Hoobler, Thomas
Entry updated 31 March 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1942-2025) US editor and author, mostly of nonfiction for young audiences in collaboration with his wife, Dorothy Hoobler, with at least 100 titles beginning in the 1970s. Of sf interest is the Hunters sequence comprising The Hunters (1978) with Burt Wetanson and The Treasure Hunters (1983) with Burt Wetanson, featuring a race of Aliens who use Earth as an arena for staged (but not unfair) combats between them and humans (see Games and Sports); Dr Chill's Project (1987; vt Dr Chill 1989), an sf juvenile involving Psi Powers and the kindly Dr Chill, who helps his charges survive their schooling; and In Darkness, Death (2004) with Dorothy Hoobler, a Japanese detection with marginal fantasy elements. The Monsters: Mary Shelley & the Curse of Frankenstein (2006) with Dorothy Hoobler is an alert study. (see Mary Shelley). [JC]
Thomas William Hoobler
born Cincinnati, Ohio: 12 June 1942
died New York: 22 February 2025
works
series
Hunters
- The Hunters (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1978) with Burt Wetanson [Hunters: hb/Steven Stroud]
- The Treasure Hunters (New York: Playboy Paperbacks, 1983) with Burt Wetanson [Hunters: pb/]
individual titles
- Dr Chill's Project (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1987) [hb/Mike Wimmer]
- Dr Chill (London: Piper, 1989) [vt of the above: pb/Barry Jones]
- The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (New York: Penguin Philomel, 1999) with Dorothy Hoobler [hb/Stephen T Johnson]
- In Darkness, Death (New York: Philomel Books, 2004) with Dorothy Hoobler [Judge Ooka: hb/Greg Call]
nonfiction
- The Monsters: Mary Shelley & the Curse of Frankenstein (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2006) with Dorothy Hoobler [nonfiction: hb/from Henry Fuseli]
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