Adam-Troy Castro

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Adam-Troy Castro
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Genres
Notable awards Seiun Award (2007)
Philip K. Dick Award (2009)
Website
www.adamtroycastro.com

Adam-Troy Castro is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer [1] living in Wildwood, Florida.

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He has almost two hundred stories to his credit and has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Stoker. These stories include four Spider-Man novels, including the Sinister Six trilogy, and stories involving characters of Andrea Cort, Ernst Vossoff, and Karl Nimmitz. Castro is also known for his Gustav Gloom series of middle-school novels and has also authored a reference book on The Amazing Race .

Awards

Castro's fiction has been nominated for eight Nebulas, two Hugos, two Seiuns, the World Fantasy Award, and three Stokers.

Awards for Adam-Troy Castro
WorkYear & AwardCategoryResultRef.
The Last Robot1993 Locus Award Short StoryNominated [2]
Baby Girl Diamond1995 Bram Stoker Award Long FictionNominated
The Funeral March of the Marionettes1998 Locus AwardNovellaNominated
1998 Nebula Award NovellaNominated
1998 Hugo Award NovellaNominated
The Astronaut from Wyoming

(with Jerry Oltion)

2000 Locus AwardNovellaNominated
1999 HOMer AwardNovellaNominated [3]
1999 Analog AwardNovellaWon [4]
2000 Hugo AwardNovellaNominated
2000 Nebula AwardNovellaNominated
2007 Seiun Award Translated Short StoryWon
Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's2001 Analog AwardNovellaWon [5]
2002 Locus AwardNovellaNominated
2003 Nebula AwardNovellaNominated
Unseen Demons2002 Analog AwardNovella3rd Place [6]
2003 Locus AwardNovellaNominated
Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs2004 Nebula AwardNoveletteNominated
The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes2004 Theodore Sturgeon Award Finalist
2005 Nebula AwardNovellaNominated
The Shallow End of the Pool2008 Bram Stoker AwardLong FictionNominated
2008 Black Quill AwardsSmall Press ChillNominated [7]
Emissaries from the Dead2008 Philip K. Dick Award Won
2022 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign NovelNominated [8]
Gunfight on Farside2009 Analog AwardNovella3rd Place [9]
2010 FantLab's Book of the Year Award Novella/Short StoryNominated
With Unclean Hands2011 Analog AwardNovellaWon [10]
2012 Nebula AwardNovellaNominated
2013 Seiun AwardTranslated Short StoryNominated
Hiding Place2011 Analog AwardNovella4th Place
Arvies 2011 Million Writers Award -Won
2011 Nebula AwardShort StoryNominated
War of the Marionettes2011 Kurd Laßwitz Award Foreign WorkNominated [11]
Her Husband's Hands 2012 Nebula AwardShort StoryNominated
2013 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short StoriesNominated [12]
2014 Premio Ignotus Foreign StoryNominated
Sleeping Dogs2015 Analog AwardNovella3rd Place [13]
Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent2015 Analog AwardShort Story2nd Place
The Coward's Option2016 Analog AwardNovellaWon [14]
The Soul Behind the Face2016 Analog AwardNovella3rd Place
The Thing About Shapes to Come2017 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short StoriesNominated [15]
A Stab of the Knife2018 Analog AwardNovella3rd Place [16]
Blurred Lives2018 Analog AwardNovella4th Place
The Unnecessary Parts of the Story2018 Analog AwardShort StoryWon
The Gorilla in a Tutu Principle or, Pecan Pie at Minnie and Earl's2019 Analog AwardNovellaWon [17]
The Savannah Problem2019 Analog AwardNovella2nd Place
The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation2019 World Fantasy Award Short FictionNominated
Draiken Dies2020 Analog AwardNovellaWon [18]
The Silence Before I Sleep2021 Analog AwardNovella3rd Place [19]
The Last Science Fiction Story2021 Analog AwardShort Story3rd Place
Burning the Ladder2022 Analog AwardNovella2nd Place
A Tableau of Things That Are2022 Eugie Award -Nominated
The Third Claw of God2022 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign NovelNominated
Unfamiliar Gods2023 Seiun AwardTranslated Short StoryNominated
To Fight the Colossus2023 Analog AwardNovella4th Place [20]

Bibliography

Books

Short fiction collections

Short stories

(Uncollected)

