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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Ants Who Took Away by KOTZWINKLE, William. Nationality: American. Born: Scranton, Pennsylvania, 22 November 1938. Education: Attended Rider College and Pennsylvania State University. Family: Married Elizabeth Gundy in 1970. Career: Worked as a short order cook and editor/writer in the 1960s; full time writer, 1960s — . Awards: National Magazine awards for fiction, 1972, 1975; O'Henry prize, 1975; World Award for best , 1977; North Dakota Children's Choice Award, 1983; Buckeye Award, 1984. Address: c/o David R. Godine, Inc., Horticultural Hall, 300 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, U.S.A. Publications. . Hermes 3000 (). New York, Pantheon, 1972. The Fan Man , drawings by Keith Bendis. New York, Avon, 1974. Night-Book. New York, Avon, 1974. Swimmer in the Secret Sea. New York, Avon, 1975. Doctor Rat (science fiction). New York, Knopf, 1976. Fata Morgana. New York, Knopf, 1977. Herr Nightingale and the Satin Woman. New York, Knopf, 1978. Jack in the Box. New York, Putnam, 1980; published as Book of Love. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Christmas at Fontaine's , illustrations by Joe Servello. New York, Putnam, 1982. E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial Storybook (juvenile, novelization of screenplay by ). New York, Putnam, 1982. Superman III (novelization of screenplay by David and ). New York, Warner, 1983. Queen of Swords , illustrations by Joe Servello. New York, Putnam, 1983. E.T., the Storybook of the Green Planet: A New Storybook (juvenile, based on story by Steven Spielberg), illustrations by David Wiesner. New York, Putnam, 1985. The Exile. New York, Dutton/Lawrence, 1987. The Midnight Examiner. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1989. Hot Jazz Trio , illustrations by Joe Servello. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1989. The Game of Thirty. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1994. The Bear Went over the Mountain. New York, Doubleday, 1996. Fiction (for children) . New York, Pantheon, 1969. The Ship That Came Down the Gutter . New York, Pantheon, 1970. Elephant Boy: A Story of the Stone Age . New York, Farrar, Straus, 1970. The Day the Gang Got Rich . New York, Viking, 1970. The Return of Crazy Horse . New York, Farrar, Straus, 1971. The Supreme, Superb, Exalted, and Delightful, One and Only Magic Building . New York, Farrar, Straus, 1973. Up the Alley with Jack and Joe . New York, Macmillan, 1974. The Leopard's Tooth . New York, Seabury Press, 1976. The Ants Who Took Away Time . New York, Doubleday, 1978. Dream of Dark Harbor . New York, Doubleday, 1979. The Nap Master . New York, Harcourt, 1979. The World Is Big and I'm So Small , illustrations by Joe Servello. Crown, 1986. The Empty Notebook , illustrations by Joe Servello. Boston, Godine, 1990. The Million Dollar Bear , illustrations by David Catrow. New York, Random House, 1994. Short Stories. Elephant Bangs Train. New York, Pantheon, 1971. The Oldest Man, and Other Timeless Stories (juvenile). New York, Pantheon, 1971. Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries (juvenile), illustrations by Joe Servello. Boston, Godine, 1983. Jewel of the Moon. New York, Putnam, 1985. Hearts of Wood, and Other Timeless Tales (juvenile), illustrations by Joe Servello. Boston, Godine, 1986. Tales from the Empty Notebook (juvenile), illustrations by Joe Servello. New York, Marlow, 1996. Poetry. Great World Circus (juvenile), illustrations by Joe Servello. New York, Putnam, 1983. Seduction in Berlin , illustrations by Joe Servello. New York, Putnam, 1985. Other. The Dream Master (with Brian Helgeland), based on characters created by Wes Craven, adapted by Bob Italia. Edina, Minnesota, Abdo & Daughters, 1992. William Kotzwinkle is an accomplished author who is best known for his book of the film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial , but who has produced a range of work for both adults and children that often transgresses genre boundaries and the distinction between serious and popular fiction. His key theme is the conflict between materialism and spiritual awareness, a conflict that he sometimes explores through fantasy and sometimes through satire. Beginning as a children's writer with The Fireman , he then published novels for adults such as Hermes 3000 , The Fan Man , and Queen of Swords , which began to establish him as an original and distinctive novelist and won him praise from, for example, Kurt Vonnegut. But it was Doctor Rat that made his reputation as a powerful