Allen Steele
Allen Mulherin Steele, Jr. is an American journalist and science fiction author.
Background
Steele was born in Nashville, Tennessee on January 19, 1958. Steele was introduced to science fiction fandom attending meetings of Nashville's science fiction club. He graduated high school from the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, received a bachelor's degree from New England College and a Master's from the University of Missouri.Writing
Before he established himself as a science fiction author, he spent several years working as a journalist. Steele began publishing short stories in 1988. His early novels formed a future history beginning with Orbital Decay and continuing through Labyrinth of Night. Some of his early novels such as Orbital Decay and Lunar Descent were about blue-collar workers working on future construction projects in space. Since 1992, he has tended to focus on stand-alone projects and short stories, although he has written five novels about the moon Coyote.Steele serves on the Board of Advisors for both the Space Frontier Foundation and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and he is a former member of the SFWA Board of Directors. In April 2001, he testified before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the U.S. House of Representatives, in hearings regarding space exploration in the 21st century.
In 2004, he contributed a chapter to the collaborative hoax novel, Atlanta Nights.
Awards
Allen Steele received several awards for his writing:- 1990: Locus Award for Orbital Decay
- 1996: Hugo Award for "The Death of Captain Future"
- 1997: Locus Award for ""... Where Angels Fear to Tread""
- 1997: Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Award for ""... Where Angels Fear to Tread""
- 1998: Hugo Award for ""... Where Angels Fear to Tread""
- 1998: Seiun Award for "The Death of Captain Future"
- 2002: Asimov's Readers' Award for "Stealing Alabama"
- 2005: Asimov's Readers' Award for "The Garcia Narrows Bridge"
- 2011: Hugo Award for "The Emperor of Mars"
- 2013: Seiun Award for "The Emperor of Mars"
- 2013: Robert A. Heinlein Award
- 2014: Asimov's Readers' Award for "The Legion of Tomorrow"
Novels
- The Tranquillity Alternative
- Oceanspace
- Chronospace Re-released for Kindle under the Author's preferred title, Time Loves a Hero
- Apollo's Outcasts
- V-S Day
- Arkwright
- Orbital Decay
- Clarke County, Space
- Lunar Descent
- Labyrinth of Night
- A King of Infinite Space
- Coyote Trilogy
- * Coyote: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration
- * Coyote Rising: A Novel of Interstellar Revolution
- * Coyote Frontier: A Novel of Interstellar Colonization
- Coyote Chronicles
- * Coyote Horizon
- * Coyote Destiny
- Coyote Universe
- * Spindrift
- * Galaxy Blues
- * Hex
- Avengers of the Moon
- The Return of Ul Quorn, Book I: Captain Future in Love
- The Return of Ul Quorn, Book II: The Guns of Pluto (2020
Chapbooks
- The Weight
- The Days Between
- The River Horses
- Angel of Europa
Short fiction
- Rude Astronauts
- All-American Alien Boy
- Sex and Violence in Zero-G: The Complete Near-Space Stories
- American Beauty
- The Last Science Fiction Writer
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
| John Harper Wilson | 1989 | ||
| "" | 1991 | Asimov's Science Fiction, July 1991 | |
| "Riders in the Sky" | 1994 | Alternate Outlaws edited by Mike Resnick | - |
| "The Death of Captain Future" | 1995 | Asimov's Science Fiction, October 1995 | |
| ""... Where Angels Fear to Tread"" | 1997 | ||
| "The Emperor of Mars" | 2010 | Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2010 | |
| "Sixteen Million Leagues from Versailles" | 2013 | ||
| "Martian Blood" | 2013 | ||
| The Legion of Tomorrow | 2014 | ||
| "Frogheads" | 2015 | - | |
| "Starship Mountain" | 2018 | ||
| "The Lost Testament" | 2019 |