Herrold, David

Jerrold David Friedman was born January 24, 1944 in Chicago ( Illinois ). He studied at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Northridge in the areas of journalism , cinema and theater . After graduation, Gerrold worked as an assistant manager in the department store’s toy department, in an adult bookstore, and as a television producer; he wrote column reviews in the science fiction magazines Zvyozdny Log and Galileo, and a column in the computer magazine Profiles.

In September 1966, Herrold wrote a script for an episode of the Star Trek television series entitled Tomorrow Was Yesterday , one of the storylines of which was subsequently redesigned into a full-fledged series and filmed under the title Problem with Tribunes ( The Trouble With Tribbles ), becoming, according to Paramount Pictures , the most popular series in the history of this television show.

Since 1976, for several years, Diana Dwayne worked as an assistant to Herrold, later she herself became a famous writer.

From 1982 to 1999, Gerrold taught a screenwriting course at the University of Malibu .

• 1965 - Award from the Educational Film Library for the 10-minute short A Positive Look At Negative Numbers (for Sigma Educational Films).
• 1979 - Edward E. Smith Memorial Award .
• 1994 - The Nebula Award in the Short Story (Novellette) nomination for My son, a Martian ( born The 1994 The Martian Child ).
• 1995 - The Locus Award in the Short Novellette nomination for My son is a Martian ( The Martian Child , 1994).
• 1995 - Award Hugo Award in the nomination Short story (Novellette) for My son is a Martian ( born The 1994 The Martian Child ).
• 1995 - HOMer Prize for the story “My Son is a Martian” (1994).

David's first published novel was The Flying Sorcerers (1971), co-authored by Larry Niven ^[1] . In 1972, the sci-fi novel “When HARLEY turned one year old” ^[2] , nominated for the Hugo, Nebulla, and Locus awards, followed. In it, for almost the first time, the principle of the operation of worm - like programs was described. In 1988, the novel was revised and reprinted under the title “When HARLEY turned one year old (Version 2.0).”

Then came two notable novels: “Dubbed” ( The Man Who Folded Himself , 1973) and “Moon Star Odyssey” ( Eng. Moonstar Odyssey , 1977), in which Herrold, externally following classical models, canonized by the authors "Golden ( Campbell ) Century", violates the unshakable taboo of early science fiction : sex ^[3] . In the first novel, the protagonist, propagated, enters into a loving relationship with himself, while the action of the second novel takes place on a planet inhabited by androgynous people who are not separated by gender. The novel Dubbed was nominated for the Hugo, Nebulla, Locus, and Jupiter Prizes.

In 1970, Gerrold met the famous science fiction Robert Heinlein , which influenced the development of his work. In the best traditions of Heinlein's "Star Landing," a series was written about the war of the American National Guards with an alien monster: "The Case for Real Men" ( Eng. A Matter for Men , 1983) ^[4] , "Curse Day" ( Eng. A Day for Damnation , 1984), The Rage of Vengeance ( A Rage for Revenge , 1989), and The Time of Slaughter ( A Season for Slaughter , 1992). All novels are part of the War Against the Chtorr cycle . Three novels from the cycle (A Method For Madness, A Time For Treason, and A Case For Courage) are not finished yet. Fragments of the upcoming novel “A Time For Treason” were published in the story “It Needs Salt” (2007).

Within the framework of the Star Trek project, Gerrold wrote both for the original series (“ The Problem with Tribbles ”, 1967) and for the sequels (“Encounter at the Far Frontier” ( Encounter at Farpoint , 1987). About his work together with Gene Roddenbury and other creators of the series, Herrold recalls in the books “ The World of Star Trek ” (1973) and “On Board the Enterprise” ( English Boarding the Enterprise: Transporters, Tribbles, and the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek , 2006; co-authored by Robert Sawyer ).

In 1985, Gerrold, co-authored with Barry Longyear, wrote the eponymous novel-novelization of the script of the popular film “My Enemy” ^[5] .

David Herrold has several cycles. The Trackers dilogy, which includes the novels “Under the Eye of God” (1993; excerpts from the novel were published in a separate short story “Looking Forward” in the same year) and “A Covenant of Justice” (1994).

Another series of space works, Star Wolf, which includes novels:

• “Yesterday's Children” (Starhunt, 1972);
• “The StarWolf Wanderings” (Voyage of the Star Wolf, 1990);
• “The Middle of Nowhere” (1995);
• "Blood and Fire" (2004).

The story “My son is a Martian” ( Eng. The Martian Child , 1994), which received several literary prizes at once, served as the basis for the novel of the same name, released in 2002 ^[6] . Excerpts from the novel in 2007 amounted to the novel "Pickled Mongoose". In the same year, based on the plot of Gerrold, the film-drama “Martian Child” (in the Russian box office “Child from Mars” ) was shot, starring John Cusack , Amanda Peet , Joan Cusack and others.

In 1995, several comics were written for the Babylon 5 project ( Duet in C Sharp for Man and Narn ^[7] , Coda in B Flat for Man and Narn ^[8] ).

David Gerrold participated in the Sherlock Holmes collaborative cycle . Free sequels to The Fan Who Molded Himself (1995) included in Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (1995; Sherlock Holmes in Orbit , 1995; compiled by Martin G. Greenberg, Mike Resnick ).

In the period from 2000 to 2002, Herrold released the trilogy "Star Riders" (The Dingilliad Trilogy / Starsiders):

• “Jumping Off the Planet” (2000) - it is based on the novel of the same name in 1994;
• “Bouncing Off the Moon” (2001);
• "Leaping to the Stars" (2002).

In 2005, David began a new cycle in the Child of Earth novel, the trilogy The Sea of ​​Grass, designed for both adults and children. In 2007, the story "Jellyfish" was published, co-written with Mike Reznik . In addition to prose, Herrold has two collections of poems, The Satanic Limericks, also published in 2007.

• Official site of David Herrold .
• David Gerrold on fantlab.ru .
• David Gerrold in the library of Maxim Moshkov