Rory Harper (born 1950) is an American science fiction writer and community activist living in College Station, Texas.

Life and career

He was born in Beaumont, Texas, and attended the University of Houston but did not graduate. He was one of the founders of Houston's Inlet Drug Crisis Center, where he worked with harm reduction pioneer

David F. Duncan David F. Duncan (born in Kansas City, Missouri on June 26, 1947) is president of Duncan & Associates, a firm providing consultation on research design and data collection for behavioral and policy studies. He is also Clinical Associate Professor ...

. He has published science fiction and horror short stories in many science fiction magazines, some of which have been anthologized. His one novel, ''

Petrogypsies ''Petrogypsies'' is a science fiction novel by Rory Harper. It incorporates a short story that was published in 1985 in ''Far Frontiers, vol 2''. The novel's plot focuses on a group of oil field workers in an alternate Texas who use giant, semi- ...

'' was published by Baen Books in 1989 and has since become a cult novel in and around the Texas oilfields. DarkStar Books released a new, partially illustrated trade paperback edition of ''Petrogypsies'' in December 2009, and plans to continue the series with two more volumes (''Sprocket Goes International'', ''Sprocket Goes Interstellar'') in 2010 and 2011. Harper is one of a group of regular contributors to the ''Eat Our Brains'' blog.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Petrogypsies]'' (Baen Books in 1989; DarkStar Books 2009) ()

Short fiction

* ''Psycho-Stars'' (''Asimov's'', Mar 1980) * ''M-M-Magic'' (''Fantasy Book'', Dec 1981) * ''Duty to the Empire'' (''Amazing Stories'', Sep 1983) * ''Petrogypsies'' (''Far Frontiers, Volume II'', Apr 1985) * ''Regeneration'' (''Aboriginal SF'', Dec 1986) * ''Snorkeling in The River Lethe'' (''Amazing Stories'', Jan 1987) * ''Triage'' (''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', Feb 1988) * ''Monsters, Tearing off My Face'' (''Asimov's'', May 1989; ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection'', 1990) * ''God's Bullets'' (''Aboriginal SF'', Nov 1990) * ''Do Me Good'' (''Pulphouse'', Sep 1993) * ''Leonardo's Hands'', with

Steven Gould Steven Charles Gould (born February 7, 1955) is an American science fiction writer and teacher. He has written ten novels. He is best known for his 1992 novel ''Jumper'', which was adapted into a film released in 2008. Biography Steven Charles ...

(''RevolutionSF'', Aug 2005)
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* ''Therapeutic Intervention'' (''The Living Dead 2'', ed. John Joseph Adams, 2010)

References

External links

Eat Our Brains
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