Stephen R. Donaldson
The single most prominent work the available record anchors to Donaldson is the fiction he produced as a science fiction novelist, a body of writing that earned him the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection, among other distinctions.
Stephen R. Donaldson was born on 13 May 1947 in Cleveland, a citizen of the United States. His education carried him across a range of institutions: Kodaikanal International School, the College of Wooster, and Kent State University. He also attended the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. In addition to his work as a novelist and science fiction writer, Donaldson practiced karate, holding the occupation of karateka alongside his literary career. He wrote in American English.
Recognition came to him in several forms. He received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, the August Derleth Award, the Julia-Verlanger Award, and the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection. That last honor, the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection, remains a concrete point in the record of his career as a writer working in the genre of science fiction.
Quotes by Stephen R. Donaldson
Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.
For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reasons was that there were so few alternatives available. Readers who loved Tolkien, and who were not satisfied by Terry Brooks, had nowhere else to turn.
The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it so. In the case of 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,' it was absolutely necessary to my intentions.
He had no idea where he was headed, but he knew he had to go. On each breath that panted through his locked teeth, he whispered hate as if it were a question.
Dark trees leaped across his vision like aghast dancers in the nacreous light.
In your present state, Chosen, Desecration lies ahead of you. It does not crowd at your back.
You did not cause his despair. Had you treated him with distrust, you would have achieved nothing but the confirmation of his distress. Distrust – vindicates itself.
Whatever the explanation, it’s perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it’s a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.
When inadequate men assumed huge burdens, the outcome could only serve Despite.
Pardon me that I have feared for you. Fear is born in doubt, and you have not merited my doubt.