David M. Alexander

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Dave Alexander
Photo of Jack Vance by David Alexander, early 1980s

David Michael Alexander (born August 21, 1945 in Rochester , New York ) is an American writer of science fiction and crime novels .

biography

Alexander graduated from Stanford University in 1967 with a major in history and a minor in economics. He then received his doctorate in law from the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1970 as one of the best in his class. In 1971 he was in California as a lawyer admitted. In 1977, he was sworn in by the Chief Justice of the United States, Warren E. Burger, and thus received approval to represent cases before the Supreme Court .

He is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America . As a long-time friend of the well-known science fiction and fantasy writer Jack Vance , he got a planet named after him in Vance The Face and a famous legislature named after him in Night Lamp . He lives in Palo Alto , California

Novels published under his own name include The Chocolate Spy , Fane, and My Real Name Is Lisa . From 2003 he published under the pseudonym David Grace to avoid confusion with other authors of the same name. That year Wildside Press published The Eyes Of The Blind under the name David Grace. All subsequent works, both novels and stories in magazines, were published as David Grace. He has written stories for leading magazines. Science fiction for astounding both alone and in collaboration with Hayford Peirce . With Dan Wright and Sam Egan he wrote the episode Flight into the Past of the television series Outer Limits, starring Cliff Robertson , which first aired in 2000.

The film rights to a two-hour television film based on My Real Name Is Lisa were reportedly bought for a substantial sum of money. However, this has never been proven and the project was discontinued due to casting problems. It was never made into a film later.

bibliography

Harry Dondero (short stories)
  • 1 Tramp (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 1998 )
  • 2 Emerald Eyes (2016, in: Twenty Sci Fi Stories ; with Hayford Peirce as David Grace)
  • 3 The Human Dress (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2003 )
Isaiah Howe (short stories, with Hayford Peirce)
  • Finder's Fee (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 1997 )
  • Elephants' Graveyard (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 1999 ; also: Elephant's Graveyard , 2016)
Novels

as David Alexander:

  • The Chocolate Spy (1978)
  • Fane (1981; also as David Grace: The Accidental Magician , 2010)
    • German: Fane. German first edition. Droemer Knaur (Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5774), 1984, ISBN 978-3-426-05774-2 .
  • Fever Dreams (2011; as David Grace)
  • My Real Name Is Lisa (1996; also as: Stolen Angel , 2009)

as David Grace:

  • The Eyes Of The Blind (2003; also as True Faith , 2009)
  • Etched In Bone (2009)
  • Wildside Press (2011)
  • Doll's Eyes (2009)
  • Wildside Press (2011)
  • The Forbidden List (2009)
  • Wildside Press (2011)
  • A Death In Beverly Hills (2009)
  • Wildside Press (2010)
  • Easy Target (2009)
  • Wildside Press (2011)
  • Fever Dreams (2009)
  • Wildside Press (2011)
  • The Traitor's Mistress (2009)
  • Wildside Press (2011)
  • Daniel (2011)
  • Shooting Crows At Dawn (2011)
Collections
  • Elephant's Graveyard and Other Science Fiction Stories (2009, with Hayford Peirce)
  • Twenty Sci Fi Stories (2016, with Hayford Peirce as David Grace); first published therein:
    • At the sound of the beep
    • Bug Rules
    • Chain gear
    • Chronotron
    • Dream War
    • Enough Is Too Much
    • Exile
    • Let the Robot Do It
    • Shirastra
    • Spotter
    • Piece
    • The Burglary in the Basement of God
    • The Heart Is the Hunter
Short stories
  • Best of Breed (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Mid-December 1994 , with Hayford Peirce)
  • Felony Stupid (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1997 )
  • Uneasy Glistening (1997, in: The Edge, Vol. 2, # 6, December 1997-January 1998 )
  • Shrink Wrapped (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 1998 )
  • Larval Tuesday (in: Redsine, July 2002 )
  • The Thirteenth Floor (in: Thirteen Stories # 2, October 2002 )
  • Forever Mommy (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2008 ; as David Grace)
  • In the Cracks of Time (2013, as David Grace in: John Gregory Betancourt (Ed.): The Time Travel Megapack: 26 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories )
Non-fiction
  • The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry (1994; with David M. Alexander)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Alexander, David M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alexander, David Michael (full name); Grace, David (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction and crime writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester , New York