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Arthur Byron Cover (born January 14, 1950 in Grundy , Virginia ) is an American science fiction writer.

Life

Arthur Byron Cover is the son of the doctor William A. Cover and the politician Margaret Cover, nee Peery. He studied at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute , where he graduated with a BA in 1971. In 1971 he took part in one of the first Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshops . A first SF story appeared in 1973, Gee, Isn't He the Cutest Little Thing? , in the anthology The Alien Condition, edited by Stephen Goldin . The debut novel Autumn Angels , published in 1975, was the first of a loosely connected group of works, which also included the third novel An East Wind Coming (1979) and the four short stories from The Platypus of Doom and Other Nihilists (1976), set in one distant future, when technology is so advanced that it can no longer be distinguished from magic. Innovative and experimental in language and form, also satirical and containing numerous allusions, the Autumn Angels were a certain challenge for the SF readers.

As a result, Cover turned away from such ambitious forms and turned to the field of novel versions and tie-ins . He wrote the book for the film for Flash Gordon , several volumes for Ballantine's Time Machine series, and a volume for a series from Isaac Asimov's Foundation world, as well as two tie-ins for the computer game Planetfall and two novels for J. Michael Straczynskis Rising Stars comic series . He also wrote nearly a dozen screenplays for cartoon series and scenarios for several comics, including a comic adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth .

bibliography

The Universe of God-Like Men
  • 1 Autumn Angels (1975)
  • 2 The Platypus of Doom and Other Nihilists (1976)
  • 3 An East Wind Coming (1979)

Stories:

  • The Aardvark of Despair (1976, in: Arthur Byron Cover: The Platypus of Doom and Other Nihilists )
  • The Armadillo of Destruction (1976, in: Arthur Byron Cover: The Platypus of Doom and Other Nihilists )
  • The Clam of Catastrophe (1976, in: Arthur Byron Cover: The Platypus of Doom and Other Nihilists )
  • The Platypus of Doom (1976, in: Arthur Byron Cover: The Platypus of Doom and Other Nihilists )
Time Machine
  • 6 The Rings of Saturn (1985)
  • 10 American Revolutionary (1985)
  • 14 Blade of the Guillotine (1986)
Planetfall
  • 1 Planetfall (1988)
  • 2 Ward Case (1989)
J. Michael Straczynski's Rising Stars
  • 1 Born in Fire (2000)
  • 2 Ten Years After (2002)
  • 3 Change the World (2005)
Novels
  • The Sound of Winter (1976)
  • Flash Gordon ( tie-in to Flash Gordon , 1980)
    • German: Flash Gordon. Translated by Inge Pesch. Bastei-Lübbe SF Filmband # 28002, 1981, ISBN 3-404-28002-4 .
  • Prodigy ( Isaac Asimov's Robot City # 4, 1988)
    • German: The riot. Translated by Bernd Müller. Bastei-Lübbe SF Adventure # 23091, 1989, ISBN 3-404-23091-4 .
  • The Dinosaur Trackers ( Robert Silverberg's Time Tours # 4, 1991; with John Gregory Betancourt and Tim Sullivan as Thomas Shadwell)
  • The Red Star (2003)
  • Night of the Living Rerun (in: Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1 , 2010)
  • Looking Sharp (2020)
Collections
  • Brainticket (2020, collective issue)
Short stories

1973:

  • Gee, Isn't He the Cutest Little Thing? (1973, in: Stephen Goldin (Ed.): The Alien Condition )
  • In Between Then and Now (1973, in: Robert Hoskins (Ed.): Infinity Five )
  • Pelican's Claws (in: The Haunt of Horror, August 1973 )
  • Islands and Gold (in: Eternity SF, # 2 1973 )

1974:

  • A Gross Love Story (1974, in: David Gerrold and Stephen Goldin (Eds.): Alternities )
  • Message of Joy (1974, in: David Gerrold and Stephen Goldin (Eds.): Alternities )
  • My World; Things Past (in: Eternity SF, # 3 1974 )

1975:

  • Lifeguard (1975, in: Gerald W. Page (Ed.): Nameless Places )

1977:

  • Galactic Gumshoe (1977, in: Byron Preiss (Ed.): Weird Heroes, Volume 6 )
  • The Day It Rained Lizards (1977, in: Gerald W. Page (Ed.): The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V )

1984:

  • Mamma's Boy (in: Weird Tales, Fall 1984 )

1988:

  • Jesus Was An Ace ( Wild Cards - Story, 1988, in: George RR Martin (Ed.): Down & Dirty )
    • German: Jesus was an ace. Translated by Christian Jentzsch. In: George RR Martin (Ed.): Only the dead know Jokertown. Heyne SF&F # 5607, 1998, ISBN 3-453-13321-8 .

1991:

  • A Murder (in: Pulphouse: A Weekly Fiction Magazine, August 17, 1991 )

1997:

  • The Performance of a Lifetime (1997, in: Brad Linaweaver and Edward E. Kramer (Eds.): Free Space )

2017:

  • Dreamweaver (2017, in: M. Christian (Ed.): Five to the Future: All New Novelettes of Tomorrow and Beyond )

did not show up:

  • Various Kinds of Conceits (in: Harlan Ellison (Ed.): The Last Dangerous Visions )
Anthologies
Scripts
  • The Transformers (animated series)
    • The Ultimate Weapon (1986)
  • Defenders of the Earth (animated series)
    • The Lost Jewels of Tibet (1986)
    • The Sleeper Awakes (1986)
  • Bionic Six (cartoon series)
    • Up and Atom (1987)
    • 1001 Bionic Nights (1987)
  • Spiral Zone (cartoon series)
    • Ride the Whirlwind (1987)
  • Starcom : The US Space Force (animated series)
    • Dark Harvest (1987)
  • The Real Ghostbusters (animated series)
    • Sea Fright (1987)
    • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost? (1987)
  • Phantom 2040 (animated series)
    • A Boy and His Cat (1995)
comics
  • Pelican's Claws (The Haunt of Horror # 2, 1973) # 2
  • The Fury of Firestorm (1982; with Gerry Conway )
  • The Deadliest Night of My Life! ( Daredevil # 208, 1984)
  • Blast From the Past (Daredevil # 209, 1984)
  • Space Clusters (DC Graphic Novel # 7, 1983)
  • Three Trapped Tigers ( Jonny Quest Special # 1, 1988)
  • The Luck of Lenin's Tomb (Jonny Quest Special # 2, 1988)
  • William Shakespeare's Macbeth: The Graphic Novel (2005)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Cover, Arthur Byron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cover, Arthur (alternative spelling); Shadwell, Thomas (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Grundy , Virginia