Melton, Henry
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1949- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "We Hold These Rights ..." in Stellar #3 (anth 1977) edited by Judy-Lynn del Rey; his loose Small Towns, Big Ideas sequence for the Young Adult market, beginning with Emperor Dad (2007), tends to feature young protagonists who flummox the big world outside with the aid of Inventions and raw ingenuity, though they are sometimes exposed to threats to their personal Identity, and at least once – in Golden Girl (2010) – are thrust by Time Travel into desperate worlds, in this case a future Earth half-destroyed by an asteroid Disaster. [JC]
Henry Melton
born Siloam Springs, Arkansas: 25 December 1949
works
series
Small Towns, Big Ideas
- Emperor Dad (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2007) [Small Towns, Big Ideas: pb/Wes Hartman]
- Roswell or Bust (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2008) [Small Towns, Big Ideas: pb/Christian Cartwright]
- Extreme Makeover (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2008) [Small Towns, Big Ideas: pb/Autumn-Angel]
- Lighter than Air (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2008) [Small Towns, Big Ideas: pb/Wes Hartman and David Hutchinson]
- Falling Backwards (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2009) [Small Towns, Big Ideas: pb/Fred Perry and Wes Hartman]
- Golden Girl (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2009) [Small Towns, Big Ideas: pb/David Hutchinson and Wes Hartman]
- Follow That Mouse (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2010) [Small Towns, Big Ideas: pb/]
- Bearing Northeast (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2011) [Small Towns, Big Ideas: pb/]
- The Copper Room (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2011) [Small Towns, Big Ideas: pb/Fred Perry and Wes Hartman]
- Breaking Anchor (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2012) [Small Towns, Big Ideas: pb/Fred Perry and Wes Hartman]
The Project Saga
- Star Time (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2011) [The Project Saga: pb/]
- Kingdom of the Hill Country (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2012) [The Project Saga: pb/]
- In the Time of Green Blimps (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2013) [The Project Saga: pb/]
- Captain's Memories (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2014) [coll: The Project Saga: pb/]
- Humancide (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2015) [coll: The Project Saga: pb/]
The Project Saga: Tales of the U'tanse
- Tales of the U'tanse (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2014) [coll: The Project Saga: Tales of the U'tanse: pb/Djamila Knopf]
- Free U'tanse (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2014) [The Project Saga: Tales of the U'tanse: pb/Djamila Knopf]
individual titles
- Pixie Dust (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2012) [pb/Arthur Wang]
collections
- Henry's Stories: Volume 1 (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2012) [pb/]
- Henry's Stories: Volume 2 (Round Rock, Texas: Wire Rim Books, 2013) [pb/Ilyana Mansfield]
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