Bredenberg, Jeff
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1953-2010) US author known in the sf field primarily for his Dream Compass sequence of Post-Holocaust novels, comprising The Dream Compass (1991) and The Dream Vessel (1992). Though the venue is not innovatory – in a continent named Merqua [ie America], a geriatric "Monitor" attempts to stifle the young, who wish to be permitted to read again; and a rebel band escapes to a more enlightened Island culture, from which new worlds of hope may lie in the offing – Bredenberg conveys his story with aphoristic swiftness. His third novel, The Man in the Moon Must Die (1993), a singleton, is a Matter Transmission tale, in which the original version of a man duplicated in error is hunted down as being legally dead. After some short stories, Bredenberg turned to nonfiction. [JC]
Jeffrey Ellis Bredenberg
born Raleigh, North Carolina: 26 November 1953
died Oreland, Pennsylvania: 2 March 2010
works
series
Dream Compass
- The Dream Compass (New York: Avon Books, 1991) [Dream Compass: pb/Gary Ruddell]
- The Dream Vessel (New York: AvoNova, 1992) [Dream Compass: pb/Lee MacLeod]
individual titles
- The Man in the Moon Must Die (New York: AvoNova, 1993) [pb/Alan Craddock]
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