fantasy writer with a sharp satirical edge. The novel focuses upon laboratory rats whose spokesman, the Doctor Rat of the title, eventually escapes from the vast laboratory where experiments on his fellow-creatures are taking place, and whose adventures are interwoven with shorter tales told by animals of different kinds who finally try to form a whole that will make humans more peaceful and benign. But they are all killed. Parallel, intersecting worlds are a favorite theme of Kotzwinkle's, and his most remarkable novel in this respect is Fata Morgana . Starting in Paris in 1861, and structured around three Tarot cards — The Fool, the Valet of Coins, and the Magician — it combines elements of fantasy and of the detective story. The tale traces the quest of a case-hardened French detective, Inspector Picard, to expose the truth about Ric Lazare, a dazzling magician whom Picard believes to be a fake and a killer. Picard's journey across Europe to probe the magician's past takes him into the beds of beautiful women and into strange worlds in which reality and illusion merge. He finally reaches the powerful and threatening Fata Morgana, but the difference between illusion and reality remains uncertain at the end of the novel. Further novels of Kotzwinkle's that combine detection with fantasy and the supernatural include Herr Nightingale and the Satin Woman and The Midnight Examiner . Among Kotzwinkle's other notable novels are The Exile , in which a movie star is trapped in the body of a World War II German gangster who is eventually tortured by the Gestapo, and The Game of Thirty , in which a game that survives from ancient is played out again on the streets of modern New York. New York is also the setting for much of The Bear Went over the Mountain , an engaging animal fantasy for adults and a hilarious satire on literary and media success in the modern world. A large black bear, finding a manuscript written and abandoned by a literary academic under a tree, reads it because he cannot eat it, and, styling himself Hal Jam — his favorite food — he goes to New York and is taken up as a writer who might possibly be the next Hemingway. When the literary academic sues him for stealing his novel, the bear wins the case and his literary standing is assured. Kotzwinkle's ability to write in a variety of genres and to combine elements of those genres in specific works has made him difficult to classify, while his willingness to produce film tie-ins in the 1980s has sometimes given the impression that he is solely a commercial writer. But in his best work, such as Fata Morgana and The Bear Went over the Mountain , there can be no doubt of his narrative skills and his capacity to produce both suggestive fantasy and shrewd satire that is engaging and penetrating. This has won him a devoted following, but his most substantial fiction merits a wider readership and a more detailed critical examination than it has so far received. William Kotzwinkle. William Kotzwinkle is an American novelist, children's writer, and screenwriter. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He has won the for Best Novel for Doctor Rat in 1977, and has also won the National Magazine Award for fiction. Kotzwinkle wrote the novelization of the screenplay for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial . [1] Contents. List of works Novels Collections Short stories Children's books Screenplays Notes External links. He has been married to author Elizabeth Gundy since 1965. [2] List of works. Novels. Hermes 3000 (1972) The Fan Man (1974) Night Book (1974) Swimmer in the Secret Sea (1975) (a published in mass-market paperback format, as a sort of chapbook) Doctor Rat (1976) Fata Morgana (1977) Herr Nightingale And the Satin Woman (1978) (graphic novel, illustrated Joe Servello) Jack in the Box (1980) (later re-titled as Book of Love at the release of the movie based on it) Christmas at Fontaine's (1982) Superman III (1983) (based on the screenplay by David Newman and Leslie Newman) Great World Circus (1983) (illustrated Joe Servello) Queen of Swords (1983) Seduction in Berlin (1985) (long story poem, illustrated Joe Servello) The Exile (1987) The Midnight Examiner (1989) The Game of Thirty (1994) (reissued 2007 as The Game of 30) The Bear Went Over the Mountain (1996) The Amphora Project (2005) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial series. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) (based on Melissa Mathison's screenplay) E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet (1985) Collections. Elephant Bangs Train (1971) (short stories) The Oldest Man: And Other Timeless Stories (1971) (juvenile) Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries (1983) (juvenile) Jewel of the Moon (1985) (short stories) Hearts of Wood: And Other Timeless Tales (1986) (juvenile) The Hot Jazz Trio (1989) (3 short stories, illustrated Joe Servello) Tales from the Empty Notebook (1995) (juvenile) Double Trouble in Bugland : A New Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries (2016) (juvenile) Short stories. "The Curio Shop" (1980) "Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods" (1988) "Blues on the Nile: A Fragment of Papyrus" (1989) "Boxcar Blues" (1989) "Django Reinhardt Played the Blues" (1989) "Horse Badorties Goes Out" (1973) "The Magician" Children's books. The Firemen (1969) Elephant Boy: A Story of the Stone Age (1970) The Day the Gang Got Rich (1970) The Ship That Came Down The Gutter (1970) The Return of Crazy Horse (1971) The Supreme, Superb, Exalted and Delightful, One and Only Magic Building (1973) Up the Alley with Jack and Joe (1974) The Leopard's Tooth (1976) The Ants Who Took Away Time (1978) Dream of Dark Harbor: A Ghostly Sea Story (1979) The Nap Master (1979) The World Is Big and I'm So Small (1986) ISBN 0-517-56310-X The Empty Notebook (1990) The Million-Dollar Bear (1995) Walter the Farting Dog series (with Glenn Murray and Elizabeth Gundy) [3] (illustrations by Audrey Colman) Walter the Farting Dog (2001) ISBN 1-58394-053-7 (published in Latin as Walter, Canis Inflatus (2004) ISBN 1-58394-110-X) Walter the Farting Dog: Trouble at the Yard Sale (2004) ISBN 0-525-47217-7 (also published as Walter the Farting Dog Farts Again ) Rough Weather Ahead for Walter the Farting Dog (2005) ISBN 0-525-47218-5 Walter the Farting Dog goes on a Cruise (2006) ISBN 0-525-47714-4 Walter The Farting Dog: Banned From the Beach (June 21, 2007) ISBN 0-525-47812-4. Screenplays. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) (original story, for the film) Book of Love (1990) (adapted from his novel Jack in the Box , for the film) Notes. ↑"E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Teacher's Notes" (PDF) . Penguin Active Reading, Teacher Support Program, Pearson Education Limited. c. 2009 . Retrieved June 30, 2010 . ↑ Eady, Brenda (27 May 1985). "From Any Angle, E.t.'s Biographer William Kotzwinkle Is Not An Alien to Success". People . 23 (21). ↑ Subsequent volumes identify Gundy as an uncredited contributor on the earlier books. The later books give her a co-author credit. External links. Official website Lewis, Leon (2002). Eccentric Individuality in William Kotzwinkle's "The Fan Man", "E.T.", "Doctor Rat" and Other Works of Fiction and Fantasy . ISBN 9780773473102 . Works by or about William Kotzwinkle in libraries ( WorldCat catalog) William Kotzwinkle Biography at FantasticFiction.co.uk Ron Hogan (1996). "Interview with William Kotzwinkle". www.beatrice.com . The Beatrice Interview. William Kotzwinkle on IMDb William Kotzwinkle at the Internet Database. v t e. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip (1975) by (1976) Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle (1977) by (1978) by (1979) by Elizabeth A. Lynn (1980) The Shadow of the Torturer by (1981) Little, Big by (1982) Nifft the Lean by (1983) by John M. Ford (1984) by (1985, tie) by Barry Hughart (1985, tie) Song of Kali by (1986) by Patrick Suskind (1987) by (1988) by (1989) Lyonesse: Madouc by (1990) by James K. Morrow (1991, tie) Thomas the Rhymer by (1991, tie) Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon (1992, tie) by Tim (1993) Glimpses by (1994) Towing Jehovah by James K. Morrow (1995) by Christopher Priest (1996) Godmother Night by (1997) The Physiognomy by (1998) The Antelope Wife by (1999) by Martin Scott (2000) by (2001, tie) Galveston by (2001, tie) by Ursula K. Le Guin (2002) The Facts of Life by (2003, tie) Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip (2003, tie) by (2004) Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by (2005) by (2006) by Gene Wolfe (2007) by (2008) The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford (2009, tie) Tender Morsels by (2009, tie) The City & the City by China Miéville (2010) by (2011) by (2012) by G. Willow Wilson (2013) A Stranger in Olondria by (2014) by (2015) The Chimes by Anna Smaill (2016) The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North (2017) by Fonda Lee / The Changeling by Victor LaValle (2018) by C. L. Polk (2019) BNE: XX1112607 BNF: cb11910017s(data) GND: 115593918 ISNI: 0000 0001 1029 6819 LCCN: n79095429 NDL: 00446213 NKC: xx0009996 NLK: KAC199615374 NTA: 068157231 SNAC: w6tv7h33 SUDOC: 026952947 Trove: 1203984 VIAF: 76317924 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n79095429. Related Research Articles. is an English playwright, novelist, film director, and visual artist. 