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| User: | ratmmjess (554119) 
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
I write encyclopedias.
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| Name: | Jess Nevins |
| Website: | Fantastic Victoriana |
| Location: | Huntsville, Texas, United States |
| Bio: | Jess Nevins was found on the steps of Boston City Hospital approximately nine months after Elvis, in his bloated/diaper-wearing phase, toured through Boston. This coincidence has not gone overlooked.
I'm the author of the World Fantasy Award-finalist Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, a guide to the characters and concepts of 19th century world literature, and The Pulp Magazine Holdings Directory, an index of library holdings of pulp magazines (essentially, which issues of which pulp magazines are held in which American, British, and European libraries). I've also written the International Horror Guild Award-finalist Heroes & Monsters: The Unofficial Guide to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and its sequel A Blazing World: The Second Unofficial Guide to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. My next book will be Impossible Territories (MonkeyBrain Books, 2008), the companion to the third in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series, Black Dossier. After that will come The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes (MonkeyBrain, Spring 2009, maybe), a 750,000+ word encyclopedia with descriptive entries on 5000 characters from popular culture of 1902-1945, including pulps, slicks, series fiction, comic strips, radio serials, movie serials, and international series fiction. I'm also working on becoming a published novelist, but that probably won't happen for a couple of years. I also write semi-regularly for No Fear of the Future; a somewhat typical example of my work there is An Alternate History of Chinese Science Fiction, which was a finalist for the Sidewise Award.
I am a reference librarian at a Texas university, the husband of ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) aliciag, and Alpha Male and foodgiver to Tuco (chihuahua), Daisy (hound/dawg mix), Woody & Princess (cats), and a colony of fancy rats. |
| Pictures: | fewer than 10 public |
| Interests: | 72: adventure!, alan moore, alternate histories, alton brown, arthur machen, aubrey beardsley, avram davidson, bulwer-lytton, china mieville, chow yun fat, crossovers, dark continent, eddie izzard, fancy rats, farscape, flashman, frisky dingo, george sanders, good eats, grant morrison, guy gavriel kay, harvey birdman, hoodtown, husker du, iain banks, jane austen, john coulthart, john crowley, john picacio, jonathan carroll, ken hite, kenneth hite, league of extraordinary gentlemen, life on mars, lucha libre, m. r. james, mary gentle, matt howarth, monsieur zenith the albino, mst3k, my bloody valentine, neal asher, neal stephenson, order of the stick, p.g. wodehouse, patrick o'brian, pulp primates, pulps, ratmm, rats, replacements, robot chicken, rome, rpgs, six-gun gorilla, spirit of the century, stanley weyman, steampunk, steven erikson, sugar, takashi murakami, terry pratchett, the jam, thomas burke, venture brothers, victoriana, warren ellis, weeping gorilla, wodehouse, wold newton universe, zenith the albino, zheng he |
| Schools: | Winchester High School - Winchester, MA (1981 - 1984)
Bates College - Lewiston, ME (1985 - 1988)
Bowling Green State University - Bowling Green, OH (1993 - 1995)
Simmons College - Boston, MA (1996 - 1997)
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