Bruce McAllister's Blog
September 4, 2022
Collection Press Release and Bio
Bruce McAllister Publishes New Short-Story Collection
Science fiction and fantasy writer Bruce McAllister, who began his career at age 16, has published a new short story collection, STEALING GOD AND OTHER STORIES (Aeon Press). All of the stories are from the new millennium, and the book boasts an introduction by science fiction novelist and critic Paul di Filippo, with cover art by the award-winning artist Dominic Harman. Di Filippo calls it “a bold new collection full of marvelous gems,” and about the collection award-winning anthologist Ellen Datlow writes: “The eighteen stories here will fascinate and intrigue. Each McAllister story is a marvel."
McAllister has been publishing for six decades. His first science fiction story, written when he was 16, was chosen for Judith Merrill’s "best science fiction of the year” anthology, brought him attention in the field, and was reprinted decades later in Isaac Asimov’s “Golden Age of Science Fiction” anthology series, THE GREAT SCIENCE FICTION STORIES. Over the decades since that first story, his stories have won or been nominated for awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Nebula, Hugo, LOCUS, Shirley Jackson Award, NARRATIVE magazine, and others; and been included in many “year's best” volumes, theme anthologies, and college textbooks.
His Hugo-nominated short story “Kin” was chosen to launch actor LeVar Burton’s podcast LEVAR BURTON READS, and his short story “The Boy In Zaquitos” was selected by Stephen King for THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES. His “ESP in war” novel, DREAM BABY—the story of an Army nurse in Vietnam who dreams the deaths of her patients and cannot save them—became a classic and was called by PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY “a tour de force—one of the most memorable chronicles of the Vietnam War.” For that novel McAllister spent a decade interviewing two hundred veterans of three American wars, and the storyline is based on a CIA contingency plan to end the Vietnam war that still has not been made public, though it is alluded to in Nixon’s memoirs.
McAllister’s semi-autobiographical novel of “magical realism,” THE VILLAGE SANG TO THE SEA: A MEMOIR OF MAGIC—was a Cybils Award nominee and was cited by LOCUS magazine as one of the year's twenty-five best fantasy novels. He has served on many awards juries. In 1992, as one of the science fiction field’s ”male feminists,” he was appointed to the James Tiptree/Alice Sheldon Memorial Award jury for the best feminist/humanist novel of the year.
While in high school, McAllister composed a questionnaire about “symbolism in writing” and sent it to 150 of the world’s most famous writers. Seventy-five of them answered. The story of his reaching out to famous authors and their generous responses went viral fifty years later thanks to the PARIS REVIEW and still influences the teaching of literature in schools across the country. While in high school, and for a science fair project, he was also involved as co-director of a sleep deprivation project that became the third most written-about story in the world and provided data to change how sleep deprivation was viewed by experts.
The son of a career Navy officer who worked for NATO in Europe during the Cold War and an underdog championing anthropologist mother who was probably part Native American, McAllister often writes about the social sciences and marine sciences in his fiction. When his father was stationed in Italy during the Cold War, McAllister and his younger brother Jack attended school in a local Italian village. McAllister had already begun to write fiction, and the experience of that “magical place and time would influence my writing ever after," he reports. Italy often features in his fantasy and science fiction, and he has a following in that country. Art is another of his interests. In Italy he was taught traditional drawing and painting techniques in Florence by modernist painter Arrigo Dreoni at the Institute of the Belle Arti. His other interests include Early Man archaeology, paleontology, conchology, international affairs, multicultural education and sciences in general.
While a faculty member at the University of Redlands in southern California for two and a half decades, McAllister established its creative and professional writing programs, was Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of Literature and Writing, and served as an interdisciplinary writing consultant on scholarly and scientific articles and books to other faculty.
When he isn’t writing fiction and poetry, he serves as a writing coach to new and established writers of all kinds of fiction, non-fiction and screenwriting, and as a publishing consultant. He works regularly with middle school and high school students one-on-one, has taught the Youth Writing Workshop at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, and teaches occasional half-day writing and publishing workshops for Chapman University. He is currently working with three partners on a TV-series adaptation of his novel DREAM BABY and on two novels and short stories. He lives in Orange, California, with his wife, choreographer and medical Qi Gong instructor Amelie Hunter, and has three grown children—Liz, Ben and Annie.
