Paul Park

Paul Park (born 1954) is an American science fiction author and fantasy author. He lives in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children. He also teaches a Reading and Writing Science Fiction course at Williams College. He has also taught several times at the Clarion West Writing Workshop.

Writing career

Park appeared on the American science fiction scene in 1987 and quickly established himself as a writer of polished, if often grim, literary science fiction. His first work was the "Starbridge Chronicles" trilogy, set on a world with generations-long seasons much like Brian Aldiss' Helliconia trilogy. His critically acclaimed novels have since dealt with colonialism on alien worlds ("Coelestis"), Biblical ("Three Marys") and theosophical ("The Gospel of Corax") legends, a parallel world where magic works ("A Princess of Roumania" and its sequels, "The Tourmaline", "The White Tyger" and "The Hidden World"), and other topics. He has published short stories in "Omni Magazine", "Interzone" and other magazines.

Novels

*The Starbridge Chronicles
**"Soldiers of Paradise". New York: Arbor House, 1987. ISBN 0-87795-861-0
**"Sugar Rain". New York: Morrow, 1989. ISBN 1-55710-029-2
**"The Cult of Loving Kindness". New York: Morrow, 1991. ISBN 0-688-10574-2
* "Coelestis" (vt US "Celestis", 1995). London: HarperCollins, 1993, ISBN 0-00-224175-7
* "The Gospel of Corax". New York: Soho Press, 1996. ISBN 1-56947-061-8
* "Three Marys". Canton, OH: Cosmos Books, 2003. ISBN 1-58715-519-2
* A Princess of Roumania
**"A Princess of Roumania". New York: Tor, 2005. ISBN 0-7653-1096-1
**"The Tourmaline". New York: Tor, 2006. ISBN 0-7653-1441-X
**"The White Tyger". New York: Tor, 2007. ISBN 0-7653-1529-7
**"The Hidden World". New York: Tor, 2008. ISBN 0-7653-1668-4

Novellas

* "No Traveller Returns", Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-904619-03-7

Collections

* "If Lions Could Speak", Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, April 2002, ISBN 1-58715-512-5

Interviews

* [http://www.bookspotcentral.com/2005/10/on-the-spot-at-bookspotcentral-paul-park/ Interview with Paul Park] conducted by Jay Tomio for Fantasybookspot.com (October 2005)
*Science Fiction Weekly interview captured in [http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue424/interview.html April 2006]
*Infinity Plus interview captured in [http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intpp.htm April 2006]
*SFsite.com [http://www.sfsite.com/10b/pp138.htm 2002 interview]

External links

*isfdb name|id=Paul_Park|name=Paul Park
*Paul Park's website is at [http://www.sfwa.org/members/park/]
*SFsite.com review of [http://www.sfsite.com/10b/il138.htm "If Lions Could Speak and Other Stories"]
*SFsite.com review of [http://www.sfsite.com/02a/pr217.htm "A Princess of Roumania"]
*SFsite.com review of [http://www.sfsite.com/10b/tm234.htm "The Tourmaline"]