Michael Shea

Novelist

Michael Shea was born in Los Angeles, California, United States on July 3rd, 1946 and is the Novelist. At the age of 67, Michael Shea biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
July 3, 1946
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, United States
Death Date
Feb 16, 2014 (age 67)
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
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Novelist, Science Fiction Writer, Writer
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Michael Shea Life

Michael Shea (July 3, 1946 – February 16, 2014) was an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction author.

His novel Nifft the Lean won the World Fantasy Award, as did his novella Growlimb.

Life and work

Shea was born to Irish parents in Los Angeles in 1946. There he frequented Venice Beach and the Baldwin Hills for their wildlife. He attended UCLA and Berkeley and hitch-hiked twice across the US and Canada. At a hotel in Juneau, Alaska, Shea chanced on a battered book from the lobby shelves, The Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance (1966). Four years later, after a brief first marriage and one year hitch-hiking through France and Spain, he wrote a novel in homage to Vance, who graciously declined to share the advance offered by DAW Books. It was Shea's first publication, A Quest for Simbilis (1974), and an authorized sequel to Vance's two Dying Earth books then extant. ISFDB notes that it "became non-canonic" in 1983 when Vance "continued ... The Eyes ... in a different direction."

Subsequently, Shea ranged all over the L.A. Basin, painting houses and teaching English as a second language to adults by night. In 1978 he met his second wife, artist and author Lynn Cesar. They had two children: Adele and Jacob. Shea moved to the Bay Area where (prior to 1987) he held a variety of occupations, including instructor of languages, construction laborer, and night clerk in a Mission District flophouse.

In 1979 Shea published the story "The Angel of Death" (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Aug 1979). This was followed in 1980 by "The Autopsy" (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Dec 1980), a story nominated for both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.

His next published work was the novella "Polyphemus" (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Aug 1981). His story "The Frog" appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Apr 1982). Shea was quiet for a few years but re-emerged with his second book, a collection of four linked novellas called Nifft the Lean (1982). Nifft showed that Shea had developed the exotic style of Vance and Clark Ashton Smith, plus the ingenuity of Fritz Leiber's Gray Mouser stories, to produce an extravagant quest novel. It won the 1983 World Fantasy Award as year's best novel.

Shea followed up with The Color out of Time (1984), a work influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos, and In Yana, the Touch of Undying (1985), about a vain opportunist's search for immortality in a land of fable. Polyphemus (1987) is a collection of deft science fiction and horror stories published by Arkham House.

Shea continued the adventures of Nifft in The Mines of Behemoth (Baen, 1997), serialised one year earlier in the Algis Budrys magazine Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, and in a novel The A'rak (2000). The Nifft stories are "sword-and-sorcery" modeled on Jack Vance, notable for their imaginative depiction of the world of demons and their blend of horror, flowery diction, and occasionally crude humor.

Shea's work overlaps the science fiction and fantasy genres, e.g., thematic use of demons and aliens that act as endoparasites. Shea's interest in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos continued throughout his career. Copping Squid and Other Mythos Tales (2010) is a collection of such tales.

Shea died unexpectedly on February 16, 2014.

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What the Queen really thought of Margaret Thatcher

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 23, 2023
According to a newspaper article from 1986, the Queen (pictured with Mrs Thatcher in 1979) was expected to be'dismayed' by the 'uncaring' PM's refusal to issue sentrums on apartheid South Africa, afraid that the decision would divide the Commonwealth. It was a tale that contributed to rumors that Her Late Majesty did not engage with Britain's first female Prime Minister, raising the alarm clock. But what the Queen did next showed that things were not as they appeared. According to biographer Charles Moore, the obnoxious monarch phoned the 'desperately wounded' PM to apologize and deny that the remarks were made in her opinion. Michael Shea, the Queen's Press Secretary who was blamed for the incident, resigned the following year, although the aide maintained that his departure was unrelated to the furore. The truth of the Queen and Mrs Thatcher's friendship was much better represented by their public appearances in their later lives. In 1995 (right) and 2005 (right), Her Majesty and Prince Philip attended both Mrs Thatcher's 70th and 80th birthday parties (middle) and 2005 (right). And, when the Iron Lady died at the age of 87 in 2013, the Queen attended her funeral. The Daily Mail's coverage of the 1986 furore was particularly revealing.

How The Crown reignited America's obsession with the Royals

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 19, 2022
Since its premiere in November 2016, Netflix has blurred the boundaries between fact and fantasy, while still curating America's obsession with the Royal Family. The royals were born into celebrity in the eyes of Americans, who couldn't help but get wrapped up in the drama that was portrayed on television. Although the show is based on actual events, it's still fiction - and it has altered timelines, reimagined private conversations, and exaggerated events. Although The Crown has aided in the surge of interest in events that have engulfed the monarch over the years, it has been chastised for failing to make it clear enough that it is not a fictional retelling and skewing fact and fiction. The melodrama had a dizzying effect on viewers, who seemed to know the Royals well; but they didn't know the versions that were being seen in a work of historical fiction. The show had such a large effect in America that it has left some people wondering if the US is too curious by the Monarch, and some commentators have 'enough' with the queen's passing 'hogging' the pages.