Adam-Troy Castro

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Adam-Troy Castro
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
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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 and nominations

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

In 2007, Castro and Jerry Oltion won the Seiun Award for Best Foreign Language Short Story of the Year for "The Astronaut from Wyoming."

In 2009, Castro won the Philip K. Dick Award for Emissaries from the Dead.

"The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation" was nominated for the 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. [2]

Bibliography

Books

Short fiction

Collections
Stories
YearTitleFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
1999"The Astronaut From Wyoming" (July 1999). "The Astronaut From Wyoming". Analog .
2002"Unseen Daemons" (July–August 2002). "Unseen Daemons". Analog .
2009"Among the Tchi" (May 2009). "Among the Tchi". Analog . 129 (5).
"Gunfight on Farside" (April 2009). "Gunfight on Farside". Analog . 129 (4).
2010"Arvies" (August 2010). "Arvies". Lightspeed (3).
2011"Hiding Place" (April 2011). "Hiding Place". Analog .
"Her Husband's Hands" (October 2011). "Her Husband's Hands". Lightspeed (17).
"With Unclean Hands" (November 2011). "With Unclean Hands". Analog .
2015"Tasha's Fail-Safe" (March 2015). "Tasha's Fail-Safe". Analog . 135 (3): 8–24.
"Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent" (April 2015). "Down Please". Analog . 135 (4): 69–75.
"Evangelist" (November 2015). "Evangelist". Analog . 135 (11): 64–71.

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References

  1. "RECENZE: Adam-Troy Castro, Vyslanci mrtvých". Neviditelný pes (in Czech). February 15, 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
  2. "World Fantasy Awards 2019 | World Fantasy Convention" . Retrieved July 25, 2019.