Castro, Adam-Troy
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1960- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Clearance to Land" for Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine #5, Fall 1989, and much of whose subsequent work for some years was Horror, though he has published Print On Demand collections which include sf, and Tangled Strings (coll 2004), which incorporates two tales from his AIsource Infection Future History sequence. Vossoff and Nummitz: Just a Couple of Idiots Reupholstering Space and Time (coll 2002) knowledgeably presents a series of tales in the Dumb-and-Dumber tradition made explicit in its subtitle. Castro also had some impact for his Spider-Man Ties, beginning with Spider-Man: The Gathering of the Sinister Six (1999). Of greater interest, however, is the Andrea Cort sequence whose first volume, Emissaries from the Dead (2008), won the Philip K Dick Award in 2008; it is set in Zoo-like Keeps in a manufactured ecosystem ruled by Aliens with life-and-death control over the various Genetically Engineered races under observation. [JC]
see also: Seiun Award.
Adam-Troy Castro
born 20 May 1960
works
series
Andrea Cort
- Emissaries from the Dead (New York: Eos, 2008) [Andrea Cort: pb/Chris McGrath]
- The Third Claw of God (New York: Eos, 2009) [Andrea Cort: pb/Chris McGrath]
individual titles
- Lost in Booth Nine (Woodinville, Washington: Silver Salamander Press, 1993) [coll: hb/Alan Bard Newcomer]
- An Alien Darkness (Gillette, New Jersey: Wildside Press, 2000) [coll: pb/Amy Sterling]
- A Desperate, Decaying Darkness (Gillette, New Jersey: Wildside Press, 2000) [coll: pb/Amy Sterling]
- Vossoff and Nummitz: Just a Couple of Idiots Reupholstering Space and Time (Gillette, New Jersey: Wildside Press, 2000) [coll: Vossoff and Nummitz: pb/]
- Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's (no place given: Fictionwise, 2003) [story: ebook: first appeared June 2001 Analog: na/]
- With Stars in Their Eyes (Gillette, New Jersey: Wildside Press, 2004) with Jerry Oltion [coll: three stories each: pb/]
- Tangled Strings (Waterville, Maine: Five Star, 2004) [coll: hb/Alan M Clark and Kevin Ward]
- The Shallow End of the Pool (Albany, Louisiana: Creeping Hemlock Press, 2008) [chap: pb/]
- Her Husband's Hands and Other Stories (Germantown, Maryland: Prime Books, 2014) [coll: pb/]
- V Is for Vampire (New York: HarperVoyager, 2011) [chap: alphabet book: illus/pb/Johnny Atomic]
- Z Is for Zombie: An Illustrated Guide to the End of the World (New York: HarperVoyager, 2011) [chap: alphabet book: illus/pb/Johnny Atomic]
ties
X-Men and Spider-Man
- X-Men & Spider-Man: Time's Arrow: The Present (New York: Berkley Boulevard, 1998) with Tom DeFalco [tie to The X-Men and Spider-Man: X-Men; Spider-Man: pb/Jim Burns]
Spider-Man
- Spider-Man: The Gathering of the Sinister Six (New York: Berkley Boulevard, 1999) [tie: Spider-Man: pb/Ernie Colon]
- Spider-Man: Revenge of the Sinister Six (New York: Pocket/BP Books, 2001) [tie: Spider-Man: pb/Mike Zeck and Phil Zimelman]
- Spider-Man: Secret of the Sinister Six (New York: Pocket/ibooks, 2001) [tie: Spider-Man: pb/Mike Zeck]
- Spider-Man: The Sinister Six Combo (New York: ibooks/BP Books, 2001) [omni of the above two: tie: Spider-Man: pb/Mike Zeck]
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