Tais Teng has written more than a hundred novels both for adults and children in the Dutch language.
18 Facts About Tais Teng
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Tais Teng has won the Paul Harland Prize four times.
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Tais Teng's books have been translated into German, Finnish, French, and English, with Teng himself being a Dutch and English bilingual writer.
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Tais Teng has co-authored short stories and novels with Paul Harland, Eddy C Bertin, Bies van Ede, Roderick Leeuwenhart, Roelof Goudriaan, and Jaap Boekestein.
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Tais Teng wrote the three-novel series Duisterlingen with Eddy C Bertin and Bies van Ede about three children with special powers who can travel into the nightmarish dreamland Yldorgei.
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When Tais Teng started reading in earnest, fantasy was almost nonexistent in the Netherlands.
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Tais Teng grew up with the idea that the Dutch engineering know-how would put them on the Moon and Mars first.
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The tale about a war between an earthly computer system and a vegetative brain of Mars made Tais Teng decide that he wanted to be a writer.
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When Tais Teng started writing, Jack Vance was the most influential writer for fledgling Dutch sci-fi writers at the time, more so than Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.
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Tais Teng wanted to write like him, but it soon became apparent that imitating his style wasn't enough: he still had to have a good tale.
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Lovecraft remains a strong influence in his horror stories with Tais Teng naming his first English collection Lovecraft, My Love.
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Part of the ziltpunk future described in Tais Teng's works is already here.
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Tais Teng began selling his artwork in 1981, the same year he wrote his first children's book and published an SF collection for adults.
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Tais Teng used oils and acrylic paint, and while oil paint looked better, it took a fortnight to dry, which proved to be a problem when working for demanding publishers.
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For each part of the picture, Tais Teng had to cut out plastic stencils to preserve earlier parts.
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Nowadays, Tais Teng makes use of computer-generated Fractals and kaleidoscopic mandalas to construct his landscapes.
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Tais Teng often uses these statues as part of a cover image, integrating them with the rest of the picture.
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Tais Teng often uses lengthy titles to tell their own mini-tales for his short stories.