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Kim Newman.
Kim Newman.

Kim Newman (born July 31, 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Journalism is the profession of writing or communicating formally employed by publications and broadcasters for the benefit of a particular Community of people Film review redirects here for the similar sounding Film revue please visit Revue#Film revues. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternate fictional versions of history. Horror fiction is broadly Fiction in any medium intended to scare unsettle or horrify the audience Tod Browning ( July 12, 1880 &ndash October 6, 1962) was an American motion picture Actor, director Dracula is a classic 1931 Horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Béla Lugosi as the title character Alternate history or alternative history is a subgenre of Speculative fiction (or Science fiction) and Historical fiction He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the BSFA award, and has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award. The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA for "superior achievement" in horror writing. The International Horror Guild (originally the International Horror Critics Guild was created in 1995 as a way to recognize the achievements of those who create in the field The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA annually presents four awards (though numbers have differed in previous years based on a vote of BSFA members and recently also members of The World Fantasy Awards are annual international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of Fantasy.

Newman was born in London and was raised in Aller, Somerset. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Aller is a village and Parish in Somerset, England, situated five Miles west of Somerton on the A372 road towards Bridgwater Somerset ( or) is a county in south west England The County town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county He was educated at Dr. Morgan's Grammar School in Bridgwater, and set his experimental semi-autobiographical novel Life's Lottery (1999) in a fictionalised version of the town called Sedgwater. Bridgwater in Somerset, England, is a Market town, the administrative centre of the Sedgemoor district, and the leading industrial Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) He studied English at the University of Sussex. The University of Sussex is a British Campus university which is situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, and is from Brighton Early in his career, Newman was a journalist on the City Limits listings magazine and Knave. A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends City Limits magazine was founded in 1981 in London by former staff members of the weekly London listings magazine Time Out, after Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally Knave magazine is a long-established British Pornographic magazine, published by Galaxy Publications.

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Non-fiction

Newman's first two books were both non-fiction and go some way to demonstrating his range. Ghastly Beyond Belief: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of Quotations (1985), co-written with his friend Neil Gaiman, is a light-hearted tribute to entertainingly bad prose in fantastic fiction. Neil Richard Gaiman (ˈgeɪmən (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of Science fiction and Fantasy short stories and Nightmare Movies: A critical history of the horror film, 1968-88 (1988) is a serious history of horror films.

Nightmare Movies was followed by Wild West Movies: Or How the West Was Found, Won, Lost, Lied About, Filmed and Forgotten (1990) and Millennium Movies: End of the World Cinema (1999). Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Newman's non-fiction also includes the BFI Companion to Horror (1996) and Horror: 100 Best Books (co-editor, 1988), which won a Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA for "superior achievement" in horror writing. The Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA for "superior achievement" in horror writing

Newman acts as one of several contributing editors to the UK film magazine Empire. Empire is a British Film Magazine published Monthly by Bauer Consumer Media. He also contributes to Rotten Tomatoes, Venue and Sight & Sound. Rotten Tomatoes is a Website devoted to reviews information and news of Movies. Venue is the what's on magazine for the Bristol and Bath areas of the UK Sight & Sound ( is a British monthly Film Magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI

Fiction

A recurring feature of Newman's fiction is his fondness for reinterpreting historical figures (particularly from the entertainment industry) and other authors' characters in new settings, either realistic alternate-history or outright fantasy. Some of these characters (e. g. Dracula) are easily recognised. Many more, particularly minor characters, are deliberately obscured and may be considered Easter eggs for perceptive readers. A virtual Easter egg is an intentional Hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, Book Such as the appearance of the American John Reid who just so happened to own a silver mine and who exported silver bullets to Great Britain in Anno Dracula (a nod to the Lone Ranger). The Lone Ranger is an American, long-running Old-time radio and early Television show created by George W Or the appearance of an American actor named Kent who would be cast as "Hercules" in an Italian production of the same name (apparantly a nod to both George Reeves and Steve Reeves [no relation] who played Superman and Hercules, respectively. George Reeves ( January 5, 1914 &ndash June 16, 1959) was an American Actor, best known for his role as Superman in the Stephen L Reeves ( January 21, 1926 &ndash May 1, 2000) was an American bodybuilder, Actor, and author Superman is a fictional Comic book Superhero widely considered to be one of the most recognized of such characters and an American Cultural icon Hercules is the Roman name for the Mythical Greek hero Heracles, son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmena. (In the novel Judgement of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959 aka Dracula Cha Cha Cha).

Novels

Newman's first published novel was The Night Mayor (1989), set in a virtual reality based on old black-and-white detective movies. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Virtual reality ( VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a Computer-simulated environment be it a real or imagined one In the same year, as "Jack Yeovil", he began contributing to a series of novels published by Games Workshop, set in the world of their Warhammer and Dark Future wargaming and role-playing games. The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game or Lord of the Rings SBG rather than Lord of the Rings when Warhammer Fantasy is a Fantasy setting created by Games Workshop, in which many games of that company are set the best known ones being Warhammer Dark Future is a 1988 Miniature wargame by Games Workshop. It is set in an alternate reality where the United States &mdashand indeed A wargame is a Game that simulates or represents a Military operation. A role-playing game ( RPG; often roleplaying game) is a Game in which the participants assume the roles of Fictional characters. Games Workshop's fiction imprint Black Flame returned the Dark Future books to print in 2006, publishing Demon Download, Krokodil Tears and an expanded, 250-page version of the short story "Route 666". Black Flame was an imprint of BL Publishing, the publishing arm of Games Workshop and a sister imprint to the Black Library and Solaris Books There are no plans for Newman to return to finish the series.

