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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
I write encyclopedias.
Created on 2002-05-09 07:53:58 (#554119), last updated 2009-10-29
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Basic Info| Name: | Jess Nevins |
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| Location: | Riverside, California, United States |
| Website: | Fantastic Victoriana |
BioJess 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, its sequel A Blazing World: The Second Unofficial Guide to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and the third book in the series, Impossible Territories (MonkeyBrain Books, August 2008), the companion to the third in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series, Black Dossier. I also wrote the introductions to the Ann & Jeff Vandermeer anthology Steampunk and to the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology Paper Cities.
Sometime soon will come The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes (2010? 2011?), a 750,000 word encyclopedia with descriptive entries on over 6000 series characters from global popular culture of 1902-1945, including pulps, slicks, series fiction, comic strips, radio serials, movie serials, and international series fiction. (A somewhat typical range of characters from the book is here). After that will come The Encyclopedia of Golden Age Detectives (2012?), a 300,000 word encyclopedia of detectives appearing from 1902 to 1945 in novels, pulps, slicks, radio serials, and international fiction. After that will come The Victorians For Freshmen (2013?). 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. Finally, my story "The Student and the Rats" will be appearing in the "Clockwork Jungle" issue of Shimmer.
I am a reference librarian at the University of California at Riverside, the husband of Alicia, father of Henry Ian, and Alpha Male and foodgiver to Tuco (chihuahua).
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, its sequel A Blazing World: The Second Unofficial Guide to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and the third book in the series, Impossible Territories (MonkeyBrain Books, August 2008), the companion to the third in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series, Black Dossier. I also wrote the introductions to the Ann & Jeff Vandermeer anthology Steampunk and to the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology Paper Cities.
Sometime soon will come The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes (2010? 2011?), a 750,000 word encyclopedia with descriptive entries on over 6000 series characters from global popular culture of 1902-1945, including pulps, slicks, series fiction, comic strips, radio serials, movie serials, and international series fiction. (A somewhat typical range of characters from the book is here). After that will come The Encyclopedia of Golden Age Detectives (2012?), a 300,000 word encyclopedia of detectives appearing from 1902 to 1945 in novels, pulps, slicks, radio serials, and international fiction. After that will come The Victorians For Freshmen (2013?). 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. Finally, my story "The Student and the Rats" will be appearing in the "Clockwork Jungle" issue of Shimmer.
I am a reference librarian at the University of California at Riverside, the husband of Alicia, father of Henry Ian, and Alpha Male and foodgiver to Tuco (chihuahua).
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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, girl genius, 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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