- John Baxter (author)
John Martin Baxter (born 1939) is an Australian-born writer, journalist, and film-maker.
Baxter has lived in Britain and the United States as well as in his native
Sydney . He began writing science fiction in the early 1960s. He was Visiting Professor atHollins College in Virginia in 1975-1976. He has written a number of short stories and novels in that genre and a book about SF in the movies, as well as editing collections of Australian science fiction. ["The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", 1995, edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls, p. 98.] Baxter has also written a large number of other works dealing with the movies, including biographies of film personalities. His own films have included documentaries. For a number of years in the sixties, he was active in theSydney Film Festival but resigned from a key post due to conflicts of views. [http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2100/252/2/02WholeThesis.pdf] Some of his books have been translated into various languages, including Japanese and Chinese.Publications
Novels
* "The Black Yacht", 1982 (co-author; horror story)
* "Bidding"
* "The Hermes Fall", 1978 (about a possible collision of the asteroid Hermes and the earth)
* "The Off-Worlders", 1966 (about a planet where superstition rules)Edited collections
* "The Second Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction", 1971
*"The Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction", 1968Nonfiction
* "We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light", 2006
* "A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict", 2002
* "George Lucas: A Biography ", 1999
* "Woody Allen: A Biogrpahy", 1998
* "Bunuel", 1998
* "Stanley Kubrick: A Biography", 1997
* "De Niro: A Biography", 2003
* "Filmstruck: Australia at the Movies. ", 1986
* "The Hollywood Exiles", 1976
* "King Vidor", 1976
* "The Fire Came by: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion", 1976
* "Stunt; the Story of the Great Movie Stunt Men ", 1974
* "Sixty Years of Hollywood", 1973
* "An Appalling Talent: Ken Russell", 1973
* "The Cinema of Josef von Sternberg", 1971
* "The Australian Cinema", 1970
* "Science Fiction in the Cinema", 1970
* "Hollywood in the Thirties", 1968Filmography
* "The Time Guardian", 1987
Internet links
* http://www.chozenbooks.com/home/johnbaxterbio.htm, with an extensive bibliography
* http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/john-baxter/References
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