Steve Erickson

Born

in Los Angeles, The United States

April 20, 1950

Website

http://www.steveerickson.org/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Influences

Philip K. Dick, Paul Bowles, Raymond Chandler, Henry Miller, Emily Brontë, Gabriel García Márquez, Thomas Pynchon, Willia ...more

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Steve Erickson is the author of ten novels: Days Between Stations, Rubicon Beach, Tours of the Black Clock, Arc d'X, Amnesiascope, The Sea Came in at Midnight, Our Ecstatic Days, Zeroville, These Dreams of You and Shadowbahn. He also has written two books about American politics and popular culture, Leap Year and American Nomad. Numerous editions have been published in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Russian and Japanese. Over the years he has written for Esquire, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Conjunctions, Salon, the L.A. Weekly, the New York Times Magazine and other publications and journals, and his work has been widely anthologized. For twelve years he was editor and co-founder of the national literary jou ...more

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Average rating: 4.19 · 100,424 ratings · 3,267 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	Zeroville 4.08 avg rating — 2,341 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Days Between Stations 3.99 avg rating — 850 ratings — published 1985 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tours of the Black Clock 4.01 avg rating — 780 ratings — published 1989 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sea Came in at Midnight 3.83 avg rating — 832 ratings — published 1999 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadowbahn 3.48 avg rating — 910 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	These Dreams of You 3.91 avg rating — 505 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rubicon Beach 4.03 avg rating — 562 ratings — published 1986 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arc d'X 3.96 avg rating — 503 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Ecstatic Days 3.92 avg rating — 406 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amnesiascope 3.72 avg rating — 399 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Steve Erickson

Black Clock (11 books)
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Steve Erickson (Editor)

4.16 avg rating — 37 ratings

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Quotes by Steve Erickson

“a dream is only a memory of the future”
― steve erickson

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“I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.”
― Steve Erickson, Rubicon Beach

tags: fantasy, myth, poetry

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“If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.”
― Steve Erickson, The Sea Came in at Midnight

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Il libro di Talbott di Chuck Palahniuk

15 votes, 25.9%

L'uomo che cade di Don DeLillo

11 votes, 19.0%

Vergogna di J.M. Coetzee

11 votes, 19.0%

La straniera di Claudia Durastanti

7 votes, 12.1%

Shadowbahn di Steve Erickson

5 votes, 8.6%

The Weird and the Eerie. Lo strano e l'inquietante nel mondo contemporaneo di Mark Fisher

3 votes, 5.2%

Persone care di Vera Giaconi

2 votes, 3.4%

Stabat mater di Tiziano Scarpa

2 votes, 3.4%

La volatilità dell'amore di Uwe Timm

2 votes, 3.4%

L'uomo che trema di Andrea Pomella

0 votes, 0.0%

58 total votes

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