John Baxter (author)

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John Martin Baxter (born 1939) is an Australian-born writer, journalist, and film-maker.

Baxter has lived in Britain and the United States as well as in his native Sydney. He began writing science fiction in the early 1960s. He was Visiting Professor at Hollins College in Virginia in 1975-1976. He has written a number of short stories and novels in that genre and a book about SF in the movies, as well as editing collections of Australian science fiction.^[1] Baxter has also written a large number of other works dealing with the movies, including biographies of film personalities. His own films have included documentaries. For a number of years in the sixties, he was active in the Sydney Film Festival but resigned from a key post due to conflicts of views.^[2] Some of his books have been translated into various languages, including Japanese and Chinese.

Contents 1 Publications 1.1 Novels 1.2 Edited collections 1.3 Nonfiction 2 Filmography 3 Internet links 4 References

[edit] Publications

[edit] Novels

• The Black Yacht, 1982 (co-author; horror story)
• Bidding
• The Hermes Fall, 1978 (about a possible collision of the asteroid Hermes and the earth)
• The Off-Worlders, 1966 (about a planet where superstition rules)

[edit] Edited collections

• The Second Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction, 1971
• The Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction, 1968

[edit] Nonfiction

• Ww'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light, 2006
• A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict, 2002
• George Lucas: A Biography , 1999
• Woody Allen: A Biogrpahy, 1998
• Bunuel, 1998
• Stanley Kubrick: A Biography, 1997
• De Niro: A Biography, 2003
• Filmstruck: Australia at the Movies. , 1986
• The Hollywood Exiles, 1976
• King Vidor, 1976
• The Fire Came by: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion, 1976
• Stunt; the Story of the Great Movie Stunt Men , 1974
• Sixty Years of Hollywood, 1973
• An Appalling Talent: Ken Russell, 1973
• The Cinema of Josef von Sternberg, 1971
• The Australian Cinema, 1970
• Science Fiction in the Cinema, 1970
• Hollywood in the Thirties, 1968

[edit] Filmography

• The Time Guardian, 1987

[edit] Internet links

• http://www.chozenbooks.com/home/johnbaxterbio.htm, with an extensive bibliography
• http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/john-baxter/

[edit] References

1. ^ The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 1995, edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls, p. 98.
2. ^ http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2100/252/2/02WholeThesis.pdf