Davis, Hank
Entry updated 26 January 2026. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1944- ) US author and editor who began to publish work of genre interest with "Squatter's Rights" in If for March 1968. Ten more short stories followed at intervals until 2022, with another long announced for the never-published full version of Harlan Ellison's «The Last Dangerous Visions»; of the published tales, perhaps the most notable was "To Plant a Seed" in Orbit 11 (anth 1972) edited by Damon Knight, an ambitious Cosmological treatment of the Stasis Field trope.
Davis has published no genre novels and became best known in sf circles as an anthologist for Baen Books, beginning with the The Best of the Bolos: Their Finest Hour (2010); this assembles various authors' contributions to the Shared World of Keith Laumer's Bolo sequence, including three tales by Laumer himself. It was followed by the Christmas-themed A Cosmic Christmas (anth 2012), its sequel A Cosmic Christmas 2 You (anth 2013) , and many further anthologies [see Checklist below], from 2018 always edited in collaboration with Christopher Ruocchio or others. [DRL]
Henry T Davis
born Benham, Kentucky: 27 February 1944
works
works as editor
series
A Cosmic Christmas
- A Cosmic Christmas (New York: Baen Books, 2012) [anth: A Cosmic Christmas: pb/Bob Eggleton]
- A Cosmic Christmas 2 You (New York: Baen Books, 2013) [anth: A Cosmic Christmas: pb/Sam Kennedy]
individual titles as editor
- The Best of the Bolos: Their Finest Hour (New York: Baen Books, 2010) [anth: pb/Tom Kidd]
- In Space No One Can Hear You Scream (New York: Baen Books, 2013) [anth: pb/Bob Eggleton]
- The Baen Big Book of Monsters (New York: Baen Books, 2014) [anth: pb/Bob Eggleton]
- As Time Goes By (New York: Baen Books, 2015) [anth: pb/Adam Burn]
- Future Wars ... and Other Punchlines (New York: Baen Books, 2015) [anth: pb/Alan Pollack]
- Worst Contact (New York: Baen Books, 2016) [anth: pb/Stephen Hickman]
- Things from Outer Space (New York: Baen Books, 2016) [anth: pb/Alan Pollack]
- If This Goes Wrong ... (New York: Baen Books, 2017) [anth: pb/Dominic Harman]
- Space Pioneers (New York: Baen Books, 2018) with Christopher Ruocchio [anth: pb/Bob Eggleton]
- Overruled! (New York: Baen Books, 2020) with Christopher Ruocchio [anth: pb/Tom Kidd]
- Cosmic Corsairs (New York: Baen Books, 2020) with Christopher Ruocchio [anth: pb/Tom Kidd]
- Time Troopers (New York: Baen Books, 2022) with Christopher Ruocchio [anth: pb/]
- They're Here! (New York: Baen Books, 2023) with Sean C W Korsgaard [anth: pb/Alan Pollack]
- Depth Charge (New York: Baen Books, 2024) with Jamie Ibson [anth: pb/Alan Pollack]
- Tomorrow's Troopers: Men, Machines, and Tomorrow's Battlefields (New York: Baen Books, 2024) with David Afsharirad [anth: pb/Dominic Harman]
- All Roads Lead to Rome (New York: Baen Books, 2025) with David Afsharirad [anth: pb/]
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