Damon Knight

Biography

Damon Knight was an American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan. His forte was short stories and he is widely acknowledged as having been a master of the genre. He was a member of the Futurians, an early organization of the most prominent SF writers of the day. He founded the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA), the primary writers' organization for genre writers, as well as the Milford Writers workshop and co-founded the Clarion Writers Workshop. He edited the notable Orbit anthology series, and received the Hugo and SFWA Grand Master award. The award was later renamed in his honor. He was married to fellow writer Kate Wilhelm.

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Books

Will the Real Hieronymus Bosch Please Stand Up?
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 32,620. Language: English. Published: May 16, 2021 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Art history » Renaissance
Art history: An in-depth look at the fantastical 1500's Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch.
Faking Out the Reader and It All Begins with Characters
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,950. Language: English. Published: March 13, 2021 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Bonus! Two chapbooks on writing from the master. Faking Out the Reader focuses on using "head fakes" in writing for delightful results. It All Begins with Characters is a brief masterclass on how to create the best characters. Both of these were originally published in Pulphouse Publishing's "Writer's Chapbook Series" (#27 and #37, respectively).
Charles Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 62,480. Language: English. Published: January 24, 2021 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Body, mind, & spirit » Ancient mysteries & controversial knowledge, Nonfiction » Biography » Other biographies
*With an introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller.* Charles Fort devoted his life to attacking one of the modern world's most sacred cows: traditional science, with all its authority and all its presuppositions.
Turning Points: Essays on the Art of Science Fiction
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 116,520. Language: English. Published: January 20, 2021 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight edits and contributes to this incredible collection of essays on writing, reading, and the nature of science fiction, written by all the greatest science fiction writers ever..
One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 79,120. Language: English. Published: January 18, 2021 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
One of science fiction's preeminent writers for more than forty years, Damon Knight has always been considered a master of the short story.
Late Knight Edition
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 46,230. Language: English. Published: January 16, 2021 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
A time travel expedition through the stories of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight. Here are six of his stories and two essays, including a story never before published. Includes Damon's analysis of various definitions of Science Fiction, an interesting discussion for science fiction writers.
Better Than One
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 18,510. Language: English. Published: January 12, 2021 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
In their only book collaboration, two of science fictions most beloved, award-winning, married writers tackle the same science fiction story premise to get two incredibly different results, and reminisce about the writing process and their lives together.
God's Nose
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 39,230. Language: English. Published: January 7, 2021 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight selects some of his favorite stories
Three Novels
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 69,000. Language: English. Published: January 5, 2021 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
An excellent collection of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's always-excellent stories--three short novels in this case: Rule Golden--what if the Golden Rule were enforced in reverse by some force--the bad things you do to others are done to you? Natural State--are cities doomed by genetic engineering? The Dying Man--what would it be like to be immortal...
Rule Golden and Other Stories
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 131,450. Language: English. Published: January 4, 2021 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Another excellent collection of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's always-excellent stories--five novellas in this case, generally circling around "the great unsolved problem of politics: how to keep the bastards from grinding you down..
Masters of Evolution
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 31,980. Language: English. Published: January 3, 2021 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
SHOWDOWN WITH MONSTERS! Alvah Gustad was typical of New York City's twenty million citizens.
World Without Children and The Earth Quarter
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 57,030. Language: English. Published: December 29, 2020 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Two science fiction novels of tomorrow World Without Children: When humans can live for thousands of years, will it doom itself to extinction? The Earth Quarter: Why did the aliens on a remote planet keep all the humans locked inside a section of the city? Humans are used to be the top dog wherever they are--what are they going to do about it?
The Sun Saboteurs
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 38,140. Language: English. Published: December 27, 2020 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Why did the aliens on a remote planet keep all the humans locked inside a section of the city? Humans are used to be the top dog wherever they are--what are they going to do about it? (Also published as "The Earth Quarter.".
The Best of Damon Knight
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 108,330. Language: English. Published: December 20, 2020 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
The best short stories of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight, who was best known for his short stories, filled with sardonic wit and unusual adventure--so this is a collection of the best of the best of the best. 'Nuff said.
Turning On
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 53,840. Language: English. Published: December 19, 2020 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Another excellent collection of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's stories
