Rory Harper
Rory Harper is an American science fiction writer and community activist living in College Station, Texas.Life and career
He was born in Beaumont, Texas, and attended the University of Houston but did not graduate. He was one of the founders of Houston's Inlet Drug Crisis Center, where he worked with harm reduction pioneer David F. Duncan.
He has published science fiction and horror short stories in many science fiction magazines, some of which have been anthologized. His one novel, Petrogypsies was published by Baen Books in 1989 and has since become a cult novel in and around the Texas oilfields. DarkStar Books released a new, partially illustrated trade paperback edition of Petrogypsies in December 2009, and plans to continue the series with two more volumes in 2010 and 2011.
Harper is one of a group of regular contributors to the Eat Our Brains blog.Novels
- Petrogypsies]
- Psycho-Stars
- M-M-Magic
- Duty to the Empire
- Petrogypsies
- Regeneration
- Snorkeling in The River Lethe
- Triage
- Monsters, Tearing off My Face
- God's Bullets
- Do Me Good
- Leonardo's Hands, with Steven Gould
- Therapeutic Intervention
