D. Harlan Wilson

D. Harlan Wilson
Born	September 3, 1971 (1971-09-03) (age 40) Michigan, United States
Occupation	Novelist & Professor
Nationality	American
Period	1999-Present
Genres	Irrealism, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Interstitial Fiction
Notable work(s)	Dr. Identity
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D. Harlan Wilson (born September 3, 1971 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American short-story writer and novelist whose body of work has been associated with the genres of irrealism, science fiction, fantasy, horror, bizarro fiction, megalofiction, splatterpunk, absurdism, literary fiction, ultraviolence, and postmodernism.^[1] He is the author of several books, and hundreds of his stories, essays, and flash fiction have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies in multiple languages.

Wilson is perhaps best known for his award-winning novel Dr. Identity and the subsequent Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance, both of which he has fancifully categorized as examples of "splattershtick," a form that bridges a metafictional, literary representation of ultraviolence with the silly, gimmicky realm of pop aesthetics. His writing intellectualizes the stupidity of pop culture in order to satirize western society and illustrate the degree to which reality has evolved into a cinematic nightmare.^[1]

An associate professor of English at Wright State University, Wilson received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University and two M.A. degrees, one in Science Fiction Studies from the University of Liverpool and one in English from the University of Massachusetts-Boston. In addition to writing fiction, he is a prolific reviewer and essayist and has published a book of science fiction criticism called Technologized Desire: Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction.

Wilson is the reviews editor of Extrapolation (journal) and the editor-in-chief of The Dream People. He lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Books

• The Kafka Effekt (2001)
• Stranger on the Loose (2003)
• Pseudo-City (2005)
• Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia: Book 1 of the Scikungfi Trilogy (2007) - Winner of the Wonderland Book Award
• Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Vulgaria (2008)
• Technologized Desire: Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction (2009)
• Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance (2009)
• They Had Goat Heads (2010)
• Codename Prague: Book 2 of the Scikungfi Trilogy (2011)
• The Kyoto Man: Book 3 of the Scikungfi Trilogy (Forthcoming)
• "Battle without Honor or Humanity: Vol. I" (Forthcoming)
• "Battle without Honor or Humanity: Vol. II" (Forthcoming)
• "Curd" (Forthcoming)
• Cultographies: They Live (Forthcoming)

Films

• The Cocktail Party (2006) - Co-written with director Brandon Duncan, this short, animated, rotoscoped film is a highly abstracted and philosophical (post)postmodern meditation on the narcissistic themes of consumerism, redundant self-analysis and rampant hypocrisy. The film won several awards, including a Platinum Remi Award (WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival 2007), Grand Jury Award Best of Show (Fear No Film Festival 2007), Best Student Film (Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee 2007), and Best Animation (ACE Film Festival 2007).

Trivia

Wilson is a direct descendent of James Fenimore Cooper.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Interviews

External links

• Official Website
• Literary Journal
• Select Interviews
• Book Reviews
• D. Harlan Wilson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Name	Wilson, D. Harlan
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Date of birth	September 3, 1971
Place of birth	Michigan, United States
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