NOVELS(finished)

1. PARRY'S PROTOCOL (1993, Web serial 1999)
   
2. DARC AGES (1995; Web serial in 1999-2000 and 2005-2006)
   
3. THE STRAW MAN (1996, unpublished)
   
4. ALIEN BEACH(1997; Web serial in 1999-2000 and 2004-2005)
   
5. THE ARGUS PROJECT (2001; Web serial 2000-2001 and 2004-2005)
   
6. ALIEN LAND (2001, Web serial)
   
7. WOMAN WITHOUT VEIL (2002, unpublished)
   
8. REX OMEGA (2002, unpublished; NOTE: Written in Swedish)
   

   

9. TERRA HEXA (1998, revised 2004, published in 2004 by Wela Fantasy, Sweden). Listed in the Swedish librarians' official index of the best young-adult novels released in 2004.
   ISBN: 91-975151-2-4

   

10. TERRA HEXA II (published in 2006 by Wela Fantasy, Sweden).
    ISBN 91-975408-5-4

    

11. TERRA HEXA 3 (published in 2007 by Wela Fantasy, Sweden).
    ISBN 978-91-976740-3-4

12. DARC AGES: CITY OF MASKS (2008; Web serial in 2007-2008)
    

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SHORT STORIES

1. "Grisham's World" (Published in The 12 Gauge Review #6, online & print edition)
   
2. "RansomBay(tm)" (Published in ANOTHEREALM)
   
3. "Custom Job" (Published in ANOTHEREALM)
   
4. "I Feel Super, Thanks For Asking" (Published in ANOTHEREALM)
   
5. "By the Nose" (Published in GATEWAY S-F, print edition)
   
6. "The War" (Published in Swedish print magazine MITRANIA, #2 2004)
7. "Sins Of Our Fathers" (First published in defunct Indian webzine ADBHUT)
   Also published in THE FIRST BEWILDERING STORIES ANTHOLOGY (Adventure Books of Seattle, 2006)

8. "Physical Terror" (First published in defunct Indian webzine ADBHUT) Also published in small-press anthology SCHAKT 3: Kosmiskt Kaos Och Andra Katastrofer (Publisher: Kent Bjornsson, Sweden 2006)

9. "The Face In the Door" (First published in CYBERPULP MAGAZINE, Fall Issue 2004)

10. "K.C. And the Sunshine World" (First published in SIMULACRUM #7, November 2004)

11. "Sniper, Viper..." (on this website)
    
12. "Godsmack" (on this website)
    
13. "Killed In the Ratings" (on this website)
    

    
    

14. "SEE" (in Chinese magazine SCIENCE FICTION PICTORIAL MAGAZINE / KE HUAN, April 2005 issue.)
    Also published in Swedish print magazine MITRANIA, #4 2005; originally published in SIMULACRUM #5, July 2004)
    

15. "The Last Weblog Of Jonathan Lippincott" (on this website)
    
16. "Lonely Planets"(in April 1, 2005 issue of webzine REVOLUTION SF)
    
17. "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To Valhalla"(in May 2005 issue of webzine SURPRISING STORIES)

    
    

18. "Telephone Conversations" (in Chinese magazine WORLD SF, June 2005 issue)
    Also published in Swedish print magazine MITRANIA, #3 2005
    
19. "Landscape With Sententers" in small-press anthology SCHAKT 1: Mytiska Maskiner Och Andra Mardrommar (Publisher: Kent Bjornsson, Sweden 2005)
    
20. "Nightmare Number Six"(in December 2005 issue of the paying webzine BYZARIUM)

    
    

21. THE FACE IN THE DOOR AND OTHER STORIES (as paperback from CafePress and as e-book from Wela Fantasy, 2006)
    E-book ISBN: 91-975408-8-9
    Paperback ISBN: 978-82-997610-1-7

22. "The Man Who Fell Out" (on this website)
23. "The Club That Wouldn't Let Anyone In" (on this website)
24. "Natural Enemy" (on this website)
25. "Bad Egg" (on this website)
26. "Family Photo" (on this website)
27. "Copyfighter" (on this website)
28. "And Now a Word From Our Sponsor" (on this website)
29. "Racisticus" (in Swedish weblog SAJBERSPEJS)
    

