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Mike Falcon Member |
posted February 15, 2003 04:43 PM
  
Hey Steve did you ever write any comics stories? I bought a bunch of Unexpected issues from eBay amd one of them (#206) had a story in it called "The Iron Beast" written by a Steven Utley. Is this you? Thanks! IP: Logged |
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India Ink Member |
posted February 15, 2003 05:36 PM
Steve has said before that he did write some comic book stories. So this probably is him. IP: Logged |
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NecessaryImpurity Member |
posted February 15, 2003 05:56 PM
Here's what the GCD has on our friend Mr Utley: Unknown Soldier #221 Nov '78 IP: Logged |
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Steven Utley Member |
posted February 15, 2003 07:10 PM
Yes, Mike, "The Iron Beast" is one of mine. And many thanks to the impure one for posting the list of my funny-book credits. All these years, I hadn't known that I'm in UNKNOWN SOLDIER # 256 -- I somehow missed it back in 1981. Pardon me while I go look for a copy on sale. IP: Logged |
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Mike Falcon Member |
posted February 15, 2003 07:43 PM
Thanks to everyone that responded. Mr. Utley, your my idol! IP: Logged |
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kid colt Member |
posted February 15, 2003 10:23 PM
Hey, Steven, I'm in the process of selling a lot of books now. I have Unknown Soldier #256. E-mail me your address and I'll send it to you free. You should definitely have a copy. IP: Logged |
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Mike Falcon Member |
posted February 16, 2003 01:30 AM
Hey Kid Colt, I'm looking for Unknown Soldier comics. Do you have any more? Thanks! IP: Logged |
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Matthewwave Member |
posted February 16, 2003 03:43 AM
kid colt, Now you are MY hero! That was very nice of you to do! Matthew ------------------ IP: Logged |
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kid colt Member |
posted February 16, 2003 01:15 PM
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daytripper Member |
posted February 16, 2003 07:06 PM
Steven also has published some science fiction stories and poetry in the sf magazines. I haven't seen any books by him, but I suspect that is because of my pet peeve, which is that there are no science fiction book stores in the Louisville area. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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BillNolan Member |
posted February 16, 2003 07:16 PM
http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/utley/utley_bio.html - Bill IP: Logged |
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CountJerkula Member |
posted February 16, 2003 10:55 PM
This is at least the third thread entitled "Question for Steven Utley" I've seen in the past year, including the one that I posted about a year ago. It seems that every few months, some of us come across a work by Mr. Utley (may I call you Steven?) and express our appreciation. One wonders what Mr. Utley is up to lately, and if a ground swell of support from the DCMBs may be enough to persuade him to try writing another issue in the future? IP: Logged |
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Steven Utley Member |
posted February 17, 2003 10:20 AM
I answer to "Mr. Utley," "Steven," "Steve," and "Lonely, sailor?" I don't know if my story collection, GHOST SEAS (Ticonderoga Press, 1997) can now be had for love or money, but Anamnesis Press still has my two collections of light (actually, vaporous) verse, THIS IMPATIENT APE (1998) and CAREER MOVES OF THE GODS (2000). This coming April, Golden Gryphon Press will release CUSTER'S LAST JUMP & OTHER COLLABORATIONS, about one third of which consists of two novelettes and a short story co-written by Howard Waldrop and myself; the remainder of the volume is given over to Howard's joint efforts with Bruce Sterling, Leigh Kennedy, George R.R. Martin, and others. These past ten years, I've been working -- sporadically or deliberately, as you may choose to describe it -- on a series of stories which I hope eventually to see collected as SILURIAN TALES. (I've already had nibbles from publishers here and abroad.) My signature contains links to four of the stories, three are reprinted in Gardner Dozois' YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION anthologies (11th, 14th, and 18th annual editions), and the remainder are unevenly distributed through back issues of ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION and THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. IP: Logged |
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Steven Utley Member |
posted February 17, 2003 10:21 AM
Dang. Forget to add the signature. ------------------ Discuss "The Greatest DC Stories Ever Published" and other trade paperbacks at http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/files/Forum21/HTML/000364.html Hey Kids! Read my deathless prose online! It's FREE! It's FUN! (well, it's free, anyway) Beyond the Sea The Real World The Despoblado Five Miles From Pavement IP: Logged |
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CountJerkula Member |
posted February 17, 2003 10:32 PM
Thank you Steven! IP: Logged |
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Old Dude Member |
posted February 19, 2003 12:45 AM
