Allan Cole

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Allan George Cole (born 1943 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † March 29, 2019 in Boca Raton , Florida ) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He also worked as a screenwriter and journalist.

Life

The son of a former submarine officer and later CIA employee was born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania in 1943 . In the following years he grew up in Europe , the Middle East and the Far East and attended 32 different schools. According to his own words, he turned down a training offer from the CIA. He himself describes the impression his father made on him when he read Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven to him, as one of the decisive factors that he wanted to become a writer one day. The years in Cyprus , however, would have had the greatest influence , when an old teacher introduced him to William Shakespeare's The Tempest in Nicosia . When he reached college, his father's service with the CIA ended and the family moved to California , where he graduated from high school. After that, worked for a while as a chef in several restaurants in Los Angeles.

Since the summer of 1964, Cole made his living writing, initially as a journalist . In Los Angeles he worked for 14 years as a newspaper editor and in the field of investigative journalism . Since the summer of 1979 he wrote as a screenwriter for North American television. In German-speaking countries he is best known as a book author.

Allan Cole worked with Chris Bunch , whom he had known since his senior year in college, on the science fiction series The Sten Chronicles as a writing duo. Likewise, she worked on the Far Kingdoms Series, and the Vietnam novel A Reckoning For Kings, and the historical novel Daughter Of Liberty . With his uncle, Thomas Grubb, he wrote a non-fictional documentary book called A Cop's Life based on his experience as a police officer and together with the Russian author Nik Perumow Lords of Terror .

Alone he wrote the novels belonging to the Timura saga and the cycle The Journey to the Faraway Kingdoms as well as the two thrillers Dying Good and Drowned Hopes . As Allan Lucky Cole , in 2009 after three years of writing he published an autobiographically colored coming out of age youth novel entitled Lucky In Cyprus: A True Story About A Teacher, A Boy, An Earthquake, Some Terrorists, And The CIA , which processed his own experiences in Cyprus and carried the material around with him for 50 years.

Over the decades, moreover, he wrote to 1998 24 screenplays for US TV shows like Quincy , Rockford - just call , The Incredible Hulk , Dinosaucers , Buck Rogers , Magnum , The A-Team , The werewolf returns , Greetings from Beyond , and Walker, Texas Ranger .

For the television series Kampfstern Galactica he edited some screenplays under pressure from Universal Studios in 1980, without being able to save the series, as directors like Vince Edwards, to the horror of Glen A. Larson, wasted the production money on unsuccessful effects. Cole and Chris Bunch, who also worked with him here, had demonstratively stuck a 13 on the door of their office to illustrate the hopelessness of the project, which had suffered from too many producers and Larson's weak scripts. If you had taken the time to develop the characters, Coles and Bunch believed that the series would have had a similar long-term potential as Starship Enterprise .

He came to film through Jack Klugman , the leading actor in Dr. Quincy, for whom he wrote a script specially tailored to his previous performance as an amateur boxer . In his youth, Klugmann boxed for the Philadelphia Boxing Association , whose founders were among others the grandfather and great-uncle Coles, which created the starting point for this relationship.

Cole described the collaboration with his long-time co-author Chris Bunch as follows: first both would have outlined the story outline of a book in the discussion and then divided the chapters according to their respective abilities in order to then reread and correct them. After this rough cut, they would have repeated this work process several times in order to then send the manuscript to their publisher .

His books have been translated into German , Hebrew , Dutch , Polish , Romanian , Russian , Czech and Hungarian . This is also expressed in his very active book-lecture tours across Europe, which he calls "whirlwind book tour" , as he travels to seven countries within one month.

Most recently he lived with his wife Kathryn, the sister of his friend and colleague Chris Bunch, in Boca Raton , Florida .

bibliography

Series and cycles

The Sten Chronicles (with Chris Bunch )
  • 1 sten (1982)
  • 2 The Wolf Worlds (1984)
    • German: Kreuzfeuer. Translated by Gerald Jung. Goldmann-Taschenbuch # 25001, 1996, ISBN 3-442-25001-3 .
  • 3 The Court of a Thousand Suns (1985)
    • German: The Tahn Command. Translated by Gerald Jung. Goldmann-Taschenbuch # 25002, 1996, ISBN 3-442-25002-1 .
  • 4 Fleet of the Damned (1988)
    • German: Division of the Lost. Translated by Gerald Jung. Goldmann-Taschenbuch # 25003, 1996, ISBN 3-442-25003-X .
  • 5 Revenge of the Damned (1989)
    • German: Feindgebiet. Translated by Gerald Jung. Goldmann-Taschenbuch # 25004, 1996, ISBN 3-442-25004-8 .
  • 6 The Return of the Emperor (1990)
    • English: Morituri - the doomed. Translated by Gerald Jung. Goldmann-Taschenbuch # 25005, 1997, ISBN 3-442-25005-6 .
  • 7 Vortex (1992)
    • German: Vortex - Zone of the Traitors. Translated by Gerald Jung. Goldmann-Taschenbuch # 25006, 1997, ISBN 3-442-25006-4 .
  • 8 Empire's End (1993)
    • German: Death of an Immortal. Translated by Gerald Jung. Goldmann-Taschenbuch # 25007, 1997, ISBN 3-442-25007-2 .
  • 9 Sten and the Mutineers (2016)
  • 10 Sten and the Pirate Queen (2018)
  • Sten And The Star Wanderers (2013)

