Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew
Entry updated 15 September 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1973- ) US Comics writer for DC Comics and Marvel Comics, and author of Technothrillers with a Horror cast, whose first novels were published under his full name, though he more recently writes as Gregg Hurwitz, including his main series, the borderline-sf Orphan X sequence beginning with Orphan X (2016), whose rogue protagonist, like a famous earlier model (see Bourne Films), has been enhanced into a virtual Cyborg, enabling him to do freelance good (see also Superman). Hurwitz's first singleton of sf interest is Minutes to Burn (2001), in which, tellingly, Mutant distortions of the theory of Evolution are found on an Island in the Galapágos archipelago. Ecological disaster looms. The Young Adult Rains Brothers sequence, comprising The Rains (2016) and Last Chance (2017), follows its young protagonists' attempts to escape an Alien-induced Pandemic which transforms everyone over eighteen into Zombies; eventually the "Harvester" Invasion is defeated by the three youths. [JC]
Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
born San Francisco Bay Area, California: 12 August 1973
works
series
Rains Brothers
- The Rains (New York: Tor, 2016) [Rains Brothers: hb/Rekha Garton]
- Last Chance (New York: Tor, 2017) [Rains Brothers: hb/Patrizio Martorana]
Orphan X
- Orphan X (New York: Minotaur, 2016) [Orphan X: hb/]
- The Nowhere Man (New York: Minotaur, 2017) [Orphan X: hb/]
- Hellbent (New York: Minotaur, 2018) [Orphan X: hb/]
- Out of the Dark (New York: Minotaur, 2019) [Orphan X: hb/]
- Into the Fire (New York: Minotaur, 2020) [Orphan X: hb/]
- Prodigal Son (New York: Minotaur, 2021) [Orphan X: hb/]
- Dark Horse (New York: Minotaur, 2022) [Orphan X: hb/]
- The Last Orphan (New York: Minotaur, 2023) [Orphan X: hb/]
- Lone Wolf (New York: Minotaur, 2024) [Orphan X: hb/]
- Nemesis (New York: Minotaur, 2025) [Orphan X: hb/]
individual titles
- Minutes to Burn (New York: HarperCollins/Cliff Street, 2001) [hb/]
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