David Gerrold
Autor de The Man Who Folded Himself
Sobre El Autor
David Gerrold is one of the most popular science fiction writers working today. His first professional sale, the Star Trek episode "Trouble With Tribbles," won a Hugo Award. He has written for television, published more than forty books, and had columns in six different magazines. In 1995, his mostrar más novelette "The Martian Child" won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Gerrold lives in San Fernando, California, and teaches writing at Pepperdine University mostrar menos
Series
Obras de David Gerrold
Boarding the Enterprise: Transporters, Tribbles and the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek (Smart Pop… (2006) — Editor — 79 copias
The Far Side of the Sky: Jumping off the Planet ; Bouncing off the Moon ; Leaping to the Stars (2002) 35 copias
Fatal Distractions: 87 Of the Very Best Ways to Get Beaten, Eaten, Maimed, and Mauled on Your Pc/Book and Cd-Rom (1994) 7 copias
The Martian Child [short story] 5 copias
Worldcon 2015 Sampler 3 copias
Dancer In The Dark 3 copias
Chester 3 copias
How we saved the human race 2 copias
A Wish for Smish 2 copias
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 45, No. 11 & 12 [November/December 2021] — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Night Train To Paris 2 copias
Il giorno della vendetta - parte II 2 copias
A Covenent of Justice 1 copia
Encouter at Farpoint 1 copia
Rex 1 copia
Prima fermata: Luna 1 copia
Encontro em Farpoint Livro 1 1 copia
Little Horrors 1 copia
Superbestia (Deathbeast) 1 copia
Sampler 2015 1 copia
Hellhole 1 copia
The Emperor Redux 1 copia
F&SF Mailbag 1 copia
Fragments [Kindle Edition] 1 copia
Riding Janis (short story) 1 copia
The Patient Dragon 1 copia
Bubble And Squeak 1 copia
Ronni and Rod 1 copia
1986 1 copia
Ascensore Per La Luna 1 copia
Spiderweb 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly (2005) — Contribuidor — 993 copias
The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay that Became the Classic Star Trek Episode (1977) — Epílogo, algunas ediciones — 527 copias
Stepping Through the Stargate: Science, Archaeology and the Military in Stargate SG1 (2004) — Contribuidor — 103 copias
Nebula Awards 30: SFWA's Choices For The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year (Nebula Awards Showcase) (1980) — Contribuidor — 86 copias
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens: First Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy… (2005) — Contribuidor — 81 copias
Baker Street Irregulars: Thirteen Authors With New Takes on Sherlock Holmes (2017) — Contribuidor — 37 copias
Kong Unbound: The Cultural Impact, Pop Mythos, and Scientific Plausibility of a Cinematic Legend (2005) — Contribuidor — 22 copias
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January/February 2013, Vol. 124, Nos. 1 & 2 (2013) — Autor — 21 copias
King Kong Is Back!: An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape! (Smart Pop series) (2005) — Contribuidor — 18 copias
The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives on the H. G. Wells Classic (2005) — Contribuidor — 17 copias
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September/October 2016, Vol. 131, Nos. 3 & 4 (2016) — Contribuidor — 14 copias
Alternative Theologies: Parables for a Modern World (Alternatives Book 3) (2018) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Friedman, Jerrold David (name at birth)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1944-01-24
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Northridge, California, USA
- Educación
- San Fernando Valley State College
- Ocupaciones
- science fiction author
screenwriter - Organizaciones
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Hollywood Science Fiction Museum - Premios y honores
- E.E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (1979)
Robert A. Heinlein Award (2022)
Miembros
Debates
Humans join galactic society; go into debt from library database look-ups? en Name that Book (diciembre 2014)
Reseñas
Listas
Best Young Adult (1)
Nebula Award (1)
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 135
- También por
- 86
- Miembros
- 11,030
- Popularidad
- #2,140
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 175
- ISBNs
- 249
- Idiomas
- 9
- Favorito
- 20
While Hella's backdrop of, well, Hella is very interesting, it's not used beyond "Hella is bad for humans".
Gerrold spends a lot of time berating the trope of autistic people as dry, unfeeling automatons. His first blunder is that he writes his main character Kyle as a dry, unfeeling automaton. While he do sprinkle some emotion on the character through the first half of the book, by the time of a major event in the middle you have exactly zero empathy for the character to even care.
His second blunder is that he spends a lot of time mentioning something called "the noise". Besides calling it an implant a couple of times, he doesn't actually tell you what it is. So I'm going to tell you; it's a neuropathic brain implant that connects to the internet.
Which leads to the third blunder: Hella can't communicate with Earth. But apparently Kyle can connect to the internet on Earth with his implant. Yet nobody knows what's going on back home.
And then there's the fourth. The biggest one.
Everyone is bi. Nobody is really male or female. You're a dude and want to be pregnant? Go to the medics and swap out your penis with a fully functioning set of female reproductive organs. You're a woman and can't pull off those cargo shorts? Just grow a penis. Easy as that.
When Kyle gets a "boy friend", which is what Gerrold calls a boyfriend (and what the rest of us calls a male friend), Kyle literally says "Do you want me to be a girl? I used to be a girl. I can change back."
And people having multiple spouses as if the mormons took over the galaxy.
Gerrold tries to please everybody, and fails at everything.… (más)