William Browning Spencer

William Browning Spencer (born 1946) is an American novelist and short story writer living in Austin, Texas. His science fiction and horror stories are often darkly and surrealistically humorous.

Awards and honors

His novel Résumé With Monsters won the International Horror Critics Guild Award for Best Novel in 1995. His first novel, Maybe I'll Call Anna, was a National Endowment of the Arts New American Writing Award winner. His novels and short stories have been finalists for the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. His short stories have been anthologized numerous times, including twice in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and twice in The Year's Best Science Fiction. In 1995, he was Toastmaster of ArmadilloCon 21 in Austin, TX.

Bibliography

Novels

• Maybe I'll Call Anna, Permanent Press (1990)
• Résumé With Monsters, Permanent Press (1995). Reprint: Dover Publications (2014)
• Zod Wallop. St. Martin's Press (1995). Reprint: White Wolf Publishing (1996)
• Irrational Fears, White Wolf Publishing (1998)

Short fiction

Collections

• The Return of Count Electric & Other Stories, Permanent Press (1993)
• The Ocean and All Its Devices, Subterranean Press (2006)
• The Unorthodox Dr. Draper And Other Stories, Subterranean Press (2017)

List of short stories

References

External links

• Book group recount of an evening with William Browning Spencer
• Interview from 1999 at "Crescent Blues"
• Fantastic Fiction summary for William Browning Spencer
• Publishers Weekly review of Maybe I'll Call Anna https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-932966-99-5
• Publishers Weekly review of The Return of Count Electric & Other Stories https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-877946-27-1
• Washington Post review of Irrational Fears https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1998/10/18/where-the-dts-leave-off/00648c92-37f4-4aad-9ece-804bd811ed67/?noredirect
• Publishers Weekly review of Irrational Fears https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-56504-915-4
• Kirkus review of Zod Wallop https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/william-browning-spencer/zod-wallop/
• New York Times Review of Zod Wallop
• SF Site review of The Ocean and All Its Devices https://web.archive.org/web/20060527062521/http://sfsite.com//05b/oo224.htm
• Publishers Weekly review of The Ocean and All Its Devices https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59606-047-0
• Publishers Weekly review of The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59606-831-5
• Kirkus review of The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/william-browning-spencer/the-unorthodox-dr-draper-and-other-stories/
• Locus Magazine review of The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories https://locusmag.com/2017/07/paul-di-filippo-reviews-william-browning-spencer/
• William Browning Spencer Internet Speculative Fiction Database http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1399