Science fiction and fantasy writer Bruce McAllister, who began his career at age 16, has published a new short story collection, STEALING GOD AND OTHER STORIES (Aeon Press). All of the stories are from the new millennium, and the book boasts an introduction by science fiction novelist and critic Paul di Filippo, with cover art by the award-winning artist Dominic Harman. Di Filippo calls it “a bold new collection full of marvelous gems,” and about the collection award-winning anthologist Ellen Datlow writes: “The eighteen stories here will fascinate and intrigue. Each McAllister story is a marvel."
McAllister has been publishing for six decades. His first science fiction story, written when he was 16, was chosen for Judith Merrill’s "best science fiction of the year” anthology, brought him attention in the field, and was reprinted decades later in Isaac Asimov’s “Golden Age of Science Fiction” anthology series, THE GREAT SCIENCE FICTION STORIES. Over the decades since that first story, his stories have won or been nominated for awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Nebula, Hugo, LOCUS, Shirley Jackson Award, NARRATIVE magazine, and others; and been included in many “year's best” volumes, theme anthologies, and college textbooks.
His Hugo-nominated short story “Kin” was chosen to launch actor LeVar Burton’s podcast LEVAR BURTON READS, and his short story “The Boy In Zaquitos” was selected by Stephen King for THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES. His “ESP in war” novel, DREAM BABY—the story of an Army nurse in Vietnam who dreams the deaths of her patients and cannot save them—became a classic and was called by PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY “a tour de force—one of the most memorable chronicles of the Vietnam War.” For that novel McAllister spent a decade interviewing two hundred veterans of three American wars, and the storyline is based on a CIA contingency plan to end the Vietnam war that still has not been made public, though it is alluded to in Nixon’s memoirs.
McAllister’s semi-autobiographical novel of “magical realism,” THE VILLAGE SANG TO THE SEA: A MEMOIR OF MAGIC—was a Cybils Award nominee and was cited by LOCUS magazine as one of the year's twenty-five best fantasy novels. He has served on many awards juries. In 1992, as one of the science fiction field’s ”male feminists,” he was appointed to the James Tiptree/Alice Sheldon Memorial Award jury for the best feminist/humanist novel of the year.
While in high school, McAllister composed a questionnaire about “symbolism in writing” and sent it to 150 of the world’s most famous writers. Seventy-five of them answered. The story of his reaching out to famous authors and their generous responses went viral fifty years later thanks to the PARIS REVIEW and still influences the teaching of literature in schools across the country. While in high school, and for a science fair project, he was also involved as co-director of a sleep deprivation project that became the third most written-about story in the world and provided data to change how sleep deprivation was viewed by experts.
The son of a career Navy officer who worked for NATO in Europe during the Cold War and an underdog championing anthropologist mother who was probably part Native American, McAllister often writes about the social sciences and marine sciences in his fiction. When his father was stationed in Italy during the Cold War, McAllister and his younger brother Jack attended school in a local Italian village. McAllister had already begun to write fiction, and the experience of that “magical place and time would influence my writing ever after," he reports. Italy often features in his fantasy and science fiction, and he has a following in that country. Art is another of his interests. In Italy he was taught traditional drawing and painting techniques in Florence by modernist painter Arrigo Dreoni at the Institute of the Belle Arti. His other interests include Early Man archaeology, paleontology, conchology, international affairs, multicultural education and sciences in general.
While a faculty member at the University of Redlands in southern California for two and a half decades, McAllister established its creative and professional writing programs, was Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of Literature and Writing, and served as an interdisciplinary writing consultant on scholarly and scientific articles and books to other faculty.
When he isn’t writing fiction and poetry, he serves as a writing coach to new and established writers of all kinds of fiction, non-fiction and screenwriting, and as a publishing consultant. He works regularly with middle school and high school students one-on-one, has taught the Youth Writing Workshop at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, and teaches occasional half-day writing and publishing workshops for Chapman University. He is currently working with three partners on a TV-series adaptation of his novel DREAM BABY and on two novels and short stories. He lives in Orange, California, with his wife, choreographer and medical Qi Gong instructor Amelie Hunter, and has three grown children—Liz, Ben and Annie.
New McAllister Short-Story Collection
Happy to report that my new short-story collection, STEALING GOD AND OTHER STORIES (Aeon Press), is out at last--all science fiction, fantasy and horror tales from the new millennium with an introduction by novelist and critic Paul Di Filippo, cover art from the award-winning Dominic Harman, and kind endorsements from the "queen of horror," Ellen Datlow; Sheila Williams of ASIMOV'S fame; and ANALOG helmsman Trevor Quachri.
