Emshwiller: Infinity x Two: The Life & Art of Ed & Carol Emshwiller
by Luis Ortiz, Carol Emshwiller, Ed Emshwiller
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Together Ed and Carol Emshwiller formed a unique creative pair, inspiring each other on good days and giving meaning to the adage "marriage and art don't mix” on bad days, and this collection brings together their imaginative work. Ed "Emsh” Emshwiller, was one of the premiere artists working in the science fiction field (winning five Hugo awards). He used his unique multifaceted vision of the future to also become an award winning avant-garde filmmaker and computer animation pioneer. show more His wife, Carol Emshwiller, won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2005, after more than 50 years of writing beautiful, jewel-like stories and witty novels. show lessTags
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Luis Ortiz is an editor, artist and author based in New York City. He recently illustrated Streampunk Prime, edited by Mike Ashley, and is the author of Outermost: The Art + Life of Jack Gaughan. Forthcoming from him will be The Monkey's Other Paw.
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Carol Emshwiller was born Agnes Carolyn Fries in Ann Arbor, Michigan on April 12, 1921. She received bachelor's degrees in music and design from the University of Michigan and attended the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1949-1950 as a Fulbright Fellow. She was best known as a short story writer. Her short stories show more collections included The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller and The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories, which won the World Fantasy Award. Her novels included Carmen Dog, Mister Boots, The Secret City, and The Mount, which won a Philip K. Dick Award. She also wrote a pair of western novels entitled Ledoyt and Leaping Man Hill. She won a Nebula Award in the short story category for Creature in 2003 and for I Live with You in 2006. She received a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2005. She died on February 2, 2019 at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 2007
- People/Characters
- Carol Emshwiller; Ed Emshwiller
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- Levittown, New York, USA
- Dedication
- For Karan
- First words
- I can't believe all the work Luis did for this book ... some of it with me. (Introduction by Carol Emshwiller)
Aficionados of a certain age will recall searching, in science fiction covers of the mid-Fifties, for the block-letter chop of "Emsh" tucked among the details of cityscapes, robocars, derelict spaceships, and post-atomic wrec... (show all)kage, or worked into the filigree utility belts, gizmo arm-bands, gun handles, gear wheels, collars and boot tops, and in other paraphernalia of vintage science fiction. (Foreword by Alex Eisenstein)
In the winter of 1950-1951 Edmund Alexander Emshwiller was twenty-six, and married for just over a year, when he appeared at the Manhattan offices of Galaxy Science Fiction with a portfolio of paintings. - Quotations
- My dad was one who thought to argue was to love. Dad always won. Carol lost these debates to the Socratic arguments he used. As a grown-up Carol once heard someone call Socrates a bully and she shouted, Yes!.... (show all)>
(Chap. 1, p. 22) - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Although there is virtually none of my day-to-day personal life in them, they do show the evolution of my preoccupations as a filmmaker and some of the general changes that have come about in society over the years."
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- Beret Erway
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