Pollotta, Nick
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of US author Nicholas Angelo Pollotta (1954-2013), most of whose work in sf and other genres was under pseudonyms or House Names, including James Axler, Jack Hopkins and Don Pendleton, but who began publishing sf with Illegal Aliens (1989), with Phil Foglio providing extensive illustrations for this comic novel about a street gang in New York which hamstrings the attempts of Aliens to manipulate our planet. The Satellite Night series, beginning with Satellite Night News (1993) as by Jack Hopkins, is a similarly light-hearted tale featuring the comical but competent employees at a (seemingly anachronous) twenty-third century news channel. Most Pollotta's further work is fantasy – or, in the case of Ties to the Don Pendleton enterprise, action thrillers – with the exception of his several contributions to the James Axler Deathlands sequence of Survivalist Fiction tales set in a Ruined Earth about a century after the nuclear Holocaust which ends civilization. [JC]
Nicholas Angelo Pollotta
born Saddlebrook, New Jersey: 26 August 1954
died Chicago, Illinois: 13 April 2013
works
series
Bureau 13
For the Bureau 13 game background, see Stalking the Night Fantastic.
- Bureau 13 (New York: Ace Books, 1991) [tie to the Role Playing Game: Bureau 13: pb/Dorian Vallejo]
- Bureau 13: Doomsday Exam (New York: Ace Books, 1992) [tie to the Role Playing Game: Bureau 13: pb/Larry Dixon]
- Bureau 13: Doomsday Exam (Holicong, Pennsylvania: Wildside Press, 1993) [tie to the Role Playing Game: exp as coll of the above: Bureau 13: pb/Steven Fastner and Rich Larson]
- Full Moonster (New York: Ace Books, 1992) [tie to the Role Playing Game: Bureau 13: pb/Dorian Vallejo]
- Bureau 13: Full Moonster (Holicong, Pennsylvania: Wildside Press, 1993) [tie to the Role Playing Game: exp as coll: vt of the above: Bureau 13: pb/Steven Fastner and Rich Larson]
- Bureau 13: Judgment Night (Holicong, Pennsylvania: Wildside Press, 2001) [tie to the Role Playing Game: the relationship of this text to an earlier Ace Books version or to a later version from the current publisher is unknown: pb/Steven Fastner and Rich Larson]
- Bureau 13: Damned Nation (Holicong, Pennsylvania: Wildside Press, 2005) [tie to the Role Playing Game: pb/]
- Bureau 13 RPG Manual (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2006) with Richard Tucholka [tie to the Role Playing Game: pb/]
Satellite Night
- Satellite Night News (New York: Ace Books, 1993) as by Jack Hopkins [Satellite Night: pb/John Steven Gurney]
- Satellite Night Special (New York: Ace Books, 1993) as by Jack Hopkins [Satellite Night: pb/John Steven Gurney]
- Satellite Night Fever (New York: Ace Books, 1994) as by Jack Hopkins [Satellite Night: pb/John Steven Gurney]
Deathlands
- Deathlands #46: Gemini Rising (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 1999) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/Michael Herring]
- Deathlands #47: Gaia's Demise (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 1999) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/Michael Herring]
- Deathlands #48: Dark Reckoning (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 1999) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/Michael Herring]
- Deathlands #50: Pandora's Redoubt (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2000) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/Michael Herring]
- Deathlands #52: Zero City (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2000) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/Michael Herring]
- Deathlands #53: Savage Armada (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2001) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/Michael Herring]
- Deathlands #54: Judas Strike (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2001) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/Michael Herring]
- Deathlands #55: Shadow Fortress (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2001) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/Michael Herring]
- Deathlands #63: Devil Riders: Scorpion God – Book 1 (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2003) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/Michael Herring]
- Deathlands #64: Devil Riders: Scorpion God – Book 2 (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2003) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/Michael Herring]
- Deathlands #75: Shatter Zone: The ColdFire Project – Book 1 (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2006) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/]
- Deathlands #76: Perdition Valley: The Coldfire Project – Book 2 (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2006) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/]
- Deathlands #78: Sky Raiders (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2007) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/]
- Deathlands #81: Desert Kings (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2008) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/]
- Deathlands #89: Time Castaways (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2009) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/]
- Deathlands #95: Moonfeast (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2010) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/]
- Deathlands #98: Tainted Cascade (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2011) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/]
- Deathlands #100: Prodigal's Return (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2011) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/Dave Seeley]
- Deathlands #110: Sins of Honor (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2013) as by James Axler [Deathlands: pb/Dave Seeley]
individual titles
- Illegal Aliens (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR, 1989) [pb/Phil Foglio]
- Shadowrun: Shadowboxer (New York: Penguin Books/Roc, 1997) [tie to the Shadowrun Role Playing Game: pb/Luis Royo]
- That Darn Squid God (Holicong, Pennsylvania: Wildside Press, 2005) with Phil Foglio writing as James Clay [hb/Steven Fastner and Rich Larson]
collections
- Tequila Mockingbird (Holicong, Pennsylvania: Wildside Press, 2005) [coll: pb/Charles Bernard]
- Invasion from Uranus (Ontario, Canada: Double Dragon Publishing, 2008) [coll: pb/]
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