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“Whether it be science fiction, fantasy, or horror, each Bruce McAllister story is a marvel. The eighteen stories here will fascinate and intrigue, and some of them will break your heart.”
- Ellen Datlow
“In these wide-ranging, beautiful short stories, readers will feel the characters’ emotions as their own. McAllister’s well-imagined settings can range from the past to the future, from Arcturus to a small town, and each one captivates. When I reach the end of one tale, I can’t wait to turn to the next.”
- Sheila Williams
“You might think you’re getting just a collection of short stories here, but you’re not. They’re also love letters to the places and curiosities that fascinate us as children; ransom notes, from half-remembered nightmares; and sometimes both at the same time: a warm embrace that ends with a shiv to the spine. It’s science fiction, yes, but also poetry, fantasy, and faith. Whatever you think you’re about to read, you’re wrong - it’s far more.”
- Trevor Quachri
"A bold, brilliant new collection, full of marvelous gems."
- Paul di Filippo, from the introduction
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“Whether it be science fiction, fantasy, or horror, each Bruce McAllister story is a marvel. The eighteen stories here will fascinate and intrigue, and some of them will break your heart.”
- Ellen Datlow
“In these wide-ranging, beautiful short stories, readers will feel the characters’ emotions as their own. McAllister’s well-imagined settings can range from the past to the future, from Arcturus to a small town, and each one captivates. When I reach the end of one tale, I can’t wait to turn to the next.”
- Sheila Williams
“You might think you’re getting just a collection of short stories here, but you’re not. They’re also love letters to the places and curiosities that fascinate us as children; ransom notes, from half-remembered nightmares; and sometimes both at the same time: a warm embrace that ends with a shiv to the spine. It’s science fiction, yes, but also poetry, fantasy, and faith. Whatever you think you’re about to read, you’re wrong - it’s far more.”
- Trevor Quachri
"A bold, brilliant new collection, full of marvelous gems."
- Paul di Filippo, from the introduction
February 9, 2020
Update on everything
2/8/2020 Loyal readers and good friends keep asking whether I'm still working (my day job, yes) as a writing coach and book and screenplay consultant; and the answer is "yes" (and that I don't have any intention of retiring from it for 20/30 years). The coaching website for those interested: www.mcallistercoaching.com
While I'm at it (2014 was the last post--really?), an update on publications, interviews, fame (for what it might worth in a viral age) and longevity:
l. Actor LeVar Burton chose my Hugo-nominee story "Kin" to launch his new podcast, LEVAR BURTON READS. If you don't know LeVar--who's a wonderful man--from growing up on READING RAINBOW, then you know him from STAR TREK, ROOTS and other roles. His incredible podcast of "Kin" is at www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/lev... . His interview with the author is on Stitcher, too, but you've got to pay for it, I'm afraid.
2. The sleep-deprivation experiment (Google: Randy Gardner sleep) keeps trending, first on NPR, then the BBC (I was interviewed: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvtts ), and a NOVA segment on sleep--in which yours truly appears--is forthcoming.
3. The symbolism-questionnaire project keeps trending too every once in a while. Nice to see that old stories, if they're resonant ones for people, just don't die. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/20...
4. Short stories and poems over the past two years and forthcoming in THE CHICAGO REVIEW, ANALOG, ASIMOV'S, FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, CEMETERY DANCE, LIGHTSPEED, Horton's YEARS BEST SCIENCE FICTION, and others. (Yes, I write in fits and starts, but I do write, must write, because, if I don't, the world becomes even more surreal)
5. Hollywood continues its interest in DREAM BABY after thirty years and there may be some solid news sometime in 2020. (The last was Ridley Scott's DOD's interest six years ago.)
While I'm at it (2014 was the last post--really?), an update on publications, interviews, fame (for what it might worth in a viral age) and longevity:
l. Actor LeVar Burton chose my Hugo-nominee story "Kin" to launch his new podcast, LEVAR BURTON READS. If you don't know LeVar--who's a wonderful man--from growing up on READING RAINBOW, then you know him from STAR TREK, ROOTS and other roles. His incredible podcast of "Kin" is at www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/lev... . His interview with the author is on Stitcher, too, but you've got to pay for it, I'm afraid.
