast Crime convention.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen my stories selected for Best of the Year anthologies in the science fiction, mystery, and horror fields. I don\u2019t know how many authors have accomplished that hat trick, but I don\u2019t think there can be very many of us.<\/p>\n

These days I\u2019m running a small publishing company, Surinam Turtle Press<\/a> — and still writing books. Recent ones include Marblehead: A Novel of H. P. Lovecraft<\/em>, \u201clost\u201d when first written in 1976 and published to glowing reviews thirty years later… Quintet: The Cases of Chase and Delacroix…Terrors…Visions…<\/em> and coming in 2010, The Emerald Cat Killer…Dreams…Killer\u2019s Dozen<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard A. Lupoff says: I must have been programmed for fantasy. My earliest memories are all in the mode — Bedtime stories based on Sidney Kingsley\u2019s \u201cWater Babies\u201d books…my Aunt Marion re-creating entire \u201cWitch\u2019s Tale\u201d programs for my entertainment…Sunday Funnies, \u201cFlash Gordon\u201d and \u201cAladdin, Jr.\u201d…children\u2019s books, \u201cThe Teenie Weenies\u201d and \u201cMaximo the Amazing Superman\u201d…comic books, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":450,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"nocom.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-420","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P75off-6M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy2009.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy2009.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy2009.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy2009.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy2009.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy2009.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy2009.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420\/revisions\/606"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy2009.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy2009.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}