Jack Dann Jack Dann i(A23799 works by) (a.k.a. Jack Mayo Dann)
Born: Established: 1945 Johnson City, New York (State),
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1994
Heritage: American
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1 The Towers of Eden Barry N. Malzberg , Jack Dann , 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: Caped Fear : Superhuman Horror Stories 2022; (p. 11-26)
1 The Mall : A Providential Tale Jack Dann , 2022 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Other Covenants : Alternate Histories of the Jewish People 2022; (p. 31-36)
1 y separately published work icon Songs From a White Heart Jack Dann , Melbourne : IFWG Publishing Inc , 2022 24992193 2022 selected work poetry

'In the green days of youth-in another life and in a far land-Jack Dann was invited to participate in Native American religious ceremonies and culture. And in that far country of the past Jack experienced numinous moments and small revelations that changed his life and his art. Some of those distant moments and visceral wisdoms are encapsulated in Poems From a White Heart…a lifetime’s distillation of poems birthed in the ice and fire of a lost America.

'As he writes in his introduction, “During that initial white hot time of exploration and revelation, I asked a medicine woman to vet the early poems that now make up the spine of this book. I had wanted to publish them in magazines and literary quarterlies, but did not feel comfortable doing so without her permission. She read the poems…and gave me her blessing. And over the long years that followed-long after I had lost touch with those who conducted and participated in the ceremonies I describe-I continued to write poems for this book.”

'Songs From a White Heart is a journey grounded in intensely personal revelations that inspired Jack’s poetry, short stories, and novels such as Bad Medicine, which Locus Magazine described as showing us “that true magics, supernatural moments of both grief and joy, can be found in life itself. You just have to know where to look, and how to invoke them-and Jack Dann is an expert at such things.”' (Publication summary)

1 The Mirror in the Mirror Jack Dann , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Relics, Wrecks and Ruins 2021; (p. 361-370)
1 Red Sky, Blue Dream Jack Dann , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Oz Is Burning 2020;
1 The Last Maskil Jack Dann , 2019 single work novella
— Appears in: Holy C.O.W. Anthology : SF Stories From the Center of the World 2019;

'What if the mysterious Qumran sect would have survived into the Middle Ages? Jack Dann brings the Sons of Light to life in his captivating story, "The Last Maskil."'

(Source: publisher's blurb)

1 4 y separately published work icon Shadows in the Stone Jack Dann , Victoria : IFWG Publishing Inc , 2019 17292933 2019 single work novel fantasy historical fiction

'In Shadows in the Stone Jack Dann creates a fully-realized, living, breathing universe, a universe where the Vatican is in Venice, Jehovah is really a lesser god known as the Demiurge, and the magus John Dee’s experiments with angels are true and repeatable. Here you’ll discover a nun who has the expertise and agility of a Ninja warrior, the reincarnated snake goddess known as the Daughter of Light, the famed Florentine magician Pico Della Mirandola, a young magus who is part stone, the Knights Templar of the Crimson Cross, the sapphire tablet: the most secret of the Dead Sea scrolls, and a 15th Century dirigible kept aloft by imprisoned souls. Here you’ll find wild adventure and Machiavellian subtlety, treason and heroism, love and carnality, joy and loss, magic, machines, the cosmic machinations of angels, demons, gods, and half-gods; and the absolutely breathtaking vistas that are their battle grounds.

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'Join Jack Dann’s protagonists—Louisa Morgan and Lucian Ben-Hananiah—and the fellowship of The Dark Companions in their apocalyptic battle against the Demiurge—described in the forbidden Gnostic texts as the demon god Yaldabaoth… and known to us as Jehovah.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 In Re The Strange Fate of Samuel Langhorne Clemens Jack Dann , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: War of the Worlds : Battleground Australia 2019;
1 2 y separately published work icon Dreaming in the Dark Jack Dann (editor), Harrogate : PS Australia , 2016 9555105 2016 anthology short story
1 Harold the Hero and the Talking Sword Jack Dann , Steven Paulsen , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: And Then... The Great Big Book of Awesome Adventure Tales : Volume 2 2016; Shadows on the Wall : Dark and Weird Stories 2018;
1 y separately published work icon Shadows in the Stone and a Study of Historical Divergence Jack Dann , St Lucia : 2016 12296004 2016 single work thesis

Creative-writing PhD, combining a novel and a critical exegesis. The latter explores alternate history and counterfactual fiction, with a focus on Gnosticism.

1 Trainspotting in Winesburg Jack Dann , 2016 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Concentration 2016;
A short story set in future Australia, on the subject of the Holocaust.
1 y separately published work icon Concentration Jack Dann , Hornsea : PS Publishing , 2016 10746386 2016 selected work short story

A collection of short stories on the Holocaust. Includes the previously unpublished short story 'Trainspotting in Winesburg'.

1 Welcome to the Golden Age : An Introduction of Sorts Jack Dann , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Dreaming in the Dark 2016; (p. xi)
1 Waiting for Medusa Jack Dann , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Review of Australian Fiction , vol. 5 no. 6 2013;
1 y separately published work icon Ghosts By Gaslight : Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense Jack Dann (editor), Nick Gevers (editor), New York (City) : Voyager , 2011 Z1810708 2011 anthology short story 'Modern masters of the supernatural weave their magic to revitalize the chilling Victorian and Edwardian ghostly tale: here are haunted houses, arcane inventions, spirits reaching across the centuries, ghosts in the machine, fateful revelations, gaslit streets scarcely keeping the dark at bay, and other twisted variations on the immortal classics that frighten us still.'
Source: Back cover
1 Caressing With Razors Jack Dann , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales 2010; (p. 13-22)
1 Telescope Jack Dann , 2010 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Baggage : Tales of Speculative Fiction 2010; (p. 33-35)
1 5 y separately published work icon Legends of Australian Fantasy Jack Dann (editor), Jonathan Strahan (editor), Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2010 Z1703151 2010 anthology novella short story fantasy

'Celebrate the legends of Australian fantasy. Extraordinary voices ... extraordinary worlds.

Come to Erith, to a faerie tale with a sting, or to Obernewtyn, long before the Seeker was born. Revisit a dark pocket of history for the Magician′s Guild or get caught up in the confusion of an endlessly repeating day in the Citadel. Cross the wall, where Charter magic is all that lies between you and death. A trip with a graverobber can be gruesome, and it′s hard to share the fear of a woman who must kill her husband if her child is to rule ...

A mysterious tale plays out in Sevenwaters. Catch up with Ros and Adi as they prepare for the greatest change of all. Other twists in these fabulous tales bring us to demonic destiny and an alternate WWII.

These eleven short novels will take you on amazing new journeys with favourite characters from the worlds you know and love' (HarperCollins).

1 Introduction Jonathan Strahan , Jack Dann , 2010 single work essay
— Appears in: Legends of Australian Fantasy 2010; (p. ix)
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