2. The sleep-deprivation experiment (Google: Randy Gardner sleep) keeps trending, first on NPR, then the BBC (I was interviewed: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvtts ), and a NOVA segment on sleep--in which yours truly appears--is forthcoming.
3. The symbolism-questionnaire project keeps trending too every once in a while. Nice to see that old stories, if they're resonant ones for people, just don't die. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/20...
4. Short stories and poems over the past two years and forthcoming in THE CHICAGO REVIEW, ANALOG, ASIMOV'S, FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, CEMETERY DANCE, LIGHTSPEED, Horton's YEARS BEST SCIENCE FICTION, and others. (Yes, I write in fits and starts, but I do write, must write, because, if I don't, the world becomes even more surreal)
5. Hollywood continues its interest in DREAM BABY after thirty years and there may be some solid news sometime in 2020. (The last was Ridley Scott's DOD's interest six years ago.)
July 7, 2015
FORTHCOMING MCALLISTER STORIES
20014 was, I'm jazzed to report, a prolific year in short-story production--by McAllister's plodding standards anyway. Stories forthcoming in ANALOG, ASIMOV'S, BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES, CEMETERY DANCE, FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, and others.
Kickstarter Campaign for MOVING ON (THE FILM) MAKES ITS GOAL
Thanks to all of our backers, we reached the $ goal on our Kickstarter campaign for MOVING (THE FILM)--a very short film based on a short story of mine originally published in OMNI back in the day. We have our film crew and two of our three actors and are putting the word out for a moody, charismatic, 20-something actor to play John Clinger, the young man who, as the Mojave Listening Station's technician, falls in love when he shouldn't with one of the ghosts the Justice Department has him monitoring for murder-case testimony. Ellen Datlow was the editor who first published the story, and Gregory Benford was the science consultant on the story (how DO you listen to ghosts before they "move on"?). Here's the link to the Kickstarter page and the teaser/trailer we made for it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
June 7, 2015
Kickstarter Campaign for Bruce and Ben McAllister's MOVING ON (THE FILM) Launches
We’ve launched at last the Kickstarter funding campaign for the short film my son Ben and I hope to make based on a short story of mine published in Omni. The campaign—with a film trailer that gives a taste of the story--is at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/... .
Here’s the skinny on the project and the Kickstarter funding goal we’re aiming for. Help us get the word out, please.
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Headline: "Father and Son Head to Hollywood!"
Ben and I have wanted to make a film together since Ben was a kid. We're doing it at last. When the film is finished, we'll approach Hollywood producers, directors, actors and production companies (we do have contacts) in the hope of getting the right people interested in making a feature-length film based on our film and the short story.
The Source:
Our film, "Moving On," will be a 5-minute short based on a story of Bruce's published in Omni magazine by famed editor Ellen Datlow. Award-winning science-fiction writer and physicist Gregory Benford generously served as the story's science consultant. You can read the short story here. (If the blue lengths here don’t work, the Kickstarter site itself has them: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
The Story:
"Moving On" is the story of a young man in a near-future America whose job it is to take murder testimony from very real ghosts...and who follows his heart into very dangerous places.
The Filmmakers:
Over the campaign's month we'll be putting together a team of guerilla actors and filmmakers to bring our vision to the screen. We're already in discussions with actors for the lead role and with cinematographers and FX folk, and have our supporting actor and tech advisors in place.
And us? Ben and I have collaborated on trailers for two of my novels (one that went viral on YouTube) and one film trailer (the one for this campaign); and we've co-financed a wonderful 12-minute short based on another McAllister short story--one directed by veteran screenwriter and good friend Ronnie Christensen.
Once the film is finished, you'll be able to view it immediately on the website we're building for it. (In other words, no endless film-festival delays, and no endless "post-production" status, we promise.) And of course, when the film is finished and we take it to Hollywood, we'll keep our Kickstarter backers posted.
Stay tuned! We'll be announcing cast and crew in Kickstarter campaign updates over the next month.
Ben and Bruce:
Ben is a visual artist who has worked on music videos, commercials and ad campaigns; has designed web and mobile applications for the entertainment industry; and happens to be a wizard with motion graphics and editing. Bruce has been publishing science fiction for half a century and is, among other things, a screenwriting consultant.
