Scott Baker (writer)

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Scott MacMartin Baker (born September 29, 1947, in Oak Park, Illinois)[1] is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer.

His first novel, Symbiote's Crown, is "a slyly intelligent though uneasily metaphysical Space Opera" according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.[1] The French edition won a Prix Apollo Award in 1982.[2] In addition, he won the World Fantasy Award in 1984 for his short story "Still Life with Scorpion".[3]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Symbiote's Crown (1978) [Prix Apollo Winner][4] ISBN 978-0425038390
  • Nightchild (1979) ISBN 0671469312
  • Dhampire (1982) ISBN 0671446665
  • Drink the Fire from the Flames (1987) (Ashlu) ISBN 0812531477
  • Firedance (1986) (Ashlu) ISBN 0812531450
  • Webs (1989) ISBN 0812515587
  • Ancestral Hungers (1996) ISBN 031285868X

Short story collections (in French only)

  • Nouvelle recette pour canard au sang (1983)
  • Fringales (1985)
  • Aléas (1985)

Short stories (in English)

  • Flatsquid Thrills (1982)
  • The Path (1982)
  • The Lurking Duck (1983) (World Fantasy nominee[5])
  • Still Life with Scorpion (1984) (World Fantasy winner[6])
  • Sea Change (1986) (Locus Awards nominee[7])
  • Nesting Instinct (1987) (World Fantasy nominee[8])
  • The Sins of the Fathers (1988)
  • Varicose Worms (1989) (World Fantasy nominee,[9] Locus Awards nominee[10])
  • Alimentary Tract (1990)
  • The Jamesburg Incubus (1990)
  • Virus Dreams (1993)
  • Prospero (1993)
  • Full Fathom Deep (1995)
  • Feral Frolics (2014)

Anthologies (in French only)

  • Ombres portées (1990)

References

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