Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood just behind the one you found yourself contemplating. The trick, but it wasn't a trick, was to take up at once the thing you saw and the reason you saw it as well; to always bite off more than you could chew, and then chew it. If it were self-indulgence for him to cut and polish his semiprecious memories, and yet seem like danger, like a struggle he was unfit for, then self-indulgence was a potent force, he must examine it, he must reckon with it.

He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer. In 1987 Crowley embarked on an ambitious four-volume novel Ægypt comprising The Solitudes (originally publiJohn Crowleyd as Ægypt) Love & Sleep Dæmonomania and Endless Things publiJohn Crowleyd in May 2007. 1997: Gone received the Locus Award for Best Short Story
1999: "La Grande oeuvre du temps" the French language edition of "Great Work of Time" (translated by Monique LeBailly) won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nouvelle étrangère (Grand Prize for translated story)
2003: The Translator received the Italian Premio Flaiano[citation needed]
2006: World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement


Bibliography


Novels
The Deep Doubleday (1975)
Beasts Doubleday (1976)
Engine Summer Doubleday (1979) — Bantam Books edition 1980 with cover art by Elizabeth Malczynski — John W.

John Crowley (born December 1 1942) is an American author of fantasy science fiction and mainstream fiction. He is best known as the author of Little Big (1981) which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and has been called "a neglected masterpiece" by Harold Bloom and his Aegypt series of novels which revolve around the same themes of Hermeticism memory families and religion.