After Redbeard (1969), he stepped away from SF for some time, instead writing pseudonymous erotica and Gothic novels (likely numbering in the hundreds) before returning to the field and his own byline in 1980 with tie-in Battlestar Galactica 5: Galactica Discovers Earth (1980, with Glen A. He followed that with the Ganymede series: The Goddess of Ganymede (1967) and Pursuit on Ganymede (1968). Resnick began publishing with Edgar Rice Burroughs-inspired novella The Forgotten Sea of Mars (1965). In all, he produced over 70 novels, more than 25 collections, hundreds of stories and articles, and edited over 40 anthologies. He was a finalist for 11 Nebula Awards, and won for “Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge”. His winners and nominees appear in Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy (2012). His Hugo Award winners include his first nomination “Kirinyaga” (1988), “The Manamouki” (1990), “Seven Views of Olduval Gorge” (1994), “The 43 Antarean Dynasties” (1997), and “Travels with My Cats” (2004), and his most recent fiction nomination was for “The Homecoming” (2011). Resnick was a prolific and acclaimed SF, nominated 27 times for Hugo Awards and winning five. Chronicle Poll six times and the Asimov's Readers Poll twice.Author Mike Resnick, 77, died Januof lymphoma. He has also won 10 Homer Awards, an Alexander Award, a Golden Pagoda Award, the Seiun Award (Japanese), a Hayakawa SF Award (Japanese), a Locus Award, an Ignotus Award (Spanish), a Futura Award (Croatian), the Tour Eiffel Award (French), the Prix Ozone (French), two Sfinks Awards and a Fantastyka Award (both Polish), and has topped the S. Since 1989, he has won four Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and has been nominated for 19 Hugos, eight Nebulas, a Clarke (British), and five Seiun-shos (Japanese).

His list of anthologies in print and in press totals more than 20. Stories in 1988, Resnick has also become an anthology editor, and was nominated for a Best Editor Hugo in 19. He edited 7 different tabloid newspapers and a pair of men's magazines, as well. Resnick began writing stories under various pseudonyms and churned out more than 200 novels, 300 short stories and 2,000 articles, from1964 through1976. He attended the University of Chicago from1959 through 1961. He sold his first article in 1957, his first short story in 1959, and his first book in 1962.

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