Vance, Steve
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of US author Steven Edward Vance (1952- ), who has since the late 1980s focused largely on horror novels, though he began writing with some unremarkable but competently conceived sf adventures, including Planet of the Gawfs (1977), a Planetary Romance intended to be comic; All the Shattered Worlds (1980), a Space Opera; and The Hybrid (1981), an Apes as Human/Mutant tale. Later novels include The Hyde Effect (1986); The Asgard Run (1990), about a shipwrecked crew of Alien scientists encountered in the mountains of Wyoming; and Identity (2001), in which a serial killer is so radically re-created by plastic surgery that his Identity is forever untraceable. [JC]
Steve Vance
born Brunswick, Georgia: 13 July 1952
works (selected)
- Planet of the Gawfs (New York: Leisure Books, 1977) [pb/Marcus Boas]
- All the Shattered Worlds (New York: Manor Books, 1979) [pb/Bruce Pennington]
- The Hybrid (New York: Tower Books, 1981) [pb/]
- The Hyde Effect (New York: Leisure Books, 1986) [pb/]
- The Abyss (New York: Leisure Books, 1989) [pb/]
- The Asgard Run (New York: Leisure Books, 1990) [pb/]
- Spook (New York: Soho Press, 1990) [hb/Jeffrey Murphy]
- Shapes (New York: Leisure Books, 1991) [pb/]
- The Price of Darkness: A Shane King Mystery Thriller (publisher not established, 1996) [pb/]
- Identity (New York: Leisure Books, 2001) [pb/]
- The Time Fount Project (Holliston, Massachusetts: Silver Leaf Books, 2015) with Randy Vance and Ron Banniser [ebook: na/]
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