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Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. ** Please note ABE shipping fees are but estimates; actual fees may be higher [or lower] depending on the weight of the book shipped & shipping destination** THE ANTS WHO TOOK AWAY TIME. A far-out but not filled-out sci-fi fantasy, about how some giant ants bring time to a stop but a slippery kid named Ducky helps start it up again. The trouble begins when Mr. Feldhammer, Keeper of Time in the Giant Gold Watch that hangs in the center of the universe, ducks outside of time for a vacation. When the ants get in and disrupt the works--so that the President's mouth stops moving in the middle of a speech, trains come to a halt between stations, and a Western tough guy freezes with one foot in the stirrup--Ducky helps assistant keeper Hank Dribley get Outside to fetch Mr. Feldhammer and retrieve the clock parts from space. Later a Time Warp (""a weird little being"") makes Dribley grow backwards to babyhood and, in a last battle, transforms itself into a high chair, a crib, and a baby carriage before Ducky transforms it into a soapbox racer and saves the day. Kotzwinkle clips along at a whirlwind pace, without stopping to introduce us properly to Ducky or to play with the implications of the time disturbances--for example, time runs backwards now and then but it's treated here merely as an annoying roadblock that momentarily delays the rushing heroes. Servello's swirling pictures couldn't express more agitation, but his pop-fantasy style is not well served by the pale, limited-color (blue and dull yellow) production. Much ado of little moment. William Kotzwinkle Biography. Nationality: American. Born: Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1938. Education: Attended Rider College and Pennsylvania State University. Career: Worked as a short order cook and editor/writer in the 1960s; full time writer, 1960s—. Awards: National Magazine awards for fiction, 1972, 1975; O'Henry prize, 1975; World Fantasy Award for best novel, 1977; North Dakota Children's Choice Award, 1983; Buckeye Award, 1984. P UBLICATIONS. Novels. Hermes 3000 (science fiction). New York, Pantheon, 1972. The Fan Man , drawings by Keith Bendis. New York, Avon, 1974. Night-Book. New York, Avon, 1974. Swimmer in the Secret Sea. New York, Avon, 1975. Doctor Rat (science fiction). New York, Knopf, 1976. Fata Morgana. New York, Knopf, 1977. Herr Nightingale and the Satin Woman. New York, Knopf, 1978. Jack in the Box. New York, Putnam, 1980; published as Book of Love. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Christmas at Fontaine's , illustrations by Joe Servello. New York, Putnam, 1982. E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial Storybook (juvenile, novelization of screenplay by Melissa Mathison). New York, Putnam, 1982. Superman III (novelization of screenplay by David and Leslie Newman). New York, Warner, 1983. Queen of Swords , illustrations by Joe Servello. New York, Putnam, 1983. E.T., the Storybook of the Green Planet: A New Storybook (juvenile, based on story by Steven Spielberg), illustrations by David Wiesner. New York, Putnam, 1985. The Exile. New York, Dutton/Lawrence, 1987. The Midnight Examiner. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1989. Hot Jazz Trio , illustrations by Joe Servello. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1989. The Game of Thirty. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1994. The Bear Went over the Mountain. New York, Doubleday, 1996. Fiction (for children) The Fireman . New York, Pantheon, 1969. The Ship That Came Down the Gutter . New York, Pantheon, 1970. Elephant Boy: A Story of the Stone Age . New York, Farrar, Straus, 1970. The Day the Gang Got Rich . New York, Viking, 1970. The Return of Crazy Horse . New York, Farrar, Straus, 1971. The Supreme, Superb, Exalted, and Delightful, One and Only Magic Building . New York, Farrar, Straus, 1973. Up the Alley with Jack and Joe . New York, Macmillan, 1974. The Leopard's Tooth . New York, Seabury Press, 1976. The Ants Who Took Away Time . New York, Doubleday, 1978. Dream of Dark Harbor . New York, Doubleday, 1979. The Nap Master . New York, Harcourt, 1979. The World Is Big and I'm So Small , illustrations by Joe Servello. Crown, 1986. The Empty Notebook , illustrations by Joe Servello. Boston, Godine, 1990. The Million Dollar Bear , illustrations by David Catrow. New York, Random House, 1994. Short Stories. Elephant Bangs Train. New York, Pantheon, 1971. The Oldest Man, and Other Timeless Stories (juvenile). New York, Pantheon, 1971. Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries (juvenile), illustrations by Joe Servello. Boston, Godine, 1983. Jewel of the Moon. New York, Putnam, 1985. Hearts of Wood, and Other Timeless Tales (juvenile), illustrations by Joe Servello. Boston, Godine, 1986. Tales from the Empty Notebook (juvenile), illustrations by Joe Servello. New York, Marlow, 1996. Poetry. Great World Circus (juvenile), illustrations by Joe Servello. New York, Putnam, 1983. Seduction in Berlin , illustrations by Joe Servello. New York, Putnam, 1985. Other. The Dream Master (with Brian Helgeland), based on characters created by Wes Craven, adapted by Bob Italia. Edina, Minnesota, Abdo & Daughters, 1992. William Kotzwinkle is an accomplished author who is best known for his book of the film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial , but who has produced a range of work for both adults and children that often transgresses genre boundaries and the distinction between serious and popular fiction. His key theme is the conflict between materialism and spiritual awareness, a conflict that he sometimes explores through fantasy and sometimes through satire. Beginning as a children's writer with The Fireman , he then published novels for adults such as Hermes 3000 , The Fan Man , and Queen of Swords , which began to establish him as an original and distinctive novelist and won him praise from, for example, Kurt Vonnegut. But it was Doctor Rat that made his reputation as a powerful fantasy writer with a sharp satirical edge. The novel focuses upon laboratory rats whose spokesman, the Doctor Rat of the title, eventually escapes from the vast laboratory where experiments on his fellow-creatures are taking place, and whose adventures are interwoven with shorter tales told by animals of different kinds who finally try to form a whole that will make humans more peaceful and benign. But they are all killed. Parallel, intersecting worlds are a favorite theme of Kotzwinkle's, and his most remarkable novel in this respect is Fata Morgana . Starting in Paris in 1861, and structured around three Tarot cards—The Fool, the Valet of Coins, and the Magician—it combines elements of fantasy and of the detective story. The tale traces the quest of a case-hardened French detective, Inspector Picard, to expose the truth about Ric Lazare, a dazzling magician whom Picard believes to be a fake and a killer. Picard's journey across Europe to probe the magician's past takes him into the beds of beautiful women and into strange worlds in which reality and illusion merge. He finally reaches the powerful and threatening Fata Morgana, but the difference between illusion and reality remains uncertain at the end of the novel. Further novels of Kotzwinkle's that combine detection with fantasy and the supernatural include Herr Nightingale and the Satin Woman and The Midnight Examiner . Among Kotzwinkle's other notable novels are The Exile , in which a movie star is trapped in the body of a World War II German gangster who is eventually tortured by the Gestapo, and The Game of Thirty , in which a game that survives from ancient Egypt is played out again on the streets of modern New York. New York is also the setting for much of The Bear Went over the Mountain , an engaging animal fantasy for adults and a hilarious satire on literary and media success in the modern world. A large black bear, finding a manuscript written and abandoned by a literary academic under a tree, reads it because he cannot eat it, and, styling himself Hal Jam—his favorite food—he goes to New York and is taken up as a writer who might possibly be the next Hemingway. When the literary academic sues him for stealing his novel, the bear wins the case and his literary standing is assured. Kotzwinkle's ability to write in a variety of genres and to combine elements of those genres in specific works has made him difficult to classify, while his willingness to produce film tie-ins in the 1980s has sometimes given the impression that he is solely a commercial writer. But in his best work, such as Fata Morgana and The Bear Went over the Mountain , there can be no doubt of his narrative skills and his capacity to produce both suggestive fantasy and shrewd satire that is engaging and penetrating. This has won him a devoted following, but his most substantial fiction merits a wider readership and a more detailed critical examination than it has so far received.