Heck, Peter J
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Critic.
(1941- ) US author, editor (formerly with Ace Books) and critic who as Peter Heck has written the "On Books" review column for the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction since its June 1994 issue; he has also contributed to Locus and The New York Review of Science Fiction. Solo fiction comprises the Mark Twain Mysteries sequence of historical detective novels [not listed below] featuring Mark Twain as sleuth. Heck collaborated with Robert Lynn Asprin on four volumes of the latter's Phule's Company series of Military SF/Space Opera romps, beginning with Phule's Company #3: A Phule and His Money (1999). Heck was also one of the many collaborators on the spoof Atlanta Nights (2005) as by Travis Tea. [DRL]
Peter Jewell Heck
born Chestertown, Maryland: 4 September 1941
works (selected)
series
Phule's Company
For full listing of this series see Robert Lynn Asprin.
- Phule's Company #3: A Phule and His Money (New York: Ace Books, 1999) with Robert Lynn Asprin [Phule's Company: pb/Walter Velez]
- Phule's Company #4: Phule Me Twice (New York: Ace Books, 2000) with Robert Lynn Asprin [Phule's Company: pb/Walter Velez]
- Phule's Company #5: No Phule Like an Old Phule (New York: Ace Books, 2003) with Robert Lynn Asprin [Phule's Company: pb/Walter Velez]
- Phule's Company #6: Phule's Errand (New York: Ace Books, 2006) Robert Lynn Asprin [Phule's Company: pb/Walter Velez]
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