Edward Bryant

Edward Bryant studied at University of Wyoming and William Cullen Bryant High School. The recorded working language is American English and English. The field of work recorded is literary activity, science fiction and science fiction literature. Distinctions recorded are Nebula Award for Best Short Story.

• Birth Name — Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. • Born — 27 August 1945 • Birthplace — White Plains, New York, United States • Died — 10 February 2017 • Place of death — Denver, Colorado, United States • Occupation — Writer • Education — University of Wyoming • Genre — * Science fiction • horror • Notable Works — CINNABAR, PARTICLE THEORY

• Illustration — Ed Bryant in 1989 Bryant was born in White Plains, New York, but raised on a cattle ranch in Wyoming. He attended school in Wheatland, Wyoming, and received his MA in English from the University of Wyoming in 1968. During the 1950s his uncle, a rodeo star, encouraged his love of film. This perhaps ultimately led to his occasional work in screenplays and as an actor. He was in the films The Laughing Dead (1988) and Ill Met by Moonlight (1994). His writing career began in 1968 with his attendance at the Clarion Workshop. At the beginning of his career he developed an association with Harlan Ellison, which led to collaborative efforts such as the novel Phoenix Without Ashes, based on Ellison's pilot script for The Starlost. He won two Nebula Awards for his short stories, "Stone" (1978) and "giANTS" (1979). He was mostly known as a writer of short fiction; however, he also wrote poetry, nonfiction, reviews, criticism, and edited an e-zine. His short horror story "Dark Angel", which appeared in Kirby McCauley's anthology Dark Forces, featured modern-day witch Angela Black. She reappears as the narrator of Bryant's short novel Fetish. When Bryant moved to Denver in 1972, he founded the Northern Colorado Writers Workshop, which continues today, and has produced a number of notable writers, including Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem, John Dunning, Wil McCarthy, Bruce Holland Rogers, Dan Simmons, and Connie Willis. Bryant was a senior editor of Wormhole Books. In addition, he facilitated a number of other writing workshops over the years for writers ranging in skill and experience from amateur to professional. Edward Bryant served as Toastmaster for Denvention II, the 1981 Worldcon, as well as World Fantasy Convention, ArmadilloCon, TusCon, and Death Equinox. He was Master of Ceremonies at the 1994 World Horror Convention, Special Guest in 1996, and Chair in 2000.

• Illustration — Bryant (right) with George R. R. Martin (left) in November 2016 at TusCon in Tucson, Arizona. In 2010, various writers & editors including Melanie Tem and Ellen Datlow set up a Crowd-funding page to help Bryant deal with financial emergencies brought on by his ongoing fight against the effects of Type 1 diabetes. Bryant died at his home in Colorado on February 10, 2017, after a long illness. He was 71.

• Phoenix Without Ashes (1975, with Harlan Ellison). An adaptation of Harlan Ellison's pilot script for The Starlost

• Wild Cards series: • Bantam Books #1. Wild Cards (1987). Story "Down Deep" (with Leanne C. Harper) • Bantam Books #3. Jokers Wild (1987). Segments with the character "Sewer Jack" • Bantam Books #4. Aces Abroad (1988). Story "Down in the Dreamtime" • Bantam Books #5. Down and Dirty (1988). Story "The Second Coming of Buddy Holly" • Bantam Books #11. Dealer's Choice (1992). Segments with the character "Wyungare"

• Uncollected short stories • "In the Silent World" (1970) • "They Only Come in Dreams" (1970) • "Eyes of Onyx" (1971) • "Her Lover's Name Was Death" (1971) • "The Lurker in the Locked Bedroom" (1971) • "Audition: Soon to Be a Major Production" (1972) • "Beside Still Waters" (1972, with James Sutherland) • "Darling, When You Hurt Me" (1972) • "Nova Morning" (1972, with Jody Harper) • "The 10:00 Report is Brought to You By..." (1972) • "2.46593" (1973) • "Nightmare Syndrome" (1973) • "Paths" (1973) • "And Then He Died" (1974) • "Cowboys, Indians" (1974) • "Going West" (1974) • "Xenofreak/Xenophobe" (1975) • "Kicks Are For Kids" (1978) • "Dark Angel" (1980) • "We'll Have Such a Good Time, Lover" (1980) • "This Is the Way the World Ends, Soggily" (1981) • "Freezing to Death" (1982) • Angie Black series: • In the Shade (1982) • Armageddon Between Sets (1984) • Fetish (1991) (Novelette) • "Bean Bag Cats®" (1983) • "Dancing Chickens" (1984) • "Party Time" (1984) • "The Man of the Future" (1984) • "The Serrated Edge" (1984) • "The Man Who Always Wanted to Travel" (1985) • "The Overly Familiar" (1985) • "Presents of Mind" (1986, with Connie Willis, Steve Rasnic Tem, Dan Simmons) • "The Transfer" (1986) • "Author's Notes" (1987) • "A Functional Proof of Immortality" (1988) • "Chrysalis" (1988) • "Skin and Blood" (1988) • "The Cutter" (1988) • "While She Was Out" (1988) • "A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned" (1989) (Novelette) • "Good Kids" (1989) • "Mod Dogs" (1989) • "'Saurus Wrecks" (1989) • "Dying Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard" (1990, with Dan Simmons) (Novelette) • "Slippage" (1990) • "Colder Than Hell" (1991) • "Country Mouse" (1991) • "Down Home" (1991) • "The Great Steam Bison of Cycad Center" (1991) (Novelette) • "Aqua Sancta" (1993) • "The Fire That Scours" (1994) • "Big Dogs, Strange Days" (1995) • "Calling the Lightning by Name" (1995) • "Flirting with Death" (1995) • "Raptured Up in Blue" (1995) • "Disillusion" (1996) • "Talkin' Trailer Trash" (1996) • "Ashes on Her Lips" (1998) • "Knock" (1998, AKA Ed Bryant) • "Styx and Bones" (1999) (Appeared in 999: Twenty-Nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense, an anthology edited by Al Sarrantonio) • "The Clock That Counts the Dead" (1999) • "The Flicker Man" (1999, with Trey Barker) (Novelette) • "Shuttlecock" (1999) (Novelette) • "Mr. Twisted" (2000, AKA Ed Bryant) • "Everything Broken" (2003) • "Bad German" (2010) • "Marginal Hants" (2015) • "Bitten Off" (2017) • "War Stories" (2024) (Appeared in "The Last Dangerous Visions", 2024 an anthology edited by Harlan Ellison) (Novelette)

• The Man of the Future (1990) • Fetish (1991) • The Cutter (1991) • The Thermals of August (1992) • Aqua Sancta (1993) • While She Was Out (2001)

• 2076: The American Tricentennial (1977, with Jo Ann Harper) • The Shadow on the Doorstep / Trilobyte (1987, with James P. Blaylock)