caption movement birth_place subject influences name birth_date period genre image article_title birth_name occupation
tim his house in south miami , florida in 2010 sullivan with his kitten , boris , at savage humanism bangor , maine extraterrestrial life ; astrophysics ; the future ; dinosaurs philip simak , f. l. wallace , fritz leiber k. dick , jack vance , clifford d. tim sullivan 9 june 1948 1977 -- present science satire fiction , horror fiction , fantasy fiction , tim sullivan and boris.jpg tim sullivan -lrb- writer -rrb-
 timothy robert sullivan novelist , film director , short story writer , screenwriter , actor
tim sullivan -lrb- writer -rrb-

timothy robert sullivan , who more commonly uses the name tim sullivan , is an american science fiction novelist , screenwriter , actor , film director and short story writer .
many of his stories have been critically acknowledged and reprinted .
his short story `` zeke , '' a tragedy about an extraterrestrial stranded on earth , has been translated into german and was a finalist for the 1982 nebula award for best short story .
`` under glass '' -lrb- 2011 -rrb- , a well-reviewed semi-autobiographical short story with occult hints , has been translated into chinese and is the basis for a screenplay by director/actor ron ford .
`` yeshua 's dog '' -lrb- 2013 -rrb- , similarly has been optioned for translation into chinese .
