Filet of Sohl - Sohl, Jerry

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Résumé :
THE GREATEST SHORT WORKS OF A MASTER OF FANTASY JERRY SOHL (1913-2002) was one of the most successful science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writers of his time. A prolific author of novels (Costigans Needle, Point Ultimate) and films (Die, Monster, Die! with Boris Karloff ), he is perhaps best-known today for his teleplays for The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, The Outer Limits, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. You hold in your hands the first-ever collection of this masters scripts and stories! Included in this volume: ? Ten classic short tales, including two adapted for the legendary Outer Limits ? Two never-seen scripts for The Twilight Zone ? An intriguing story treatment for Alfred Hitchcock Presents ? A powerful foreword by William F. Nolan ? Essay-appreciations from George Clayton Johnson, Richard Matheson, and Marc Scott Zicree ? Touching personal tributes from the authors son and daughter, Allan and Jennifer Sohl For fans of classic science fiction, fantasy, and suspense this is a book to savor!

Biographie:
Gerald Allan Jerry Sohl Sr. (1913 - 2002) was an American television scriptwriter and science fiction author who wrote for The Twilight Zone (as a ghostwriter for Charles Beaumont), Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: The Original Series (once using the pseudonym Nathan Butler) and other shows. He wrote more than twenty novels as well as feature film scripts. He also wrote the nonfiction works Underhanded Chess and Underhanded Bridge in 1973. New York Times reviewer Villiers Gerson described his 1953 novel The Transcendent Man as contain[ing] enough twists to afford the reader a few hours' entertainment. His 1955 Point Ultimate is a piece of Cold War invasion literature: in 1999, a faraway future history at the time of writing, the US lies under a cruel Soviet occupation, reinforced by a deadly artificial disease which makes conquered Americans dependent on the conquerors for the injections that keep them alive. In The Time Dissolver (1957), a man and a woman wake one morning to find that they have lost all memory of the past eleven years, including how they met and become married. As Charles Beaumont became increasingly ill from a mysterious brain illness, possibly Pick's disease or very early onset Alzheimer's and unable to write, Sohl ghostwrote three episodes of The Twilight Zone for him. These were The New Exhibit, Queen of the Nile and Living Doll. Beaumont insisted on splitting the fees for each episode.