Hey! I have Mystery in Space #115 and The Unexpected #206 at home. They also contain early stories by Mike W. Barr (that's why I happen to have them). I'll have to read them when I get home. IP: Logged |
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Old Dude Member |
posted February 19, 2003 11:26 PM
Here I am 23 hours later, and I have indeed read Mr. Utley's stories in Mystery in Space and Unexpected. "The Iron Beast" was extremely short, a piece on the folly of war. The other was my favorite. It was very remniscent of the old Lee/Ditko tales in Amazing Adult Fantasy, Tales of Suspense, etc.: Benevolent aliens travel from planet to planet, plucking one inhabitant from each as a sample of the populus to decide whether that world at large deserves the gifts they bring. The earthling they pick does not reflect well on the rest of us. The story ends in keeping with the pre-FF Marvel fantasy stories. And to top it off, who does that lucky son-of-a-gun Utley get as an artist to illustrate his story? STEVE DITKO!!! Well done, Steven! IP: Logged |
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Steven Utley Member |
posted February 20, 2003 04:33 PM
Why, thank you, Dude. The GCD list (by the way) omits my story in the first (and only) issue of DC's Army at War, a one-pager in the Mojo Press collection, Wild West Show, and the 3-D Land Before Time funny book Doug Potter and I did for MCA and Kitchen Sink (moments before the latter imploded) in the mid-1990s. IP: Logged |
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KOBE27 Member |
posted February 21, 2003 12:34 AM
Hey, Steven, I'm afraid I'm unfamiliar to the four stories you provide links to. Are they all "Silurian" tales? The only "Silurian" tales I've read so far are "There and Then" and "The Wind Over the World", both from Asimov's. (Though in the Honorable Mentions for the Dozois anthology from 96 I see "The Age of Mud and Slime" and "A Silurian Tale". I'm assuming the first one's a Silurian as well.) IP: Logged |
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Steven Utley Member |
posted February 21, 2003 05:24 PM
Yes, "The Age of Mud and Slime" and the four stories listed in my signature are part of SILURIAN TALES. Another story -- 16th in the series -- will appear in the August 2003 issue of ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION. IP: Logged |
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Mike Falcon Member |
posted February 25, 2003 12:05 AM
quote: Hey Kid Colt, I tried to e-mail you my list but it the e-mail came back to me as "undeliveriable". So I'm posting a copy here. Thanks! Hi! Sorry this took so long. Here's my want list: IP: Logged |
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Steven Utley Member |
posted February 25, 2003 06:22 PM
And did my e-mail about that issue of THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER get through, kidcolt? IP: Logged |
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KOBE27 Member |
posted February 25, 2003 09:06 PM
Hey, steven, I finally finished the four stories from your links (I'm usually faster, but now and again real life keeps butting in, you know the drill). Wonderful stuff. (Though I liked the three from SCIFI.COM better than the one in Revolution SF). I'll reread "There and Then" and "The Wind Over the World" tonight (before that perky real life remembers me). Digging through my Asimov's collection I found a few more of your stories: "Edge of the Wind", "Living It", "The Country Doctor" and "Now That We Have Each Other". None of them sound like "Silurian" tales. Is there a list somewhere with all the Silurian stories? IP: Logged |
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Mike Falcon Member |
posted February 26, 2003 12:50 PM
BUMP! IP: Logged |
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Steven Utley Member |
posted February 26, 2003 04:08 PM
Thanks for the kind words about the stories, KOBE27. Below is a list of the Silurian tales written to date, arranged more or less in the order in which they should appear on the contents page of a (thus far, purely hypothetical) collection. The stories have been published all out of order because I wrote them as they occurred to me -- all out of order. “Beyond the Sea,” REVOLUTION SF, 2002 “Walking in Circles,” ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION, January 2002 “The Age of Mud and Slime,” ASIMOV’S, March 1996 “The Wind Over the World,” ASIMOV’S, October-November 1996; reprinted in THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 14TH ANNUAL EDITION, edited by Gardner Dozois (St. Martin’s Press, 1997) “Cloud by van Gogh,” THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, December 2000 “Half a Loaf,” ASIMOV’S, January 2001 “Chain of Life,” ASIMOV’S, November 2000 “Foodstuff,” FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, February 2002 “The Real World,” SCI FICTION, 2000; reprinted in THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 18TH ANNUAL EDITION, edited by Gardner Dozois (St. Martin’s Press, 2001) “A Silurian Tale,” ASIMOV’S, May 1996 “Treading the Maze,” ASIMOV’S, February 2002 “There and Then,” ASIMOV’S, November 1993; reprinted in THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 11TH ANNUAL EDITION, edited by Gardner Dozois (St. Martin’s Press, 1994), and TIME MACHINES, edited by Bill Adler, Jr. (Carroll and Graf, 1997) “The Despoblado,” SCI FICTION, 2000 “Exile,” ASIMOV’S, August 2003 “The World Without,” ASIMOV’S, July 2001 “Five Miles From Pavement,” SCI FICTION, 2001 IP: Logged |
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