Allen Steele

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Allen Steele

Allen Mulherin Steele, Jr. (born January 19, 1958 in Nashville , Tennessee ) is an American journalist and science fiction author.

life and career

At meetings at the Nashville Science Fiction Club, he learned about science fiction fandom . He attended the Webb School in Bell Buckle , Tennessee. He holds a BA in Communication Studies from New England College, Hangman, New Hampshire and an MA in Journalism from the University of Missouri , Columbia, Missouri .

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Steele worked as a journalist for several years before making a name for himself as a science fiction writer. In 1988 he started publishing short stories. His first novels from Orbital Decay to Labyrinth of Night form a postulated story of the future. Some of these early novels, like Orbital Decay and Lunar Descent, deal with blue-collar workers working on future construction projects in space. Since 1992 he has concentrated more on independent projects and short stories, but he also wrote five novels about the moon Coyote .

Steele serves on both the Space Frontier Foundation's advisory boards and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's advisory boards . On the board of directors of SFWA he was chairman of the eastern region. In April 2001 he was heard by the US House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics on Space Exploration in the 21st Century.

In 2004, he contributed a chapter to the collective Trash - Fantasy -novel Atlanta Nights at.

Awards

The author has received several awards for his works:

  • 1990: Locus Award for Orbital Decay (German: Station of the Last Heroes )
  • 1996: Hugo Award for The Death of Captain Future
  • 1997: Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Award for Where Angels Fear to Tread
  • 1998: Locus Award for Where Angels Fear to Tread
  • 1998: Hugo Award for Where Angels Fear to Tread
  • 1998: Seiun Award for The Death of Captain Future
  • 1998: Asimov's Readers' Award for Where Angels Fear to Tread
  • 1998: Asimov's Readers' Award for Liberation day
  • 1999: Analog Award for Zwarte Piet's tale
  • 2002: Asimov's Readers' Award for Stealing Alabama
  • 2002: Phoenix Award for Lifetime Achievement
  • 2005: Asimov's Readers' Award for The Garcia Narrows Bridge
  • 2011: Hugo Award for The Emperor of Mars
  • 2011: Asimov's Readers' Award for The Emperor of Mars
  • 2013: Robert A. Heinlein Award (together with Yoji Kondo )
  • 2015: Asimov's Readers' Award for The Legion of Tomorrow

bibliography

fiction

Novels
  • The Jericho Iteration (1994)
  • The Tranquility Alternative (1996)
  • Oceanspace (2000)
  • Chronospace (2001)
  • Apollo's Outcasts (2012)
  • VS Day (2014)

Near-Space series

also under the name Rude Astronauts. known
  • Orbital Decay. (1989). (German: Station of the Last Heroes. Bergisch Gladbach 1997)
  • Clarke County, Space. (1990). (German: The Last Days of Clarke County. Bergisch Gladbach 1992)
  • Lunar Descent (1991). (German: Mondhunde. Bergisch Gladbach 1992, ISBN 3-404-23129-5 .)
  • Labyrinth of Night. (1992). (German: Labyrinth der Nacht. Bergisch Gladbach 1993, ISBN 978-3404231416 .)
  • A King of Infinite Space. (1997)

Coyote series

  • Coyote trilogy
    • Coyote: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration (2002)
    • Coyote Rising: A Novel of Interstellar Revolution (2004)
    • Coyote Frontier: A Novel of Interstellar Colonization (2005)
  • Coyote Chronicles
    • Coyote Horizon (2009)
    • Coyote Destiny (2010)
  • Coyote Universe
    • Spindrift (2007)
    • Galaxy Blues (2008)
    • Hex (2011)
Chapbooks
  • The Weight (1995)
  • The Days Between (2002)
  • The River Horses (2007)
  • Angel of Europe (2011)
Stories and short stories

Collections

  • Rude Astronauts (1992)
  • All-American Alien Boy (1996)
  • Sex and Violence in Zero-G: The Complete Near-Space Stories (1998)
  • American Beauty (2003)
  • The Last Science Fiction Writer (2008)

stories

  • The Death of Captain Future. 1995.
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread. 1997.
  • The Emperor of Mars. 2010.
  • Sixteen million leagues from Versailles. In: Analog 133 (10): 8-22. October 2013.
  • Martian blood. In: Gardner Dozois, George RR Martin: Old Mars. Bantam Books, 2013, ISBN 978-0-345-53727-0 .
  • Frogheads In: Gardner Dozois, George RR Martin: Old Venus. Bantam Books, 2015.
Non-fiction
  • Primary Ignition (2003) contains articles and essays from 1997 to 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lynne Thomas: LibGuides. Rare Books and Special Collections At Northern Illinois University. Previous SFWA Officers Listing. (No longer available online.) In: libguides.niu.edu. Archived from the original on October 22, 2015 ; accessed on October 19, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / libguides.niu.edu
  2. ^ United States Congress. House Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics (2001), Vision 2001: future space: hearing before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, April 3, 2001. USGPO, ISBN 978- 0-16-065955-3 .
  3. ↑ Allen Steele Biography. In: allensteele. Accessed November 21, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Steele and Kondo Win 2013 Heinlein Award. In: locusmag.com. Locus Publications, January 28, 2013, accessed November 21, 2016 .
  5. ^ Asimov's Readers' Awards. In: asimovs.com. Penny Publications, accessed November 21, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Official site: Bibliography on allensteele.com
  7. ↑ CoyoteSeries.com: Allen Steele Announces New Coyote Books ( Memento of 16 January 2010 at the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Coyote Destiny: Allen Steele's great space colonization series continues , Tor.com (author's comment in introduction to Coyote Destiny), February 26, 2010.
  9. ↑ TOC: 'Old Mars' Edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois. In: SF Signal. Retrieved October 19, 2015 (American English).
  10. ^ Mars as We Thought it Could Be: Old Mars, edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois. In: Tor.com. Retrieved October 19, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Venus In March. (No longer available online.) In: Not A Blog. Archived from the original on August 21, 2014 ; Retrieved October 19, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / grrm.livejournal.com
personal data
SURNAME Steele, Allen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steele, Allen Mulherin Jr. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Nashville (Tennessee)