  • Clearance to Land (1989)
  • Confusing Sequel to a Story You Haven't Read (1990)
  • Synchronicity (1992)
  • The House of Nails (1993)
  • The Telltale Head (1993)
  • Scars: A Romance in Seven Acts (1993)
  • Close (1993)
  • Death Rents a Video (1994)
  • Jesus Used a Paperclip (1994)
  • Razorface Did That! (1994)
  • The Slow Hit (1994)
  • Crucifixon (1995)
  • Ragz (1995)
  • The Good, the Bad, the Danged (1995)
  • The Hand Inside (1995)
  • Vend-A-Witch (1995)
  • Family Album (1996)
  • The Way Things Ought to Be (1996)
  • What Happened Next (1997)
  • Crisis on Ward H! (1998)
  • Suds (1998)
  • The Death of Love (1998)
  • The Second Time Around (1998)
  • The Well (1998)
  • Vocabulary (1998)
  • Windshield (1998)
  • The Astronaut from Wyoming (1999) (with Jerry Oltion)
  • The Adventure of the Garrulous Codger (2003)
  • Fantasy Room (2004)
  • Good for the Soul (2005)
  • After the Protocols (2006)
  • The Night of the Living POTUS (2008)
  • After the Ice (2008)
  • Among the Tchi (2009)
  • The Anteroom (2010)
  • During the Pause (2012)
  • Another Friendly Day in the Antique Trade (2014)
  • The Thing About Shapes to Come (2014)
  • The Totals (2014)
  • Hide and Shriek (2014)
  • In the Temple of Celestial Pleasures (2014)
  • Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent (2015)
  • Framing Mortensen (2016)
  • Death Every Seventy-Two Minutes (2017)
  • Shakesville (2017) (with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
  • Unfamiliar Gods (2017) (with Judi B. Castro)
  • Q & A (2017)
  • James, in the Golden Sunlight of the Hereafter (2017)
  • A Touch of Heart (2017) (with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
  • The Mouth of the Oyster (2017) (with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
  • The Streets of Babel (2018)
  • Pitcher Plant (2018)
  • The Unnecessary Parts of the Story (2018)
  • The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation (2018)
  • Example (2019)
  • The Minor Superhero, at Home after His Series Ends (2019)
  • Sand Castles (2019)
  • On an Old Man's Contemplation of an Archway Sealed with Stones (2019)
  • Genesis for Dyslexics (2019)
  • Sacrid's Pod (2019)
  • Dollhouse (2019)
  • Eros Pratfalled, Or, Adrift in the Cosmos with Lasagna and Mary Steenburgen (2019)
  • Fortune's Final Hand (2020)
  • Today's Question of the Day in Waverly, Ohio (2020)
  • Many Happy Returns (2020)
  • Decorating with Luke (2020)
  • The Time Traveler's Advice to the Lovelorn (2020)
  • The End of the World Measured in Values of N (2020)
  • The Monkey Trap (2020)
  • The Wallpaper Out of Space (2020)
  • Answering the Questions You Might Have About the Kharbat (2021)
  • Rotten Little Town: An Oral History (Abridged) (2021)
  • The Last Science Fiction Story (2021)
  • And Now, a Preview of Coming Attractions (2021)
  • A Tableau of Things That Are (2021)
  • Judi (2021)
  • The Silence Before I Sleep (2021)
  • Glimpses in Amber (2021)
  • Ten Scenes from a Typical Day in the Life of the All-Powerful Despot (2021)
  • Fairy Tale (2021)
  • Orientation (2022)
  • The Last Act at the Time Cabaret (2022)
  • Cards on the Table (2022)
  • My Future Self, Refused (2022)
  • The Arm Ouroboros (2022)
  • One Wild Night (2022)
  • The Conflagration at the Museum of You (2022)
  • With the Wheeze of a Glass Sentence (2022)
  • The Day the Earthman Didn't Show (2023)
  • An Inconvenient Man (2023)
  • Spaceman Jones (2023)
  • To Fight the Colossus (2023)
  • Five Things That Go Through Your Mind After the Masked Killer Decapitates You with an Axe and Your Still-Living Head Has a Few Seconds of Consciousness Left to Gaze at Your Twitching Body (2023)
  • Seed (2023)
  • Farewell to Faust (2024)
  • Gab (2024)
  • The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics (2024)
  • The Terrible Secret of the Immortal Bards (2024)
  • Minnie and Earl Have a Kitten (2024)
  • Amelia's Story (2024)
  • What We Plan to Do with You (2024)
  • Message in a Babel (2025)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "RECENZE: Adam-Troy Castro, Vyslanci mrtvých". Neviditelný pes (in Czech). February 15, 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
  2. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards
  3. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?22+1999
  4. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+1999
  5. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2001
  6. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2002
  7. ↑ http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/2nd-annual-nominees/
  8. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2022
  9. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2009
  10. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2011
  11. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+2011
  12. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2013
  13. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2015
  14. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2016
  15. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2017
  16. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2018
  17. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2019
  18. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2020
  19. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2021
  20. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2023
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