Collective issues:

  • Battlecry (collective edition from 1–3; 2010; also: The Sten Omnibus # 1 , 2016)
  • The Alex Kilgour Joke Book (2011)
  • The Sten Cookbook (2011)
  • Death Match: Sten Omnibus 3 (collective edition of 7 and 8; 2012; also: The Sten Omnibus # 3: Vortex / Empire's End , 2017)
  • Empire Day: 2013: A Sten Celebration (2012)
  • Juggernaut: Sten Omnibus 2 (collective edition from 4–6; 2012; also: The Sten Omnibus # 2 , 2016)
Anteros - Far Kingdoms / Journey to the Far Kingdoms (with Chris Bunch)
  • 1 The Far Kingdoms (1985)
    • English: The Distant Kingdoms. Translated by Jörn Ingwersen. Goldmann-Taschenbuch # 24608, 1994, ISBN 3-442-24608-3 .
  • 2 The Warrior's Tale (1993)
    • German: The realm of women warriors. Translated by Jörn Ingwersen. Goldmann-Taschenbuch # 24609, 1995, ISBN 3-442-24609-1 .
  • 3 Kingdoms of the Night (1995)
    • German: The realm of darkness. Translated by Jörn Ingwersen. Goldmann-Taschenbuch # 24610, 1996, ISBN 3-442-24610-5 .
  • 4 The Warrior Returns (1996)
    • English: The return of the warrior. Translated by Jörn Ingwersen. Goldmann Fantasy # 24686, 1996, ISBN 3-442-24686-5 .
Shannon Trilogy (with Chris Bunch)
  • 1 A Daughter of Liberty (1993)
  • 2 A Reckoning for Kings: A Novel of the Tet Offensive (1987)
  • 3 The Wars of the Shannons (2009)
Timura trilogy
  • 1 When the Gods Slept (1997; also: Wizard of the Winds )
    • German: Magician of the Skies. Translated by Andreas Helweg. Goldmann Fantasy # 24720, 1998, ISBN 3-442-24720-9 .
  • 2 Wolves of the Gods (1998)
    • English: The wolves of the gods. Translated by Andreas Helweg. Goldmann Fantasy # 24721, 1998, ISBN 3-442-24721-7 .
  • 3 The Gods Awaken (1999)
    • German: The gods awaken. Translated by Andreas Helweg. Goldmann Fantasy # 24722, 2000, ISBN 3-442-24722-5 .
  • The Complete Timuras (collective edition from 1–3; 2005, collective edition)
Werewolf (with Chris Bunch)
  • 1 The Wolf Who Thought He Was A Man (2011)
  • 2 The Black Ship (2011)
  • 3 Let Us Prey (2011)
  • 4 Nightmare In Blue (2011)
  • 5 Wolfhunt (2011)
  • 6 Big Daddy (2011)
  • 7 King Of The Road (2011)
  • 8 A Material Girl (2011)
  • 9 Amazing Grace (2011)
  • To Dream Of Wolves - Part 1 (2011)
  • To Dream Of Wolves - Part 2 (2011)

Novels

  • Dying Good (2004; as Allan George Cole)
  • Drowned Hopes (2005; as Allan George Cole)
  • Lords of Terror (2006; also: The Hate Parallax , 2011; with Nick Perumov)
  • A Cop's Life (2009)
  • Freedom Bird (2009; with Chris Bunch)
  • MacGregor (2009)
  • The Hate Parallax (2011; with Nick Perumov)
  • MacGregor In: Dying Good (novel and screenplay, 2011)
  • The Spymaster's Daughter (2013; with Susan Cole Beck)
  • SOS (2018)

Short stories

1998:

  • The Blacksmith's Daughter (1998)
    • German: The blacksmith's daughter. Translated by Andreas Helweg. In: Melissa Andersson and Jennifer Roberson (Eds.): Beyond Avalon. Knaur Excalibur # 70163, 1999, ISBN 3-426-70163-4 .

2019:

  • The Monster at World's End (2019, in: John Gregory Betancourt (Ed.): Short Things: Tales Inspired by "Who Goes There?" By John W. Campbell, Jr. )
  • Shadow Boxing with the Devil (2019, in: Barry Hoffman and Richard Christian Matheson (Eds.): Brothers in Arms: Stories in Tribute to Richard Matheson's Beardless Warriors )

Autobiography

  • Lucky In Cyprus: A True Story About A Teacher, A Boy, An Earthquake, Some Terrorists, And The CIA (2009, as Allan Lucky Cole)
  • My Hollywood MisAdventures (2011)

Scripts and plays

  • Crosses (2012; with Chris Bunch)
  • The Further Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (2012; with Chris Bunch)
  • The Last Green River (2012; with Chris Bunch)
  • Arochuku (2013; with Chris Bunch)
  • MacGregor: The Screenplay (2013)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allan Cole, Television Writer and Best-Selling Author, Dies at 75, accessed April 4, 2019
  2. ↑ http://www.acole.com/bio.html
  3. ↑ www.paperbackswap.com
  4. ↑ Interview with Galactica 1980 Story Editor Allan Cole, 1997/2005 (Engl.)
  5. ↑ Epi-Log Journal Magazine
  6. ↑ http://www.acole.com/europe_tour/tour.html
personal data
SURNAME Cole, Allan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cole, Allan George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH 29th March 2019
Place of death Boca Raton , Florida