Ed Bryant
(August 27, 1945 – February 10, 2017)
Edward Bryant was a fan and a professional science fiction and horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered The New Wave. At the beginning of his career, he developed an association with Harlan Ellison, which proved longstanding. This led to collaborative efforts such as the novel Phoenix Without Ashes, based on Ellison's pilot script for The Starlost.
He published the fanzines Ad Astra and Ad Infinitum, starting both while still in high school. He edited at least one issue of Tightbeam.
His writing career began in 1968 with his attendance at the Clarion Workshop. By 1973, he had gained acclaim for stories with a conversational style that mask rather dark realities. At times these realities are downright apocalyptic, although in other cases the message is joyous and hopeful.
His short horror story "Dark Angel", which appeared in Kirby McCauley's anthology Dark Forces, featured modern-day witch Angela Black, whose name reflects her moral ambiguity. She reappears as the narrator of Bryant's short novel Fetish.
He won two Nebula Awards for his short stories, "Stone" (1978) and "giANTS" (1979). He is mostly known as a writer of short fiction, however he also wrote poetry, nonfiction, reviews, criticism, and edited an ezine.
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. He was a senior editor of Wormhole Books. In addition, Bryant has facilitated a number of other writing workshops over the years for writers ranging in skill and experience from amateur to professional. Although generally known as a writer himself, Bryant's greatest legacy may be the encouragement, instruction, and mentoring he has given to hundreds of other writers through the years.
He was a supporter of the Denver in '81 Worldcon bid and published Thin Air Wonder Stories to support it. With Phil Normand, he edited Denvention II's progress reports and MCed its Hugo Ceremony — on roller skates.
He also chaired (and was a special guest at) multiple years of the World Horror Convention. He appeared in Somtow Sucharitkul’s horror movie The Laughing Dead.
He lived in North Denver. Bryant was born in White Plains, NY. However, he was raised on a cattle ranch in Wyoming. He had strong roots in that state attested to in his collection Wyoming Sun.
- Ad Astra
- Ad Infinitum
- Thin Air Wonder Stories
- Tightbeam (at least one issue)
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 1972 -- MileHiCon 4
- 1974 -- Wyocon 1
- 1975 -- Bubonicon 7, MileHiCon 7
- 1979 -- FortCon
- 1981 -- Electracon I
- 1982 -- MileHiCon 14, Electracon II
- 1983 -- Colorado Mountain Con
- 1985 -- Disclave 29, AggieCon XVI
- 1984 -- Treasurecon 2
- 1988 -- Tucker Award
- 1989 -- New Orleans Science Fiction Fantasy Festival
- 1990 -- Archon 14
- 1992 -- Vikingcon 13
- 1995 -- TusCon 22
- Two Nebulas
Bryant was a very popular Toastmaster, including the following:
- 1973 -- MileHiCon 5
- 1974 -- MileHiCon 6
- 1976 -- MileHiCon 8
- 1977 -- MileHiCon 9
- 1978 -- MileHiCon 10
- 1979 -- Penulticon '79, TusCon 6, MileHiCon 11, Intervention 1
- 1980 -- MileHiCon 12, Penulticon 3
- 1981 -- Denvention Two (Worldcon), ArmadilloCon 3, Ambercon 3
- 1982 -- ArmadilloCon 4
- 1983 -- Vikingcon 4
- 1985 -- MileHiCon 17, Alti-Ego's
- 1986 -- MileHiCon 18, TusCon 13, Jack Williamson Lectureship
- 1988 -- TusCon 15, Con-Version V
- 1987 -- MileHiCon 19, TusCon 14
- 1989 -- TusCon 16
- 1990 -- TusCon 17, New Orleans SF & Fantasy Festival '90
- 1991 -- Norwescon XIV
- 1992 -- MileHiCon 24
- 1993 -- TusCon 20, MileHiCon 25, Con-Version X
- 1994 -- TusCon 21
- 1995 -- 1995 World Fantasy Convention
- 1996 -- TusCon 23
- 1997 -- TusCon 24, MileHiCon 29
- 1999 -- TusCon 26
- 2000 -- TusCon 27
- 2001 -- TusCon 28
- 2002 -- TusCon 29
- 2003 -- TusCon 30
- 2004 -- TusCon 31
- 2005 -- TusCon 32
- 2006 -- TusCon 33
- 2007 -- MileHiCon 39
- 2008 -- TusCon 35
- 2009 -- TusCon 36
- 2010 -- TusCon 37
- 2011 -- TusCon 38
- 2012 -- TusCon 39
- 2013 -- TusCon 40
- 2015 -- TusCon 42
- Death Equinox
(A busy boy!)
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