Russell Davis (born 1970) is an American author born in
Missouri
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. His publications include more than 20 novels and 30 short stories. Davis, who writes in many
genres
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, was the president of the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, doing business as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, commonly known as SFWA ( or ) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. Whil ...
(SFWA) from 2008–2010, and a member of the
Western Writers of America
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(WWA). He has also worked as an editor and book packager.
Davis has written for publication under the names David Cian, Garrett Dylan and Dylan Garrett, D.L. Lawson, Cliff Ryder, Jenna Solitaire and Christopher Tracy as well as his real name.
[ Cliff Ryder is a house pseudonym shared by multiple writers.][
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Selected works
Novels
Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers
Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers or Net Force Explorers is a series of young adult fiction, young adult novels created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik as a spin-off of the military fiction series Tom Clancy's Net Force. The first novel was pub ...
* ''Cloak and Dagger
"Cloak and dagger" was a fighting style common in the Renaissance involving a knife hidden beneath a cloak. The term later came into use as a metaphor, referring to situations involving intrigue, secrecy, espionage, or mystery.
Overview
In " Th ...
'' (2001) with John Helfers
Transformers
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* ''Annihilation'' (2003) as David Cian
* ''Fusion'' (2004) as David Cian
The Twilight Zone
''The Twilight Zone'' is an American media franchise based on the anthology television series created by Rod Serling. The episodes are in various genres, including fantasy, science fiction, absurdism, dystopian fiction, suspense, horror, sup ...
* ''A Gathering of Shadows'' (2003)
Standalone novels
* ''Touchless'' (2002)
* ''The Adventures of the Librarian: Quest for the Spear'' (2004) – TV movie
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novelization as by Christopher Tracy
* ''Megawar'' (2005) as David Cian
* ''Jersey'' (2013)
As by Cliff Ryder
Among the Room 59 spy novels published under the name Cliff Ryder, a house pseudonym shared by multiple writers, Davis takes credit for two for which he has been acknowledged under the pseudonym Garrett Dylan.["Room 59"]
Spy Guys and Gals. Retrieved 2015-07-20.
* ''Out of Time'' (2008)
* ''The Ties that Bind'' (2008)
Collections
* ''Waltzing with the Dead'' (2004)
* ''The End of All Seasons'' (2013)
Anthologies edited
* ''Mardi Gras Madness: Tales of Terror and Mayhem in New Orleans'' (2000) with Martin H. Greenberg
Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 – June 25, 2011) was an American academic and anthologist in many genres, including mysteries and horror, but especially in speculative fiction. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned ov ...
* ''Apprentice Fantastic'' (2002) with Greenberg
* ''Transformers Legends'' (2004) as David Cian
* ''Faerie Tales'' (2004) with Greenberg
* ''Haunted Holidays'' (2004) with Greenberg
* ''Millennium 3001'' (2006) with Greenberg
* ''If I Were An Evil Overlord'' (2007) with Greenberg
* ''Courts of the Fey'' (2011) with Greenberg
Short fiction
* "Dead Tired" (1998)
* "One Tree Hill" (1998)
* "The End of Winter" (1998)
* "The Body Clock" (1999)
* "The Death of Winston Foster" (1999)
* "The End of Summer" (1999)
* "Goliath" (1999)
* "Fat Tuesday" (2000)
* "Across Hickman's Bridge to Home" (2000)
* "A Kiss at Midnight" (2001)
* "King of Thorns" (2001)
* "A Weapon of Flesh and Bone" (2001) with Tim Waggoner
Tim Waggoner is the author of numerous novels and short stories in the Fantasy, Horror, and Thriller genres.
Education
Waggoner graduated from Wright State University in 1989 with a Master of Arts in English with a Creative Writing Concentra ...
* "Omega Time" (2002)
* "Countdown" (2004)
* "The Last Day of the Rest of Her Life" (2004)
* "The Hollywood Dilemma" (2005)
* "The Things She Handed Down" (2005)
* "Midnight at the Half-Life Café" (2005)
* "The Angel Chamber" (2005)
* "The End of Spring" (2006)
* "When I Look to the Sky" (2007)
* "Engines of Desire & Despair" (2007)
* "Scars Enough" (2008)
* "Houdini's Mirror" (2008)
* "An Orchid for Valdis" (2008)
References
External links
*
*
Russell Davis
at Goodreads
*
Cliff Ryder
(shared pseudonym)
Jenna Solitaire
an
Christopher Tracy
at LC Authorities (no records as of July 2015)
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1970 births
Living people
20th-century American novelists
Novelists from Missouri
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
Date of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
American male short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
21st-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers