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Curt Siodmak

Born

Dresden, Germany

Genre

Film, Fantasy, Horror

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Curt Siodmak (August 10 1902–September 2 2000) was a novelist and screenwriter, author of the novel Donovan's Brain, which was made into a number of films. He also wrote the novels Hauser's Memory and Gabriel's Body.

Born Kurt Siodmak in Dresden, Germany, Curt Siodmak acquired a degree in mathematics before beginning to write novels. He invested early royalties earned by his first books in the movie Menschen am Sonntag (1929), a documentary-style chronicle of the lives of four Berliners on a Sunday based on their own lives. The movie was co-directed by Curt Siodmak's older brother Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, with a script by Billy Wilder.

In the following years Curt Siodmak wrote many novels, screenplays and short stories including the ...more

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Average rating: 3.7 · 778 ratings · 130 reviews · 63 distinct works • Similar authors

	Donovan's Brain 3.77 avg rating — 544 ratings — published 1942 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hauser's Memory 3.45 avg rating — 53 ratings — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City in the Sky 3.24 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1974 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Third Ear 3.34 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1971 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Donovan's Brain/Hauser's Memory (2 Complete Novels in 1) 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skyport 3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1959 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Riders to the Stars 3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1953 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wolf Man's Maker: Memoir of a Hollywood Writer 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1941 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gabriel's Body 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Warmest Memory by Curt Siodmak, Ray Bradbury, Lloyd Biggle Jr. 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Curt Siodmak (?)

“Even a man who is pure in heart,
And says his prayers by night,
May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms,
And the moon is full and bright.”
― Curt Siodmak

tags: darkness, moon, night, wolf

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“I've given up listening to people. What can they tell me that is so much more to the point than what I've always known? All the mistakes in my life came from accepting advice.”
― Curt Siodmak, Gabriel's Body

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Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon

14 votes, 23.0%

Hild by Nicola Griffith

13 votes, 21.3%

Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein

10 votes, 16.4%

Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement

7 votes, 11.5%

The High Crusade by Poul Anderson

7 votes, 11.5%

Donovan's Brain by Curt Siodmak

4 votes, 6.6%

Past Master by R.A. Lafferty

3 votes, 4.9%

Halting State by Charles Stross

3 votes, 4.9%

61 total votes

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