Allen Steele

This article is about the writer. For the actor, see Allan Steele.
Allen M. Steele

Allen Steele (2006)
Born Allen Mulherin Steele, Jr.
(1958-01-19) January 19, 1958
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Occupation Novelist, short story author, essayist, journalist
Genre Science fiction
Notable works Coyote

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

Background

Steele was born in Nashville, Tennessee on January 19, 1958. Steele was introduced to science fiction fandom attending meetings of Nashville's science fiction club. He graduated high school from the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, received a bachelor's degree from New England College and a Master's from the University of Missouri.[1]

Writing

Before he established himself as a science fiction author, he spent several years working as a journalist. Steele began publishing short stories in 1988. His early novels formed a future history beginning with Orbital Decay and continuing through Labyrinth of Night. Some of his early novels such as Orbital Decay and Lunar Descent were about blue-collar workers working on future construction projects in space. Since 1992, he has tended to focus on stand-alone projects and short stories, although he has written five novels about the moon Coyote.

In 1996, his story "The Death of Captain Future" received the Hugo Award for Best Novella.[2] He won the award again in 1998 for the story "...Where Angels Fear to Tread,"[3] and won the Hugo for best novelette in 2011 for "The Emperor of Mars."[4]

Steele serves on the Board of Advisors for both the Space Frontier Foundation and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and he is a former member (Eastern Regional Director) of the SFWA Board of Directors.[5] In April 2001, he testified before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the U.S. House of Representatives, in hearings regarding space exploration in the 21st century.[6]

In 2004, he contributed a chapter to the collaborative hoax novel, Atlanta Nights.

Bibliography

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Fiction

Novels

Near-Space series
also called Rude Astronauts series
Coyote series[7]

Chapbooks

Short fiction

Collections
Stories
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
The Death of Captain Future 1995
Where Angels Fear to Tread 1997
The Emperor of Mars 2010
Sixteen million leagues from Versailles 2013 "Sixteen million leagues from Versailles". Analog 133 (10): 8–22. October 2013. 
Martian blood 2013 Dozois, Gardner; Martin, George R R, eds. (2013). Old Mars. Bantam Books. [10][11]
  • Dozois, Gardner, ed. (2014). The year's best science fiction : thirty-first annual collection. St Martin's Griffin. 
  • Dozois, Gardner, ed. (2014). The mammoth book of best new SF 27. Robinson. 
Frogheads 2015 Dozois, Gardner; Martin, George R R, eds. (2015). Old Venus. Bantam Books. [12]

Non-fiction

References

  1. ↑ "Allen Steele Bio" Retrieved 22 July 2015
  2. ↑ Hugo Awards 1996
  3. ↑ Hugo Awards 1998
  4. ↑ Locus, 2011 Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners (access date August 21, 2011)
  5. ↑ Thomas, Lynne. "LibGuides. Rare Books and Special Collections At Northern Illinois University. Previous SFWA Officers Listing.". libguides.niu.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-19.
  6. ↑ 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, U.S. G.P.O, ISBN 978-0-16-065955-3
  7. ↑ "Official site: Bibliography". Retrieved September 27, 2014.
  8. ↑ Allen Steele Announces New Coyote Books, CoyoteSeries.com, 2008-05-16
  9. ↑ Coyote Destiny: Allen Steele’s great space colonization series continues, Tor.com (and comments by author in Coyote Destiny introduction), 2010-02-26
  10. ↑ DeNardo, John (February 14, 2013). George R.R. Martin; Gardner Dozois, eds. "TOC: Old Mars". SF Signal. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  11. ↑ Bedford, Robert H. (October 8, 2013). George R.R. Martin; Gardner Dozois, eds. "Mars as We Thought it Could Be: Old Mars". Tor.com. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  12. ↑ "Not A Blog: Venus In March". GRRM.livejournal.com. June 19, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2014.

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