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He was introduced to fiction while playing tabletop role-playing games (''Dungeons & Dragons'') when he was teenager. He discovered a vocation of being a storyteller while remixing a novel from the ''Dragonlance Saga'' in 6th grade.<ref>{{Citation | year=2018 | title=Interview with Tom Sweterlitsch | url=https://civilianreader.com/2018/02/01/interview-with-tom-sweterlitsch/ | access-date=9 January 2022}}</ref>. He was playing as a game master or if he was a player as a paladin.<ref name="methosci">{{Cite episode| credits = Nicolas Martin | title = Grand entretien avec Tom Sweterlitsch| work = France Culture| series=La méthode scientifique|accessdate = 2022-01-09| date = 2021-12-24| minutes = 59 | url = https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-methode-scientifique/entretien-avec-tom-sweterlitsch}}</ref> |
He was introduced to fiction while playing tabletop role-playing games (''Dungeons & Dragons'') when he was teenager. He discovered a vocation of being a storyteller while remixing a novel from the ''Dragonlance Saga'' in 6th grade.<ref>{{Citation | year=2018 | title=Interview with Tom Sweterlitsch | url=https://civilianreader.com/2018/02/01/interview-with-tom-sweterlitsch/ | access-date=9 January 2022}}</ref>. He was playing as a game master or if he was a player as a paladin.<ref name="methosci">{{Cite episode| credits = Nicolas Martin | title = Grand entretien avec Tom Sweterlitsch| work = France Culture| series=La méthode scientifique|accessdate = 2022-01-09| date = 2021-12-24| minutes = 59 | url = https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-methode-scientifique/entretien-avec-tom-sweterlitsch}}</ref> |
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The science fiction authors that influenced him are [[J. G. Ballard|J.G. Ballard]], [[Philip K. Dick]], [[Alice Sheldon]]<ref name="convwith"/> and the movies of [[Paul Verhoeven]]<ref name="methosci"/>. He is also influenced by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]<ref name="methosci"/> et [[Raymond Chandler]]<ref name="localauth"/>. |
The science fiction authors that influenced him are [[J. G. Ballard|J.G. Ballard]], [[Philip K. Dick]], [[Alice Sheldon]]<ref name="convwith"/> and the movies of [[Paul Verhoeven]]<ref name="methosci"/>. He is also influenced by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]<ref name="methosci"/> et [[Raymond Chandler]]<ref name="localauth"/>. He mentioned also [[William Gibson]], [[Jeff VanderMeer]] and [[Stephen King]]. Outside of science fiction, he mentioned that [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]], [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Fyodor Dostoevsky|Dostoevsky]] and [[Gustave Flaubert|Flaubert]] are important to him<ref name="reddit"/>. |
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More specifically, for ''Tomorrow and Tomorrow'', he was inspired by ''The Invention of Morel'', by [[Adolfo Bioy Casares]] and by ''The City & The City'' by [[China Miéville|China Mieville]]<ref name="reddit">{{Cite web| last = LetterSwitch| title = "I Am Scifi / Cyberpunk Author Thomas Sweterlitsch of Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Ama!"| work = r/books| format = Reddit Post| accessdate = 2022-01-10| date = 2014-07-16| url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220110041435/https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2avso1/i_am_scifi_cyberpunk_author_thomas_sweterlitsch/}}</ref>. For ''The Gone World'', he was inspired by conversations with « his late father-in-law, a U.S. Department of Defense physicist with whom he discussed time travel, and his brother-in-law, a real-life NCIS agent whom he once asked how time travel would affect criminal investigations. »<ref name="localauth"/> He also mentioned Dante, ''The Sandbox'' by [[Edward Albee]] and a crucifixion painting by [[Salvador Dalí|Salvador Dali]]. |
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Tom Sweterlitsch | |
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| Born | October 21, 1977 Iowa, United States |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Science fiction |
Tom Sweterlitsch (born 1977)[1] is an American writer, known best for the time traveling novel The Gone World and for a bleak cyperpunk novel Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
Publications
In Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Tom Sweterlitsch addresses the cultural shift of the recent years in a dystopian version of the United States. Facing depression, the main protagonist spend too much time in virtual reality, mourning his pregnant wife, dead in a nuclear terrorist attack that destroyed Pittsburgh.[2] He also addresses the problems raised by highly personalized advertising.[3][4][5]
In The Gone World, Tom Sweterlitsch uses time travel in a new way : people can travel only in the future, creating a temporary possibility that disappears when the traveler comes back. That technique is used for solving crimes out of the heat of the moment. Unfortunately, the protagonists discover the end of the world is getting closer and closer to the present as they explore the future.[6][7]
Inspirations
He was introduced to fiction while playing tabletop role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons) when he was teenager. He discovered a vocation of being a storyteller while remixing a novel from the Dragonlance Saga in 6th grade.[8]. He was playing as a game master or if he was a player as a paladin.[9]
The science fiction authors that influenced him are J.G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Alice Sheldon[7] and the movies of Paul Verhoeven[9]. He is also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe[9] et Raymond Chandler[10]. He mentioned also William Gibson, Jeff VanderMeer and Stephen King. Outside of science fiction, he mentioned that Dante, Emily Dickinson, Dostoevsky and Flaubert are important to him[11].
More specifically, for Tomorrow and Tomorrow, he was inspired by The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares and by The City & The City by China Mieville[11]. For The Gone World, he was inspired by conversations with « his late father-in-law, a U.S. Department of Defense physicist with whom he discussed time travel, and his brother-in-law, a real-life NCIS agent whom he once asked how time travel would affect criminal investigations. »[10] He also mentioned Dante, The Sandbox by Edward Albee and a crucifixion painting by Salvador Dali.
Personal life
He has a master's degree in Literary and Cultural Theory from Carnegie Mellon and worked for twelve years at the Carnegie Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
Born in Iowa, he was raised in Canton, Ohio. Then he moved to Pittsburgh where he is living currently with his wife and daughter.[10]
Bibliography
Novels and novellas
- The Gone World (2018)
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow (2014)
Short Fictions
- The Disposable Man (2012)
- The Sandbox Singularity (2018)
- Neuro-Dancer (2020)
Movie scripts
- Rakka (2017), with Oats Studios.
- Firebase (2017), with Oats Studios.
- Zygote (2017), with Oats Studios.
References
- ^ "Tom Sweterlitsch". GoodReads. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Humann, Heather Duerre (2019-08-13). "Reconstructing reality in Tomorrow and Tomorrow". Reality Simulation in Science Fiction Literature, Film and Television. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. pp. 66–75. ISBN 978-1-4766-7753-8.
- ^ Rieder, Gernot; Völker, Thomas (2020). "Datafictions: or how measurements and predictive analytics rule imagined future worlds". Journal of Science Communication. 19 (1): –02. doi:10.22323/2.19010202.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Vint, Sherryl (2015). "Introduction to 'the futures industry'" (PDF). Paradoxa. 27 (1): 7–19.
- ^ Schnelbach, Leah (2014-07-15). "Tomorrow and Tomorrow: Apocalypse in the Steel City". Tor.com. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ Liptak, Andrew (2018-03-03). "The Gone World is a brilliant, complicated novel about the consequences of time travel". The Verge. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ a b "A Conversation With Tom Sweterlitsch About "The Gone World"". MysteryTribune. 2018-01-05. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ Interview with Tom Sweterlitsch, 2018, retrieved 9 January 2022
- ^ a b c Nicolas Martin (2021-12-24). "Grand entretien avec Tom Sweterlitsch". La méthode scientifique. 59 minutes in. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
- ^ a b c O'Driscoll, Bill (2018-01-31). "Local author Tom Sweterlitsch on his second science-fiction novel — and his Hollywood connections". Pittsburgh City Paper. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ a b LetterSwitch (2014-07-16). ""I Am Scifi / Cyberpunk Author Thomas Sweterlitsch of Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Ama!"" (Reddit Post). r/books. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
