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Bruce Boston (born 1943) is an American speculative fiction writer and poet who was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California. He received a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, 1965, and an M.A., 1967. He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1961 to 2001, where he worked in a variety of occupations, including computer programmer, college professor (literature and creative writing, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, California, 1978—82), technical writer, book designer, gardener, movie projectionist, retail clerk, and furniture mover. He ly lives in Ocala, Florida, with his wife, writer-artist Marge Simon, whom he married in 2001. BRUCE BOSTON: Speculative Fiction and Poetry

Boston has won the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry a record seven times: for Best Long Poem in 1989 and 1999, and for Best Short Poem in 1985, 1988, 1994, 1996, and 2001, and the Asimov's Readers' Award for poetry The Locus Index to SF Awards: Asimov's Reader Poll Records and Tallies a record six times: 1990, 1994, 1997, 2003, 2005 and 2008. He has also received a Pushcart Prize for fiction, 1976, the Bram Stoker Award for his poetry collections Pitchblende, 2003, Shades Fantastic, 2006, and The Nightmare Collection, 2008, and the first Grandmaster Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, 1999. His collaborative poem with Robert Frazier, "Return to the Mutant Rain Forest," received first place in the 2006 Locus Online Poetry Poll for Best All-Time Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Poem.

Boston has also published more than a hundred short stories and the novels Stained Glass Rain and The Guardener's Tale (the latter a Bram Stoker Award Finalist and Prometheus Award Nominee). His work has appeared widely in periodicals and anthologies, including Asimov's SF Magazine, Amazing Stories Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Science Fiction Age, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and the Nebula Awards Showcase. Both his fiction and poetry exhibit a variety in styles and subjects. Writing in The Washington Post, Paul Di Filippo described his collection Masque of Dreams as containing "nearly two dozen brilliant stories ranging across all emotional and narrative terrains." Washington Post review, THE FAR SIDE OF NOWHERE Reviewing Stained Glass Rain for Tangent, Howard V. Hendrix called it "probably the best novel yet written about the sixties and its drug culture."

Boston has chaired the Nebula Award Novel Jury (SFWA) and the Philip K. Dick Award Jury, and served as Secretary and Treasurer of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. He has served as fiction and/or poetry editor for a number of publications, including Occident, The Open Cell, Berkeley Poets Cooperative, City Miner, Star*Line, and The Pedestal Magazine.

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Total Books: 49
The Guardener's Tale
2011 - The Guardener's Tale (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780982897591
ISBN-10: 0982897596
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Dark Matters
2010 - Dark Matters (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780984460151
ISBN-10: 0984460152
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Masque of Dreams The Best of Bruce Boston
2009 - Masque of Dreams the Best of Bruce Boston (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781434404589
ISBN-10: 1434404587
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Masque of Dreams
2009 - Masque of Dreams (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781434409119
ISBN-10: 1434409112
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Double Visions
2009 - Double VIsions (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781888993660
ISBN-10: 1888993669
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El Guardian de Almas
2009 - El Guardian De Almas (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788498004434
ISBN-10: 8498004438
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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The Nightmare Collection
2008 - The Nightmare Collection (Other)
ISBN-13: 9781888993592
ISBN-10: 1888993596
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Night Smoke
2007 - Night Smoke (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780968993460
ISBN-10: 096899346X
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Shades Fantastic
2006 - Shades Fantastic (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780977666539
ISBN-10: 0977666530
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Flashing the Dark
2006 - Flashing the Dark (Other)
ISBN-13: 9781933556239
ISBN-10: 1933556234
Genre: Horror
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Etiquette with Your Robot Wife and Thirty More SF/Fantasy/Horror Lists
2005 - Etiquette with Your Robot Wife and Thirty More Sf/fantasy/horror Lists (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780913045121
ISBN-10: 0913045128
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Pitchblende
2003 - Pitchblende (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781888993370
ISBN-10: 1888993375
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Stained Glass Rain
2003 - Stained Glass Rain (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781592249404
ISBN-10: 159224940X
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Quanta
2002 - Quanta (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780967666617
ISBN-10: 0967666619
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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White Space
2001 - White Space (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781888993202
ISBN-10: 1888993200
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Masque of Dreams  Tales of Illusion and Identity
2001 - Masque of Dreams Tales of Illusion and Identity (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781587152733
ISBN-10: 1587152738
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Complete Accursed Wives
2000 - The Complete Accursed Wives (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781888993196
ISBN-10: 1888993197
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Horror
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After Magic
1999 - After Magic (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781888993172
ISBN-10: 1888993170
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Currently 2.7/5 Stars.
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Cold Tomorrows
1998 - Cold Tomorrows (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780913045077
ISBN-10: 0913045071
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Dark Tales  Light
1998 - Dark Tales Light (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781888993158
ISBN-10: 1888993154
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Sensuous Debris Selected Poems 1970-1995
1995 - Sensuous Debris Selected Poems 1970-1995 (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780962670886
ISBN-10: 096267088X
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1995 - Conditions of Sentient Life [Gothic Chapbook, 2] (Paperback)