Michael Shea (author)
Michael Shea was an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction author. His novel Nifft the Lean won the World Fantasy Award, as did his novella Growlimb. His work overlaps the science fiction and fantasy genres, e.g., thematic use of demons and aliens that act as endoparasites.
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Michael Shea was an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction author. His novel Nifft the Lean won the World Fantasy Award, as did his novella Growlimb. Shea’s work overlaps the science fiction and fantasy genres, e.g., thematic use of demons and aliens that act as endoparasites. He died unexpectedly on February 16, 2014. He was born to Irish parents in Los Angeles in 1946. He attended UCLA and Berkeley and hitch-hiked twice across the US and Canada. In 1978 he met his second wife, artist and author Lynn Cesar.
They had two children: Adele and Jacob. He held a variety of occupations, including instructor of languages, construction laborer, and night clerk in a Mission District flophouse. In 1979 Shea published the story \”The Angel of Death\”. This was followed in 1980 by \”The Autopsy\”, a story nominated for both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In their picaresque and unrelenting strangeness, Shea’s tales evoke Jack Vance and Lord Dunsany.
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