BRUCE BOSTON

'Bruce Boston' (born 1943) is an American speculative fiction writer and poet who was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California. He received a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, 1965, and an M.A., 1967. He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1961 to 2001, where he worked in a variety of occupations, including computer programmer, college professor (literature and creative writing, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, California), technical writer, book designer, gardener, movie projectionist, retail clerk, and furniture mover. He currently lives in Ocala, Florida, with his wife, writer-artist Marge Simon, whom he married in 2001.
Generally considered one of the leading poets in science fiction, fantasy, and horror, Boston has won the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry a record seven times: for Best Long Poem in 1989 and 1999, and for Best Short Poem in 1985, 1988, 1994, 1996, and 2001, and the Asimov's Readers' Award for poetry a record five times: 1990, 1994, 1997, 2003, and 2005. He has also received a Pushcart Prize for fiction, 1976, the Bram Stoker Award for his poetry collections ''Pitchblende'', 2003, and ''Shades Fantastic'', 2006, and the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, 1999. His collaborative poem with Robert Frazier, "Return to the Mutant Rain Forest[1]," received first place in the 2006 Locus Online Poetry Poll for Best All-Time Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Poem.
Though best known for his poetry, Boston has also published more than a hundred short stories and the novels ''Stained Glass Rain''[2] and ''The Guardener's Tale'' [3]. Both his fiction and poetry exhibit a wide variety in styles and subjects. Writing in ''The Washington Post'', Paul Di Filippo described his collection ''Masque of Dreams'' as containing "nearly two dozen brilliant stories ranging across all emotional and narrative terrains." Reviewing ''Stained Glass Rain'' for ''Tangent'', Howard V. Hendrix called it "probably the best novel yet written about the sixties and its drug culture."

Contents

Bibiliography

Novels

Novelettes

Fiction and Poetry Collections

Fiction Collections

Poetry Collections

External Links

Bibiliography

Novels

★ ''Stained Glass Rain''. Ocean View, 1993, Wildside, 2003

★ ''The Guardener's Tale''. Sam's Dot Publishing, 2007

Novelettes

★ ''After Magic''. Eotu, 1990, Dark Regions, 1999

★ ''Houses''. Talisman, 1991

Fiction and Poetry Collections

★ ''The Complete Accursed Wives''. Talisman/Dark Regions, 2000

★ ''Masque of Dreams''. Wildside, 2001

★ ''Bruce Boston: Short Stories, Volume 1''. Fictionwise, 2003

★ ''Bruce Boston: Short Stories, Volume 2''. Fictionwise, 2003

Fiction Collections

★ ''Jackbird''. BPW&P, 1976

★ ''She Comes When You're Leaving''. BPW&P, 1982

★ ''Skin Trades,'' Chris Drumm Books, 1988

★ ''Hypertales & Metafictions''. Chris Drumm, 1990

★ ''Night Eyes''. Chris Drumm, 1993

★ ''Flashing the Dark''. Sam's Dot Publishing, 2006

Poetry Collections

★ ''All the Clock Are Melting''. Velocities, 1984

★ ''Alchemical Texts''. Ocean View, 1985

★ ''Nuclear Futures''. Velocities, 1987

★ ''Time''. Titan, 1988

★ ''The Nightmare Collector''. 2AM Publications, 1989

★ ''Faces of the Beast''. Starmont House, 1990

★ ''Short Circuits''. Ocean View, 1991

★ ''Cybertexts''. Talisman, 1991

★ ''Chronicles of the Mutant Rain Forest'' (with Robert Frazier). Horror's Head Press, 1992

★ ''Accursed Wives''. Night Visions, 1993

★ ''Specula: Selected Uncollected Poems, 1968-1993''. Talisman, 1993

★ ''Sensuous Debris: Selected Poems, 1970-1995''. Dark Regions, 1995

★ ''Conditions of Sentient Life''. Gothic Press, 1996

★ ''Cold Tomorrows''. Gothic Press, 1998

★ ''Dark Tales & Light''. Dark Regions, 1999

★ ''Pavane for a Cyber-Princess''. Miniature Sun, 2001

★ ''White Space''. Dark Regions, 2001

★ ''Quanta: Award Winning Poems''. Miniature Sun, 2001

★ ''Night Smoke'' (with Marge Simon), Miniature Sun & Quixsilver, 2002

★ ''She Was There for Him the Last Time''. Miniature Sun, 2002

★ ''Head Full of Strange''. CyberPulp, 2003

★ ''Pitchblende''. Dark Regions, 2003

★ ''Etiquette with Your Robot Wife''. Talisman, 2005

★ ''Shades Fantastic''. Gromagon Press, 2006

★ ''The Nightmare Collection''. Doorways, forthcoming

External Links

★ Bruce Boston's website

★ Bruce Boston at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

★ Interview by John Amen at ''The Pedestal Magazine''

★ Interview by JoSelle Vanderhoft at ''Strange Horizons''