Avram Davidson

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Avram Davidson (23 April 1923 - 8 May 1993) was an American writer born in Yonkers, New York. He served in the U.S. Navy as a hospital corpsman with the Marines in the Pacific during World War II, and as a medic with Israeli forces in 1948-1949. He began publishing in 1948, and his story "Or All the Seas with Oysters" won a Hugo Award in 1958. He edited The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1962 to 1964, and received the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement in 1986. Besides the Vergil Magus novels he wrote the Peregrine novels, the Jack Limekiller stories and the Dr. Eszterhazy stories, and he co-wrote Joyleg with Ward Moore. He died in Bremerton, Washington.

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Books

• The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969) · Vergil Magus Core Canon
• Vergil in Averno (1987) · Vergil Magus Core Canon
• The Scarlet Fig; or, Slowly Through a Land of Stone (2005) · Vergil Magus Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 3 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 nomination)

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