Newman's most famous novel is Anno Dracula, published in 1992. Anno Dracula is a 1992 novel by British writer Kim Newman. The book is an Alternate history novel that contains characters from multiple Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) The novel is set in 1888, during Jack the Ripper's killing spree — but a different 1888 to the one we know, in which Dracula succeeded in becoming the ruler of England. Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Jack the Ripper is an alias given to an unidentified Serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary Antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. In the novel, fictional characters — not only from Dracula, but also from other works of Victorian era fiction — appear alongside historical persons. Culture The Victorian fascination with novelty resulted in a deep interest in the relationship between modernity and cultural continuities One major character, the vampire Geneviève Dieudonné, had previously appeared (in a different setting) in his Warhammer novels. (Newman has stated there are three alternate versions of Geneviève: the Warhammer version, the Anno Dracula version, and a Diogenes Club version who appears in the Seven Stars collection of linked stories and The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club. )

Anno Dracula was followed by a series of novels and shorter works that followed the same alternative history, including The Bloody Red Baron (set in World War I), and Judgement of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959 (titled Dracula Cha Cha Cha in the UK). The Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman —named for Anno Dracula (1992 the series' first novel—is a work of Fantasy depicting an Alternate The Bloody Red Baron is a 1995 novel by British author Kim Newman. Judgment of Tears (titled Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha in Britain is a 1998 Novel by British writer Kim Newman Some of the short stories are available online; see below.

Other novels include Life's Lottery (1999), in which the protagonist's life story is determined by the reader's choices (an adult version of the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children's books), The Quorum (1994), Jago (1991), and Bad Dreams (1990). Life's Lottery is a Speculative fiction Novel by Kim Newman, published in 1999. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's Gamebooks first published by Bantam Books Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar)

He has written a Doctor Who novella, Time and Relative, which was published by Telos in 2001. Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The Telos Doctor Who novellas were a series of tie-in Novellas based on the long-running BBC Science fiction Television series Time and Relative is an original novella written by Kim Newman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Short stories

Newman is also a prolific writer of short stories; his first published story was "Dreamers", which appeared in Interzone in 1982. See Interzone (book for the story by William S Burroughs Interzone is a British fantasy and Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) His short story collections include The Original Dr. Shade, and Other Stories (1994), Famous Monsters (1995), Seven Stars (2000), Where the Bodies are Buried (2000), Unforgivable Stories (2000), The Man from the Diogenes Club (2006) and The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club (2007). Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. There is also Back in the USSA (1997), a collection of stories co-written with Eugene Byrne, set in an alternate history where the United States had a communist revolution in the early twentieth century and Russia didn't. Back in the USSA (ISBN 0-929480-84-8 is a collection of 7 short stories by Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman, which was published in 1997 by Mark V Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Eugene Byrne (born February 25 1959) is an English freelance Journalist and Fiction Writer. Alternate history or alternative history is a subgenre of Speculative fiction (or Science fiction) and Historical fiction The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending

Many of his stories--notably those collected in Seven Stars, The Man from the Diogenes Club and The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club--feature agents of the Diogenes Club, the gentlemen's club created by Arthur Conan Doyle for the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter". The Diogenes Club is a fictional Gentleman's club created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and featured in several Sherlock Holmes stories most notably " Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930 was an Anglo-Scottish Author most noted for his stories about the Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887 " The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter " one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 In Newman's stories, it is a cover for a top-secret establishment of the British government, described as "an institution that quietly existed to cope with matters beyond the purview of regular police and intelligence services".

One particular sequence focuses on the adventures during the 1970s of psychic investigator Richard Jeperson; the stories homage various aspects of '70s British culture through adventures reminiscent of '70s television series such as The Avengers and Department S. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. Richard Jeperson is a fictional 1970s Psychic Investigator created by British horror / Fantasy Author Kim Newman The Avengers was a British Television series featuring Secret agents in 1960s Britain. Department S was a British Espionage / Science fiction adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. (A version of the Diogenes Club also appears in the Anno Dracula series, complete with alternative version of Jeperson. The Diogenes Club series, conversely, sometimes includes alternative versions of characters who first appeared in the Anno Dracula series. )

The short story "Famous Monsters", in which a Martian left over from the invasion in H. Martians are the race of extraterrestrials from the HG Wells novel The War of the Worlds. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds gets a job in Hollywood, was included on an information package sent to Mars by a US-Russian probe in 1994. The War of the Worlds (1898 by H G Wells, is an early Science fiction Novel which describes an invasion of England by Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar)

Bibliography

Novels

As "Jack Yeovil"

External links

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