30. "Super-Size Security" (in Issue #2 of print magazine MURKY DEPTHS)

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    OTHER
    

    1. DIETING FOR THE PEOPLE a.k.a. DIETS ARE FOR DUMMIES (2003, unpublished; U.S. lit.agent: Faye Swetky)

    2. THE FATHER MACHINE - script for a motion picture (2004, unpublished; U.S. lit.agent: Faye Swetky)

    3. SUPERCELL - script for a TV series (2007, unpublished; U.S. lit.agent: Faye Swetky)

    4. "FEE FIE FOE FUM" - novella (2005, serialized on this site)
       

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I don't buy the theory that one must know all about an author, in order to "understand" her work. Also, I believe in privacy - and that vanity is a destructive influence.

Anyhow... I was born in Sweden.
If I recall correctly, my earliest childhood ambitions were to work in comics, film or animation; it was from comic books that I first learned to read at the age of 4 or 5 years. (Writing came a few years later, in school.)

My childhood was dominated by one institution: public libraries, which were to me what the church is to the faithful. I read voraciously, especially science fiction and popular science. (It could be that the Internet has partly substituted that role to me in later years.)

One particular novel I read many times as a child was Tove Jansson's COMET IN MOOMINLAND. And in retrospect, it seems to have influenced my own novel Terra Hexa, much later.

Writers of comics and literature that affected me deeply were Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Christopher Priest, Philip K. Dick, Frederik Pohl & Cyril M. Kornbluth, Alfred Bester, James Tiptree Jr.(a.k.a. Alice Sheldon) and Fredric Brown. Stephen King's writing about how to write also stuck to me.

Another great influence was film - especially Stanley Kubrick's 2001 - A SPACE ODYSSEY and DR. STRANGELOVE - and music, also from 2001 among other films. As a child, I read several comics based on films, notably the PLANET OF THE APES series - thus making the cinematic influences even deeper.

I distinctly remember a vivid dream that never ceased to return during my childhood nights. In the dream, I overcame gravity by jumping, and then flew by sheer force of will. Does every child have that fantasy, to "leap tall buildings in a single bound"? I certainly hope so, for we need impossible ambitions to drive humanity toward self-improvement.

As for humor, I together with my generation was "warped" by MAD Magazine, and the televised antics of Monty Python's Flying Circus and British humor in general. Thus, satire and parody became my humor of choice.

Like so many others, I began writing, drawing and painting in school - short stories, often of the horrifying "twist-end" variety - it was one of those phases an immature writer must go through. Also, influenced by "Star Wars" and science fiction TV shows like "Space: 1999" I produced an incessant stream of strange drawings from age 7 and onward: violent space battles, planet-sized cataclysms, advanced but inhuman aliens who merged with their otherwordly technology (all this before the age of 10!).

Much later, I actually published my own comics for Semic Press in Sweden - however, this remained an infrequent hobby activity, and I soon gave up cartooning for the computer game business. (You can't eat art.) Some of the more ambitious ideas for comic strips, such as ALIEN BEACH, have now become novels instead - and that will happen again.

Since 1993, I have attempted to write novels and get them published in print. Most refusals have been of the "Not bad, but our schedule is full" variety, or even "Not obscure enough". That didn't deter me from writing, though - because friends, relatives and acquaintances who actually read my books enjoyed them. The dilemma eventually led to my decision to start this website in March 1999.

In 2004, the publisher Wela Fantasy discovered my novel TERRA HEXA through this website, and soon signed up to publish it. TERRA HEXA was released (in Swedish translation) in August 2004. (The sequel, TERRA HEXA II, was released in 2006.) Even though I'm now starting to see some success in getting published, I still believe electronic publishing will eventually replace print on paper.

In my spare time, I've sometimes made rare guest appearances at small standup-comedy clubs and various events - not always without success.

But is all this really important to appreciating my novels? Naah...

(By the way, my goal is to become one of the most influential writers of the 21st century - or the next one. I'm not kidding.)

-A.R.Yngve
May 28, 2006

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