Smith, James Robert
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1957- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Things Not Seen" in 2 AM for Spring 1987, most of his short work being horror. His first novel, The Flock (2006), is a very Near Future action-heavy tale featuring the eponymous civilization of highly intelligent prehistoric birds, whose survival into the present in the backwoods of inland Florida has been made possible by its enormous care not to arouse the attention of its most feared predator, Homo sapiens. But the environmental destruction of Florida (see Climate Change; Ecology; Overpopulation; Pollution) has rendered the birds' continued survival unlikely. Smith's later novels – The Living End (2011) and The New Ecology of Death (2013) – are Zombie apocalypse tales. Evermore (anth 2006) with Stephen Mark Rainey is an Original Anthology on themes suggested by the work of Edgar Allan Poe. [JC]
James Robert Smith
born Georgia: 28 June 1957
works
- The Flock (Waterville, Maine: Five Star, 2006) [hb/]
- The Living End (Tasmania, Australia: The Severed Press, 2011) [pb/Tjie Tsang]
- The New Ecology of Death (Tasmania, Australia: The Severed Press, 2013) [pb/]
collections
- A Confederacy of Horrors (New York: Hippocampus Press, 2015) [coll: pb/Pete Von Sholly]
works as editor
- Evermore (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 2006) with Stephen Mark Rainey [anth: Edgar Allan Poe: hb/Tony Patrick]
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