David Wellington (author)

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David Wellington
BornDavid Wellington
1971 (age 5253)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Pen nameD. Nolan Clark
OccupationAuthor
LanguageEnglish
Education Syracuse University
Pennsylvania State University (MFA)
Pratt Institute
Genre Horror
Notable works Monster Island
Website
davidwellington.net

David Wellington (born 1971) is an American writer of horror fiction, best known for his Zombie trilogy. He also writes science fiction as D. Nolan Clark.

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Biography

Wellington was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Syracuse University and received an MFA in creative writing from Penn State. He also holds a master's degree in Library Science from the Pratt Institute. [1] He now lives in New York City. [2]

He made his debut as a comic book writer on Marvel Zombies Return: Iron Man . [3] His novel The Last Astronaut was nominated for the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award. [4]

Published works

Revenant-X

Revenant-X is the second book of the Red Space trilogy, directly following the events of Paradise-1. Revenant-X follows the crew of Artemis as they descend on Paradise-1 to find what is left of the colony they are trying to save. However, the colony, or what remains of it, is not human. Revenant-X is set to be released on November 5, 2024.

Revenant-X is in reference to one of the characters [5] in the trilogy, who, however, has not been called as such in the stories yet.

Paradise-1

A blend of sci-fi and horror, Paradise-1 is the first novel in a trilogy about exploration and survival in deep space. In the novel, a police lieutenant who is tracking a serial killer finds that the suspect has kidnapped his victims and is keeping them imprisoned in a mining facility. After she calls in the arrest, her superior tells her to not report the discovery of the kidnapped victims, and she is reassigned to Paradise-1, a distant colony planet.

She is mystified by the order to not report on the kidnapping victims, who were filthy, hungry and unable to use language, and she perceives her reassignment to be a plan to get her out of sight.

Along with a doctor with who was the only survivor from a different disease outbreak and a military pilot who was her former lover in college, she goes into cryosleep and embarks on the three month trip in an unarmed transport ship. The humans are accompanied by a shape-shifting robot and an advanced AI module.

As the ship nears the planet, she is awakened from cryosleep by klaxons, as their ship is under attack from a nearby transport ship. As their ship is torn apart from projectiles, its communications and propulsion system becomes inoperable. Amidst the burning wreckage, the team sees that military vessels are converging on their ship. The team must improvise with the few remaining functions and tools to defend themselves and evade further attacks.

Monster trilogy

The Monster novels involve a global zombie apocalypse and describe how humanity has been reduced to tiny pockets of existence.

  1. Monster Island
  2. Monster Nation
  3. Monster Planet

Vampire series

Wellington's vampire novels follow a Pennsylvania state trooper battling a centuries-old vampire.

  1. 13 Bullets (2006 online serialization; 2007 print)
  2. 99 Coffins (2007)
  3. Vampire Zero (2008)
  4. 23 Hours (2009)
  5. 32 Fangs (published April 2012) [6] [7]

Werewolf series

Wellington's werewolf novels are set in remote Arctic Canada. The series follows werewolves who are being hunted to extinction by humans.

  1. Frostbite was published on October 6, 2009. The web serialization can be found at Wellington's website.
  2. Overwinter was released on September 14, 2010. [8]

Plague Zone

Plague Zone is a zombie novel set in the state of Washington. [9] It is completed in serial online, but not yet[ when? ] published in print. (Online serialization. Went to Kindle September 2012)[ citation needed ]

Jim Chapel missions

The Silence trilogy (as D. Nolan Clark)

The first novel, Forsaken Skies, was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews as containing "the usual complications, heroics, and surprises (...), all professionally packaged and produced and entirely unmemorable". [10]

  1. Forsaken Skies (2016), ISBN   978-0-316-35569-8
  2. Forgotten Worlds (2017), ISBN   978-0-316-35577-3
  3. Forbidden Suns (2017), ISBN   978-0-316-35581-0

Other novels

Short stories

  1. "Chuy and the Fish" in The Undead: Zombie Anthology (Oct. 2005, Permuted Press)
  2. "Cyclopean" in The Undead: Skin and Bones (Aug. 2007, Permuted Press)
  3. "Twilight in the Green Zone" in Exotic Gothic (2007, Ash-Tree Press, ed. Danel Olson). [11] Click for Podcast by author.
  4. "Grvnice" in Exotic Gothic 2 (2008, Ash-Tree Press, ed. Danel Olson). [12]
  5. "Off Radio" in Buried Tales of Pinebox, TX Archived 2011-08-12 at the Wayback Machine (June 2009, 12 to Midnight)
  6. "Atacama" in Exotic Gothic 4 (May 2012, PS Publishing, ed. Danel Olson)
  7. "The Man With The Fractal Tattoo", Whose Future is It?, chapter 3 (2018) [13]
  8. "The Passenger", Whose Future is It?, chapter 11 (2018) [13]

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References

  1. David Wellington (2007) Monster Island, Snow Book, About Author section
  2. "David Wellington Biography". Amazon. Archived from the original on 2010-06-01. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
  3. Brownfield, Troy (June 22, 2009). "The Zombies - This Time, With Literate Roots". Newsarama. Archived from the original on June 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-23.
  4. "Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020 | Science Fiction Awards Database". www.sfadb.com.
  5. "Revenant-X: New Book From The Master Of Sci-fi Horror David Wellington Releasing This Year". fully-booked.ca. 2024-07-14. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  6. "Characters Welcome: A Profile of David Wellington". Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2011-03-26.
  7. Eugune. "Brains Behind… An Interview with David Wellington". Archived from the original on 2011-01-09. Retrieved 2011-03-26.
  8. Wellington, David (2010). Overwinter: A Werewolf Tale . Three Rivers Press. ISBN   978-0307460790.
  9. "Zone". Archived from the original on 2012-02-21. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
  10. "FORSAKEN SKIES by D. Nolan Clark". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  11. Wellington, David, "Twilight in the Green Zone" (2007). Danel Olson (ed.). Exotic Gothic (Print). Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press. pp. 46–60. ISBN   978-1-55310-099-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. Wellington, David, "Grvnice" (2008). Danel Olson (ed.). Exotic Gothic 2. Ashton, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press. pp. 186–191. ISBN   978-1-55310-109-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. 1 2 "David Wellington" in Cellarius Stories, Volume 1. Cellarius, Ed., New York: 2018, ISBN   978-1-949688-02-3.