James Blaylock is an American fantasy writer, born in 1950 in Long Beach, California, and long associated with Orange County, where he has set many of his books and where he taught creative writing at Chapman University. He is known for a distinctive, humorous voice and is counted among the pioneers of steampunk, the Victorian-flavoured strand of science fiction; his Langdon St. Ives novels are steampunk adventures set in Victorian England. Much of his other work is present-day fantasy, sometimes called fabulism or magic realism, in which strange events break into ordinary California life. He studied English at California State University, Fullerton, and with his friends Tim Powers and K. W. Jeter was mentored by Philip K. Dick. Blaylock won the World Fantasy Award for short fiction in 1986 and again in 1997, and the Philip K. Dick Award in 1987 for his novel Homunculus.
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AwardPhilip K. Dick Award (1987) 1 AwardWorld Fantasy Award (1986) 1 AwardWorld Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction (1997) 1 Connections
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is an American fantasy author
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James Paul Blaylock (born September 20, 1950)
Awards
Blaylock's short story "Thirteen Phantasms" won the 1997 World Fantasy Award for best Short Fiction.
Awards [award]
"Paper Dragons" won the award in 1986.
Awards [award 2]
Homunculus won the Philip K. Dick award in 1987.
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is an American fantasy author
- Article categories: Category:20th-century American male novelists
In Genre: Steampunk, Lead [in-genre]
one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre of science fiction
Influenced By: Jules Verne, Lead [influenced-by]
Blaylock has cited Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens as his inspirations.
Influenced By: H. G. Wells, Lead [influenced-by]
Blaylock has cited Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens as his inspirations.
Influenced By: Robert Louis Stevenson, Lead [influenced-by]
Blaylock has cited Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens as his inspirations.
Influenced By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Lead [influenced-by]
Blaylock has cited Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens as his inspirations.
Influenced By: Charles Dickens, Lead [influenced-by]
Blaylock has cited Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens as his inspirations.
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