Anderson, Barth
Entry updated 8 December 2025. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1964- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Landlocked" in Talebones for Winter 2000, and has written Horror stories as part of the "Ratbastards" group which wrote and edited the Rabid Transit anthologies [see Checklist below]. The Patron Saint of Plagues (2006), a Near Future thriller set in a Near Future expansive Mexico partially populated by Cyborgs, where a suspiciously artefactual plague is investigated by a doctor from the United States – a country by now devastated by economic collapse. The Magician and the Fool (2008), a thriller in the Secret History mode, verges towards the fantastic. [JC]
Barth Anderson
born 27 November 1964
works
- The Patron Saint of Plagues (New York: Bantam Spectra, 2006) [pb/]
- The Magician and the Fool (New York: Bantam Spectra, 2008) [pb/]
works as editor
series
Rabid Transit
- Rabid Transit: New Fiction by the Ratbastards (St Paul, Minnesota: Velocity Press, 2002) with Christopher Barzak, Anya Johanna DeNiro and Kristin Livdahl, together as by Ratbastards [anth: chap: Rabid Transit: pb/]
- Rabid Transit: A Mischief of Rats (St Paul, Minnesota: Velocity Press, 2003) with Christopher Barzak, Anya Johanna DeNiro and Kristin Livdahl, together as by Ratbastards [anth: chap: Rabid Transit: pb/]
- Rabid Transit: Petting Zoo (St Paul, Minnesota: Rabid Transit Press, 2003) with Christopher Barzak, Anya Johanna DeNiro and Kristin Livdahl, together as by Ratbastards [anth: chap: Rabid Transit: pb/Jesse McManus]
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