Prometheus: the autobiography

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by Uncle River

Category: modern mythology

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Oh, yeah: I also am not the only immortal. But I have seen a few things before that you have not.

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Ordering Information

ISBN: 1-890109-55-0
$13.50 US
imprint: CrossTIME
164 pages
trade size soft cover

About the Author

At the time of Uncle River's birth in 1947, both his parents were in analysis with a pupil of Sigmund Freud's, who had come to America as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Uncle River's father was a psychiatric resident, which in those days provided an apartment in the mental hospital where he worked. The patients were River's first babysitters. He thus came to initial awareness believing that sanity was an important subject.

Uncle River went on to earn what he believes to be the only doctorate in Psychology of the Unconscious through the Union Institute in 1974 and completed private training in Jungian Analysis in 1976.

Immediately thereafter, the world pulled several nasty tricks which cast River in doubt about the credentials he had exerted so much effort to acquire. He let go entirely of his expected professional role and started writing under the byline of Uncle River for a periodical called The Wellspring. Instead of the analyst he thought he was studying to be, he found himself among a community who knew and respected his work, but related to it in the much older role of shaman and bard.

In recent years, Uncle River's writing has found growing outlet, notably in Speculative Fiction publications, including Asimov's, Analog, Amazing Stories, Interzone, Absolute Magnitude, and the Year's Best Fantasy 2 anthology edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. Several of his stories have been included in the Honorable Mention lists of Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies. One story published in Talebones was on the Preliminary Nebula Ballot and a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award for Year's Best SF story. His stories also have appeared, in translation, in Russia, both legitimately and pirated.

Uncle River's "Mogollon News", fictitious news from the real New Mexico ghost town where River lived for five years in the late 80s, ran in several newspapers and as a weekly feature on Public Radio Station KRWG, Las Cruces. Later the "Mogollon News" became a regular feature in the United Kingdom in BBR and online in Southern New Mexico Online Magazine. River also has published poetry and nonfiction, including a social philosophy column currently running in the Silver City (New Mexico) Sun-News.

River's first novel, Thunder Mountain: a Southwest Speculative Fiction, appeared in 1996 from Mother Bird Books.