Teodor Roshak

Theodore Roszak is a contemporary American writer and publicist. He was born in 1933. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of California and later a doctorate in history from Princeton University. Since then, he has taught at various higher education institutions in the United States. He is the director of the Institute of Ecopsychology at California State University.

Roszak gained prominence with the 1968 publication of his landmark work The Making of a Counter Culture, which describes and analyzes countercultural trends in Europe and North America in the 1960s. He later created numerous works on social and related themes: feminism, emancipation, ecopsychology, the information age, globalization, and others.

The American physicist Fritjof Capra called Roszak “one of the most perceptive and lucid interpreters of the cultural, philosophical, and scientific trends of our time.”

In addition, Theodore Roszak is the author of five novels, four of which are directly associated with science fiction. In Bugs (the author’s debut in fiction), a six-year-old clairvoyant girl unleashes hidden forces that threaten not only the world’s computer infrastructure but humanity itself. To overcome them, people will have to turn to even more frightening powers... Dreamwatcher (1985) tells of people capable of entering other people’s dreams and changing them at will. The heroine discovers with horror that the talents of dreamwatchers are wanted for the basest purposes...

In Flicker (1991), Roszak turns to the history of cinema — above all the horror genre — and in the novel The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (1995), which was awarded the James Tiptree Jr. Award, he offers a skillful reimagining of the events and characters of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

In his most recent novel to date, The Devil and Daniel Silverman (2003), the author offers a satire on religious fanaticism, which he contrasts with humanist values.

In 2006–2008, Eksmo published Flicker and The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein Show full Collapse