Budget:
Because we're using a "guerilla-filmmaking" model, we can keep film costs to a minimum, get the quality we want (call it "creative control"), and actually have fun doing it. The $5400 in Kickstarter campaign funds will go to equipment rentals, cast and crew transportation, location costs, crew expenses, set design/props, wardrobe, make-up--the usual. We'll be spending our own money on the film, too, of course, but the campaign's goal is crucial.
We're very excited. Hope you can join us!
Here’s the skinny on the project and the Kickstarter funding goal we’re aiming for. Help us get the word out, please.
* * *
Headline: "Father and Son Head to Hollywood!"
Ben and I have wanted to make a film together since Ben was a kid. We're doing it at last. When the film is finished, we'll approach Hollywood producers, directors, actors and production companies (we do have contacts) in the hope of getting the right people interested in making a feature-length film based on our film and the short story.
The Source:
Our film, "Moving On," will be a 5-minute short based on a story of Bruce's published in Omni magazine by famed editor Ellen Datlow. Award-winning science-fiction writer and physicist Gregory Benford generously served as the story's science consultant. You can read the short story here. (If the blue lengths here don’t work, the Kickstarter site itself has them: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
The Story:
"Moving On" is the story of a young man in a near-future America whose job it is to take murder testimony from very real ghosts...and who follows his heart into very dangerous places.
The Filmmakers:
Over the campaign's month we'll be putting together a team of guerilla actors and filmmakers to bring our vision to the screen. We're already in discussions with actors for the lead role and with cinematographers and FX folk, and have our supporting actor and tech advisors in place.
And us? Ben and I have collaborated on trailers for two of my novels (one that went viral on YouTube) and one film trailer (the one for this campaign); and we've co-financed a wonderful 12-minute short based on another McAllister short story--one directed by veteran screenwriter and good friend Ronnie Christensen.
Once the film is finished, you'll be able to view it immediately on the website we're building for it. (In other words, no endless film-festival delays, and no endless "post-production" status, we promise.) And of course, when the film is finished and we take it to Hollywood, we'll keep our Kickstarter backers posted.
Stay tuned! We'll be announcing cast and crew in Kickstarter campaign updates over the next month.
Ben and Bruce:
Ben is a visual artist who has worked on music videos, commercials and ad campaigns; has designed web and mobile applications for the entertainment industry; and happens to be a wizard with motion graphics and editing. Bruce has been publishing science fiction for half a century and is, among other things, a screenwriting consultant.
Budget:
Because we're using a "guerilla-filmmaking" model, we can keep film costs to a minimum, get the quality we want (call it "creative control"), and actually have fun doing it. The $5400 in Kickstarter campaign funds will go to equipment rentals, cast and crew transportation, location costs, crew expenses, set design/props, wardrobe, make-up--the usual. We'll be spending our own money on the film, too, of course, but the campaign's goal is crucial.
We're very excited. Hope you can join us!
February 19, 2015
New Emilio Fantasy
A new dreamy-Italian-Renaissance tale (third in the series) about Emilio, his two good friends (the Child Pope Bonifacio and the horse-racing girl Caterina), and the Drinkers of Blood, who have taken Rome and are spreading their dark communion throughout Christendom, is now up at BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES #167 http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/
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"The minstrel who found me on the wharf one night in my fishing village, carrying word from the father I had never seen, certainly did not mention a girl. He said only that I must find the Child Pope Bonifacio, who had been hidden on the windy Island of Elba by his uncle, the Cardinal Vocassini; and that from this boy no older than I obtain the holiest water in the land. I was, the minstrel insisted, the emissary of La Compassione’s spirit to the world, whether I knew it or not; and, as my body changed to serve her, I was essential to any hope for the Drinkers' defeat...."
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Previous tales in the series are "Blue Fire" and "Canticle of the Beasts," both of which appeared in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION.
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"The minstrel who found me on the wharf one night in my fishing village, carrying word from the father I had never seen, certainly did not mention a girl. He said only that I must find the Child Pope Bonifacio, who had been hidden on the windy Island of Elba by his uncle, the Cardinal Vocassini; and that from this boy no older than I obtain the holiest water in the land. I was, the minstrel insisted, the emissary of La Compassione’s spirit to the world, whether I knew it or not; and, as my body changed to serve her, I was essential to any hope for the Drinkers' defeat...."
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Previous tales in the series are "Blue Fire" and "Canticle of the Beasts," both of which appeared in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION.
