Arthur Byron Cover (born January 14, 1950, in
Grundy, Virginia
Grundy is a town in Buchanan County, Virginia, Buchanan County, Virginia, United States, an area located within the Appalachian Mountains region. It is the county seat of Buchanan County. The town is home to the Appalachian School of Law. The popu ...
) is an American
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...
author.
Cover attended the
Clarion Writer's SF Workshop in
in 1971, and made his first professional short-story sale to
Harlan Ellison's ''
The Last Dangerous Visions
''The Last Dangerous Visions'' is an unpublished speculative fiction anthology intended to follow '' Dangerous Visions'' (1967) and '' Again, Dangerous Visions'' (1972). Like its predecessors, it was edited by American author Harlan Ellison, ...
''.
Cover's short stories have appeared in ''Infinity Five'', ''Alternities'', ''The Alien Condition'', ''
Weird Heroes
''Weird Heroes'', subtitled "New American Pulp", was an American series of novels and anthologies produced by Byron Preiss in the 1970s that dealt with new heroic characters inspired by pulp magazine characters.
The series was 'packaged' by ...
'' #6, ''The Year's Best Horror'' #4 and #5, ''
Wild Cards
''Wild Cards'' is a series of science fiction superhero shared universe anthologies, mosaic novels, and solo novels. They are written by a collection of more than forty authors (referred to as the "Wild Cards Trust") and are edited by George ...
#5: Down & Dirty'', and ''
Pulphouse''. He has also written several
comic book
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s, including two issues of ''
Daredevil'' (one of them with Ellison), and ''Space Clusters'', a graphic novel from
DC Comics
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DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with thei ...
illustrated by
Alex Niño — plus several animation scripts, and reviews and articles for such august publications as ''
The New York Review of Science Fiction
''The New York Review of Science Fiction'' is a monthly literary magazine of science fiction that was established in 1988. It includes works of science fiction criticism, essays, and in-depth critical reviews of new works of fiction and scholarsh ...
''.
Cover's first novel, ''Autumn Angels'', was the second of
Harlan Ellison's Discovery Series of new authors for Pyramid Books, and was nominated for a
Nebula Award. The novel has been described as "a stylistic cross-breed of Ellison and
Vonnegut, and as such both predates and bests
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author and screenwriter, best known for ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. Originally a 1978 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series), BBC radio comedy, ''The H ...
in creating a comic, literary fantasy."
Harlan Ellison: Islet of Langerhands: A Literary Topography.
Cover currently manages the "Dangerous Visions" science fiction book sales website. The website takes its name from the '' Dangerous Visions'' anthology edited in 1967 by Harlan Ellison. Cover was also a judge for the 2005 Philip K. Dick Award
The Philip K. Dick Award is an American science fiction award given annually at Norwescon and sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and (since 2005) the Philip K. Dick Trust. Named after science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, ...
.
Bibliography
Buffyverse
* '' Night of the Living Rerun'' (1998)
Other works
* '' Autumn Angels'' (1975)
* '' The Platypus of Doom and Other Nihilists'' (1976) — a collection of 4 novelettes:
**"The Platypus of Doom"
**"The Armadillo of Destruction"
**"The Aardvark of Despair"
**"The Clam of Catastrophe"
* '' The Sound of Winter'' (Pyramid Books, 1976)
* '' An East Wind Coming'' (1979) — from the cover: ""An immortal Sherlock Holmes: a deathless Jack the Ripper! in a fantasty duel through the corridors of time."
* '' Flash Gordon'' (1980) — novelization of the movie script by Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Lorenzo Elliott Semple III (March 27, 1923March 28, 2014) was an American screenwriter and sometime playwright, best known for his work on the campy television series '' Batman'', who also received writing credit on the political/espionage fil ...
* ''Time Machine
Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically with the use of a hypothetical device known as a time machine. Time travel is a w ...
''
** ''The Rings of Saturn'' (No. 6)
** ''American Revolutionary'' (No. 10)
** ''Blade of the Guillotine'' (No. 14, 1986)
* '' Space Clusters'' (1986)
* ''Planetfall
''Planetfall'' is a science fiction themed interactive fiction video game written by Steve Meretzky, and the eighth title published by Infocom in 1983. The original release included versions for Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, TRS-80, and IBM PC ...
'' (1988)
* '' Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Prodigy'' (#4, 1988)
* '' Stationfall'' (1989)
*'' The Rising Stars Trilogy (2002-2005) - Based on the comic book series by J. Michael Straczynski
Joseph Michael Straczynski (; born July 17, 1954) is an American filmmaker and comic book writer. He is the founder of Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Studio JMS and is best known as the creator of the science fiction television series ''Babylon 5'' ( ...
**"Rising Stars Book 1: Born In Fire" (2002)
**"Rising Stars Book 2: Ten Years After" (2002)
**"Rising Stars Book 3: Change the World" (2005)
* ''The Red Star
''The Red Star'' is a comic book series created by American artist Christian Gossett and a large team, and first published by Image Comics in 2001. It was one of the first computer-generated comics, making heavy use of line-art from 3D models to p ...
'' (2003)
Television credits
* '' The Transformers'' (1986)
* ''Defenders of the Earth
''Defenders of the Earth'' is an American animated television series produced in 1986, featuring characters from three comic strips distributed by King Features Syndicate—Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, and Mandrake's assistan ...
'' (1986)
* ''Bionic Six
is a 1987 animated television series. It was produced by Universal Television and animated by TMS Entertainment, Tokyo Movie Shinsha (now TMS Entertainment) and distributed, through first-run syndication, by MCA Inc., MCA TV, years before the la ...
'' (1987)
* ''Spiral Zone
''Spiral Zone'' is a 1987 American science-fiction animated series produced by Atlantic/ Kushner-Locke. Spiral Zone was animated by Japanese studio Visual 80 as well as South Korean studio AKOM. Based in part from a toy line made by Japanese compa ...
'' (1987)
* ''Dinosaucers
''Dinosaucers'' is a 1987 animated television series co-produced in the United States and Canada, produced by DIC Animation City and distributed in syndication in the US by Coca-Cola Telecommunications. The show was created by producer Michael ...
'' (1987)
* '' Starcom: The U.S. Space Force'' (1987)
* ''The Real Ghostbusters
''The Real Ghostbusters'' is an American animated television series, a spin-off/sequel of the 1984 comedy film ''Ghostbusters''. The series ran from September 13, 1986, to October 5, 1991, and was produced by Columbia Pictures Television and DI ...
'' (1987)
* '' Transformers: Generation 2'' (1993)
* ''Phantom 2040
''Phantom 2040'' is an animated series that is loosely based on the comic strip superhero ''The Phantom'', created by Lee Falk. The central character of the series is said to be the 24th Phantom. It was aired from September 18, 1994 to March 3, ...
'' (1995)
References
External links
*
Dangerous Visions site
Review of ''Autumn Angels''
*
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1950 births
Living people
American science fiction writers
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
Novelists from Virginia
People from Grundy, Virginia