Off Center
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 46,760. Language: English. Published: December 19, 2020 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
A collection of five short stories & novels from a SFWA Grandmaster
In Deep
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 60,040. Language: English. Published: December 8, 2020 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
An excellent collection of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's stories
Far Out
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 81,220. Language: English. Published: December 6, 2020 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight was primarily known for his short stories, and this is his first collection of his finest stories.
Humpty Dumpty: An Oval
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 79,170. Language: English. Published: December 4, 2020 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
A bullet shatters reality... a surreal voyage and NYTimes Notable Book
A for Anything
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 72,800. Language: English. Published: December 3, 2020 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
What would happen if someone invented a machine that could create an exact duplicate of anything? That is the simple but remarkable premise of Damon Knight's classic 1959 novel, _A for Anything._ "The Gismo," as the machine is known, seems like it will end poverty and need forever. But of course, things are not that simple.
Why Do Birds
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 74,060. Language: English. Published: November 26, 2020 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
In the 21st century, Ed Stone says he's been in suspended animation since the 1930s--put there by aliens who have sent him on a mission: convince the nations of the world to build a massive vault, and put all the billions of humanity into suspended animation to survive the Earth's impending destruction. Strangest of all: Everybody believes him.
The Man in the Tree
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 93,470. Language: English. Published: November 22, 2020 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Gene Anderson, poet, millionaire, circus freak--and can grab things from other universes
Mind Switch
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 49,590. Language: English. Published: November 21, 2020 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
A zoo acquires a new specimen: "Fritz", a biped from "Brecht's planet." Fritz is intelligent, and his keepers treat him with a mix of courtesy and disdain; he is kept in a display with another (presumably female) biped and the two are required to work for a living, transcribing tapes made by explorers to their planet.
The Rithian Terror
Price: $3.99 USD. Language: English. Published: November 15, 2020 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
A psychological thriller that follows an Earth security officer in the future who is racing against time to locate an alien spy. This is one of the first books to feature a surveillance drone. In the year 2521, the xenophobic Earth is the dominant power in a Galactic empire, with a policy of ruthlessly conquering or undermining other alien races it encounters.
Beyond the Barrier
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 53,410. Language: English. Published: November 9, 2020 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
A physics professor begins to doubt that he is a human being. He imagines that he may have been sent from another world to rescue Earth... or perhaps to destroy it? Solving the mystery takes him far into the future...
Hell's Pavement
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 69,070. Language: English. Published: October 30, 2020 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Republishing all of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's books, in conjunction with the author's estate - see all of Damon Knight's books from ReAnimus Press! Anti-social behavior is "cured"? by giving everyone an "analogue", a mental imprint of an authority figure that intervenes whenever violent or otherwise harmful acts are contemplated.
Creating Short Fiction
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 62,670. Language: English. Published: January 4, 2017 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Literacy » Composition & creative writing
The classic guide to writing short fiction - Revised & Expanded 3rd ed.
A Reasonable World
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 61,450. Language: English. Published: October 25, 2016 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » High tech
Sequel to CV and The Observers. After invading Sea Venture, Earth's largest ocean habitat, the Symbionts have infected the bodies of both humans and animals. Now, people become smarter—or they die. Violence is punished by instant execution from within. But there are those who would turn back the clock—to prevent a reasonable world.
The Observers
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 76,420. Language: English. Published: October 25, 2016 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » High tech
The alien plague returns, and CV is part of the sinister solution.
CV
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 57,170. Language: English. Published: October 25, 2016 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » High tech
The largest sea vessel ever built — and a deadly arena! Book One of the CV series (followed by The Observers and A Reasonable World.)
In Search of Wonder
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 151,460. Language: English. Published: October 22, 2016 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Literacy » Composition & creative writing
The premier book of SF insight for all SF readers and writers.
The World and Thorinn
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 71,320. Language: English. Published: June 14, 2016 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
(4.00 from 1 review)
Poor lame Thorinn is thrown into a well by his father to appease the rumbling gods, and cursed to Go Down... and down he goes, breaking through floors, ceilings and walls into amazing new worlds. "A brilliant book by an excellent writer." —Goodreads
The Futurians
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 67,640. Language: English. Published: January 16, 2015 by ReAnimus Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Nonfiction » History » Biography
The history of the brilliant Futurians—Asimov, Blish, Pohl, et al.—told by an insider. Fully illustrated.

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