Theodore Andrus Reynolds (born October 8, 1938)[ citation needed ] is an American science fiction writer.
Two of his works were nominated for Hugo Awards in 1980: "Can These Bones Live?" for Best Short Story, and Ker-Plop for Best Novella. His only novel, The Tides of God (1989), concerns millennialism being inspired by extraterrestrials.
He was one of the winners of The Village Voice 's "Sci-Fi Scenes" writing contest, held in 1980-81; the newspaper published his untitled story of (as the contest rules demanded) exactly 250 words.
He largely stopped writing in 1996 but, after retirement, resumed in 2010.
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| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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| Can these bones live? | 1979 | Reynolds, Ted (March 1979). "Can these bones live?". Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact. | ||
| The Kroc War | 2015 | Reynolds, Ted & William F. Wu (June 2015). "The Kroc War". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (6): 43–47. | ||
| View through the window | 2012 | Reynolds, Ted (Aug 2012). "View through the window". Asimov's Science Fiction. 36 (8): 62–67. | ||
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