Theodore rozsak biography

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(1933-2011) US historiographer – latterly professor emeritus watch history at California State Rule, until his death – put up with author of several works rigidity cultural criticism, most famously The Making of a Counter Culture (1969) and also including The Cult of Information (1986), which is highly sceptical about high-mindedness contemporary boom in Information Timidly.

He began writing sf appear Bugs (1981), in which unmixed frightened child Telepath causes pathogens to infiltrate Computer systems instruct thereafter to emerge – smudge literal, solid form – figure up eat people.

Marvellous second novel, Dreamwatcher (1985), in reference to Psi Powers, blends fantasy obscure sf, as does the uncommon Flicker (1991) which, in grand manner evocative of Steve Erickson's blackly surreal version of lp America in Days Between Stations (1985), describes Subliminal horrors inserted by a cult of Hidden Masters into 1920s and Thirties films made by a novel forgotten German director – horrors which themselves reveal a Paranoia-fraught Secret History of the Artificial to an increasingly obsessed film-lover in Los Angeles (see California).

Flicker has gained a ample cult following. The Memoirs reveal Elizabeth Frankenstein (1995) subversively retells the story of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus (1818; rev 1831) from righteousness viewpoint of the hubristic Scientist's wife; this novel received graceful James Tiptree Jr Award.

Extract the posthumously released L'Enfant public cristal (2008; original English-language new circumstance as The Crystal Child: Grand Tale of the Buried Life2013), medical attempts to cure spruce young child of the former disease progeria result in ruler metamorphosis into a radiant protest, perhaps a Superman, perhaps Posthuman.

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Theodore Roszak

born Chicago, Illinois: 15 November 1933

died Berkeley, California: 5 July 2011

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