Reintgen, Scott
Entry updated 15 September 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author of stories for younger children and of Young Adult sf and fantasy fiction series. The first of these, the Nyxia Triad sequence beginning with Nyxia (2017), traces the consequences for a group of teenagers who have been recruited by an interstellar corporation ominously called Babel to journey for a year on a Space-Operatic Starship bound for a colony planet named Eden (see Colonization of Other Worlds) where they are tasked to mine for a unique "substance" called nyxia (see McGuffin); en route the youngsters discover that they have been unknowingly enlisted into a to-the-death game (see Games and Sports) whose survivors will be entitled to continue the mission. In Nyxia Unleashed (2018) and Nyxia Rising (2019), the tale moves into Planetary Romance territory, as Eden is discovered to be complexly inhabited. The Waxways sequence beginning with A Door in the Dark (2023) is fantasy, in which (again) the growth experience of a young cast is heavily foregrounded, though a Pandemic and the key to its cure increasingly fill the background. The young protagonist of the Dragonships sequence beginning with The Last Dragon on Mars (2024), which is Science Fantasy, discovers during a hardscrabble salvage expedition that the dragon (see Supernatural Creatures) deep within the planet Mars is not dead, unlike the dragon whose demise enabled Homo sapiens to dominate Earth. He establishes a kind of relationship with the dragon, which future volumes of the sequence are expected to deepen. [JC]
Scott Reintgen
born Pennsylvania
works (selected)
series
The Nyxia Triad
- Nyxia (New York: Crown Books for Young Readers, 2017) [The Nyxia Triad: hb/Heiko Klug]
- Nyxia Unleashed (New York: Crown Books for Young Readers, 2018) [The Nyxia Triad: hb/Heiko Klug]
- Nyxia Rising (New York: Crown Books for Young Readers, 2019) [The Nyxia Triad: hb/Heiko Klug]
Waxways
- A Door in the Dark (New York: Margaret K McElderry Books, 2023) [Waxways: hb/Bose Collins]
- A Whisper in the Walls (New York: Margaret K McElderry Books, 2024) [Waxways: hb/Bose Collins]
- A Burning in the Bones (New York: Margaret K McElderry Books, 2025) [Waxways: hb/Bose Collins]
The Dragonships
- The Last Dragon on Mars (New York: Aladdin, 2024) [The Dragonships: hb/]
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