Return to Mark/Space
Born 1944 in Tehran. [Although the publisher's bumpf in Planet of the Voles states that he was born in 1949, in Scotland.] But check the personal version...
"Charles Platt...spent most of his childhood in England as the adopted son of Lord [Sir Robert] Platt of Cambridge. He dropped out of [Cambridge] university to pursue interests in writing, music, and graphic design. For five years he was designer of New Worlds , the iconoclastic literary/science fiction magazine. He also wrote a couple of tongue-in-cheek science fiction novels, a biography of a striptease artiste, and an intercourse positions guide. In 1970 Platt emigrated to America, where he found employment as a consulting editor to Avon Books in New York and also taught college courses in science fiction and in home repairs. To date Platt has written fifteen books [40 books as of 1997, ed.], ranging from erotica to a handbook on outdoor survival." [publisher's bumpf, in The Gas , UK pbk, 1980]
"I teach computer graphics (primarily for print media) and have also taught classes in writing, programming, and literature.
"I have been an editor at three different New York publishing companies, have produced my own little magazine of commentary on book publishing, and own a small press that has taken on far more projects than it has actually published." --Charles Platt (1997).
Charles Platt also published and edited a science fiction zine called REM ... Issue #3, February 1986, featured the first publication of Rudy Rucker's essay "What Is Cyberpunk?".
Platt wrote the software for a cellular automata program called 'Cell Systems'.
"Charles Platt contributes frequent feature articles on computer-related topics to Wired magazine and is author of The Silicon Man chosen by The New York Times as one of the three best science fiction novels of the year." [publisher's bumpf, in Protektor , US pbk, 1996]
"Born in Great Britain, I emigrated to the United States in 1970 and followed a primary career as a novelist and science writer." --Charles Platt (1997).
"I was one of the founders of CryoCare, a cryonics organization based in California. Currently I write and edit their literature. I also provide limited emergency response services.
"Monthly columnist for Interzone magazine, 1989-94. Occasional Book-review columnist for Washington Post Book World and The New York Review of Science Fiction . Was a columnist for Hayakawa SF Magazine (Japan, 1990), Science Fiction Chronicle (1984), Fantasy and Science Fiction (1989-1994), and The Los Angeles Free Press (1971)." --Charles Platt (1997).
Charles Platt Homepage*note: Please send URLs to any Charles Platt pages (include title of page and a brief review of contents).
(new site under construction... the quotes attributed to Charles Platt come from this page... link sent in by Mitchell Porter)
To reach Charles Platt himself:
Return to Mark/Space