von Gunden, Kenneth
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1946- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Scrapings" in Ascents of Wonder (anth 1977) edited by David Gerrold, but whose first book of sf interest was nonfiction: Twenty All-Time Great SF Films (1982) with Stuart H Stock. He began publishing sf novels with StarSpawn (1990), which interestingly introduces an ethically advanced Hive-Mind race of interstellar explorers into medieval England, though an associated species escapes their ship and causes some havoc. The K-9 Corps sequence beginning with K-9 Corps (1991) and ending with K-9 Corps #4: The Last Resort (1993) confronts a team of Genetically Engineered super-dogs – who rather resemble the wolves in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books sequence, not least in their ability to talk – with challenges on alien planets. The Galen Yeager sequence, comprising The Sounding Stillness (1993) and The Pale Companion (1994), carries a secret agent and his Cyborg sidekick into intrigues also involving Genetic Engineering and also set into a Space Opera context. [JC]
Kenneth Ray von Gunden
born Bellefonte, Pennsylvania: 9 February 1946
works
series
K-9 Corps
- K-9 Corps (New York: Ace Books, 1991) [K-9 Corps: pb/Jim Thiesen]
- K-9 Corps #2: Under Fire (New York: Ace Books, 1991) [K-9 Corps: pb/Jim Thiesen]
- K-9 Corps #3: Cry Wolf (New York: Ace Books, 1992) [K-9 Corps: pb/Jim Thiesen]
- K-9 Corps #3: The Last Resort (New York: Ace Books, 1993) [K-9 Corps: pb/Cliff Miller]
Galen Yeager
- The Sounding Stillness (New York: Ace Books, 1993) [Galen Yeager: pb/Dave Dorman]
- The Pale Companion (New York: Ace Books, 1994) [Galen Yeager: pb/Dave Dorman]
individual titles
- StarSpawn (New York: Ace Books, 1990) [pb/Mark Ferran]
nonfiction
- Twenty All-Time Great SF Films (Westport, Connecticut: Arlington House, 1982) with Stuart H Stock [nonfiction: hb/]
- Flights of Fancy: The Great Fantasy Films (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co, 1989) [nonfiction: hb/]
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