February 9, 2014
Award nominations and media attention for THE VILLAGE SANG TO THE SEA
2013 was a good year for my new little novel THE VILLAGE SANG TO THE SEA. It was nominated for the Cybil Awards in young-adult "speculative fiction," and a section of it "(The Crying Child"--aka "The Bleeding Child") was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award.
The novel and its author have also been featured in articles in newspapers in Florence and Genoa because the village of the novel's title is a real Italian village--one that a boy got to know half a century ago...and one whose spirit has not been lost in the tide of time.
The novel and its author have also been featured in articles in newspapers in Florence and Genoa because the village of the novel's title is a real Italian village--one that a boy got to know half a century ago...and one whose spirit has not been lost in the tide of time.
THE VILLAGE SANG TO THE SEA on 2013 LOCUS Recommended Reading List
Very happy to report that THE VILLAGE SANG TO THE SEA: A MEMOIR OF MAGIC is one of 28 fantasy novels on LOCUS magazine's just-announced 2013 Recommended Reading List. The novel has received wonderful reviews from reviewers Paul Di Filippo and Gary K. Wolfe in LOCUS online and the print magazine; and from Michael Bishop in THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION.
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"McAllister’s book radiates an elegiac and meditative aura, as of puzzles that continue to perplex even after their solutions seem conclusive. It charts the slippery interfaces and interstices between the quotidian and the supernal, a realm most of us shut out and pretend does not exist. If classic Italian cinema still flourished—a world in decline and decay and evanescence, much like Brad’s memories—then it would require a combination of the talents of Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini to film this haunting biography of boy and his village."
--Paul di Filippo
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"McAllister’s book stands as an eloquent ode to the universal mysteries of both place and coming of age."
--Michael Bishop
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"Luminous, haunting and thoroughly memorable..."
--Gary K. Wolfe
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"McAllister’s book radiates an elegiac and meditative aura, as of puzzles that continue to perplex even after their solutions seem conclusive. It charts the slippery interfaces and interstices between the quotidian and the supernal, a realm most of us shut out and pretend does not exist. If classic Italian cinema still flourished—a world in decline and decay and evanescence, much like Brad’s memories—then it would require a combination of the talents of Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini to film this haunting biography of boy and his village."
--Paul di Filippo
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"McAllister’s book stands as an eloquent ode to the universal mysteries of both place and coming of age."
--Michael Bishop
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"Luminous, haunting and thoroughly memorable..."
--Gary K. Wolfe
July 24, 2013
FILMS BASED ON MCALLISTER STORIES
My son, Ben, is co-producing and possibly co-scoring the short film based on my short story, "The Boy in Zaquitos," which appeared originally in FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION and which Stephen King chose for his BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2007. The film will be shot 8/10 in LA over two days with screenwriter Ronnie Christensen (PASSENGERS, DARK TIDE, NBC's 10.5) directing and Reggie Currelly 9THE SHIELD, THE GUARDIAN, JAG, COLD CASE) starring.
My Hugo-finalist short story, "Kin," which was originally slated to be a short film as well with writer-director McAuley helming a good crew and which has morphed under him, with new people attached, into a heavy-FX pilot project for an exciting futuristic webseries, will be seeing it first studio pitch meeting this week. Fingers crossed!
Hollywood has once again expressed interest in my HUgo- and Nebula-finalist short story, "Dream Baby"--this time from two directions. The last interest, which Ben and I had fun creating a concept treatment for, was a vampire take on it. Not as crazy as it sounds. Vietnam--where the story and novel are seyt, as some of you know, has its own breed of scary vampires and immense, sprawling karst-limestone caves where they've been sleeping for centuries....needing only a bombing run to waken!
My Hugo-finalist short story, "Kin," which was originally slated to be a short film as well with writer-director McAuley helming a good crew and which has morphed under him, with new people attached, into a heavy-FX pilot project for an exciting futuristic webseries, will be seeing it first studio pitch meeting this week. Fingers crossed!
Hollywood has once again expressed interest in my HUgo- and Nebula-finalist short story, "Dream Baby"--this time from two directions. The last interest, which Ben and I had fun creating a concept treatment for, was a vampire take on it. Not as crazy as it sounds. Vietnam--where the story and novel are seyt, as some of you know, has its own breed of scary vampires and immense, sprawling karst-limestone caves where they've been sleeping for centuries....needing only a bombing run to waken!
