Monteleone, Thomas F
Entry updated 31 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1946- ) US author active in sf since 1972, first with book reviews in Amazing, then with short stories, beginning with "Wendigo's Child" for Monster Tales (anth 1973) edited by Roger Elwood. nine of them (plus a play) are collected in Dark Stars, and Other Illuminations (coll 1981). These were more ambitious than most of his work at novel length, which is undemanding adventure fiction, starting with Seeds of Change (1975); this is of interest in that, as the first of the Laser Books, it was issued free to libraries and booksellers as a promotional item in order to generate sales of later titles. Monteleone's subsequent sf novels include The Time-Swept City (fixup 1977), featuring a city-controlling Computer in the process of developing sentience; The Secret Sea (1979), with Jules Verne's Captain Nemo and the Nautilus turning up in one of a set of Parallel Worlds; and the entertaining Post-Holocaust Guardian sequence: Guardian (1980) and Ozymandias (1981); in the first volume a pre-holocaust supercomputer is found, and in the second it is incarnated in a human body. The rather derivative Dragonstar sequence with David F Bischoff – Day of the Dragonstar (1983), Night of the Dragonstar (1985) and Dragonstar Destiny (1989) – is about First Contact with a saurian race aboard a vast, alien spacecraft. In 1980 Monteleone moved to horror/dark fantasy with Night Things (1980), returning to it with Night-Train (1984) and later with others.
Monteleone is a thoughtful editor. His two sf theme anthologies are The Arts, and Beyond: Visions of Man's Aesthetic Future (anth 1977) and R-A-M: Random Access Messages of the Computer Age (anth 1984; vt Microworlds: SF Stories of the Computer Age 1985). The Borderlands horror anthology sequence, whose later volumes were edited in collaboration with Elizabeth Monteleone, opened with Borderlands (anth 1990) [for further titles see Checklist below]. [PN]
see also: Arts.
Thomas Francis Monteleone
born Baltimore, Maryland: 14 April 1946
works
series
Guardian
- Guardian (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1980) [Guardian: hb/Gary Friedman]
- Ozymandias (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1981) [Guardian: hb/Karen Grant]
Dragonstar
- Day of the Dragonstar (New York: Berkley Books, 1983) with David F Bischoff [first appeared in much different form September-December 1981 Analog: Dragonstar: pb/Attila Hejja]
- Night of the Dragonstar (New York: Berkley Books, 1985) with David F Bischoff [Dragonstar: pb/]
- Dragonstar Destiny (New York: Ace Books, 1989) with David F Bischoff [Dragonstar: pb/Joe DeVito]
Nocturnia Chronicles
- Definitely Not Kansas (Grantham, New Hampshire: Borderlands Press, 2015) as Tom Monteleone with F Paul Wilson [Nocturnia Chronicles: pb/Gioconda Padovan]
- Family Secrets (Grantham, New Hampshire: Borderlands Press, 2015) as Tom Monteleone with F Paul Wilson [Nocturnia Chronicles: hb/]
individual titles
- Seeds of Change (Toronto, Ontario: Laser Books, 1975) [pb/Kelly Freas]
- The Time Connection (New York: Popular Library, 1976) [pb/]
- The Time-Swept City (New York: Popular Library, 1977) [fixup: pb/Jack Gaughan]
- The Secret Sea (New York: Popular Library, 1979) [pb/Clyde Caldwell]
- Night Things (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1980) [hb/Gary Friedman]
- Night-Train (New York: Pocket Books, 1984) [pb/Lisa Falkenstem]
- Crooked House (New York: Tor, 1987) with John DeChancie [pb/]
- Lyrica (New York: Berkley Books, 1987) [pb/]
- The Magnificent Gallery (New York: Tor, 1987) [pb/Linda Garland]
- Fantasma (New York: Tor, 1989) [pb/]
- The Blood of the Lamb (New York: Tor, 1992) [hb/Dave Fishman]
- The Resurrectionist (New York: Warner Books/Aspect, 1995) [pb/Phil Hefferman]
- The Night of Broken Souls (New York: Warner Books/Aspect, 1997) [pb/Don Puckey, Tony Greco]
- The Reckoning (New York: Tor/Forge, 1999) [hb/Alan Ayers]
- Eyes of the Virgin (New York: Tor/Forge, 2002) [hb/Greg Spalenka]
collections and stories
- Dark Stars, and Other Illuminations (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1981) [coll: hb/Roger Zimmerman]
- Between Floors (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 1997) [story: pb/Roger Gerberding]
- Rough Beasts and Other Mutations (Waterville, Maine: Five Star, 2003) [coll: hb/Alan M Clark]
- Fearful Symmetries (Cemetery Dance, 2004) [coll: hb/]
- A Little Brown Book of Bizarre Stories (Grantham, New Hampshire: Borderlands Press, 2004) [coll: hb/]
- Dark Arts (Cashion, Arizona: Thunderstorm Books, 2014) [coll: hb/Harry O Morris]
works as editor
series
Borderlands
- Borderlands (Baltimore, Maryland: Maclay and Associates, 1990) [anth: Borderlands: hb/Rick Lieder]
- Borderlands 1 (Stone Mountain, Georgia: White Wolf, 1992) [anth: vt of the above: Borderlands: pb/Dave McKean]
- Borderlands 2 (Baltimore, Maryland: Borderlands Press, 1991) [anth: Borderlands: hb/Rick Lieder]
- Borderlands 3: An Anthology of Imaginative Fiction (Baltimore, Maryland: Borderlands Press, 1994) [anth: Borderlands: hb/Rick Lieder]
- Borderlands 4 (Baltimore, Maryland: Borderlands Press, 1994) with Elizabeth Monteleone [anth: Borderlands: hb/]
- Borderlands 5: An Anthology of Imaginative Fiction (Grantham, New Hampshire: Borderlands Press, 2003) with Elizabeth Monteleone [anth: Borderlands: hb/Michael Wilby]
- From the Borderland: Stories of Terror and Madness (New York: Warner Books, 2004) with Elizabeth Monteleone [anth: rev vt of the above: Borderlands: pb/]
individual titles as editor
- The Arts, and Beyond: Visions of Man's Aesthetic Future (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1977) [anth: hb/Jonathan Weld]
- R-A-M: Random Access Messages of the Computer Age (Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey: Hayden Publishing, 1984) [anth: pb/Michael Tcherevkoff]
- Microworlds: SF Stories of the Computer Age (London: Severn House, 1985) [anth: vt of the above: hb/]
nonfiction
- The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association (Grantham, New Hampshire: Borderlands Press, 2003) [nonfiction: coll: assembling the MAFIA column from various sources, first appeared between 1976 and 2003: hb/Elizabeth Monteleone]
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