| Allen
Steele became a full-time science fiction writer in 1988, following
publication of his first short story, "Live From The Mars Hotel"
(Asimov’s, mid-Dec. ‘88). Since then he has become a prolific author of
novels, short stories, and essays, with his work appearing in England,
France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Russia, the Czech Republic,
Poland, and Japan. Steele was
born in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his B. A. in Communications
from New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire and his M. A. in
Journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
Before turning to SF, he worked as a staff writer for daily and weekly
newspapers in Tennessee, Missouri, and Massachusetts, freelanced for
business and general-interest magazines in the Northeast, and spent a
short tenure as a Washington correspondent, covering politics on
Capitol Hill. His novels
include Orbital Decay, Clarke County, Space, Lunar Descent, Labyrinth
of Night, The Jericho Iteration, The Tranquillity Alternative, and A
King of Infinite Space. He has also published two collections of short
fiction, Rude Astronauts and All-American Alien Boy. His work has
appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog, Fantasy & Science
Fiction, Omni, Science Fiction Age, Absolute Magnitude, Journal Wired,
Pirate Writings, and The New York Review of Science Fiction, as well as
in many anthologies. His
novella "The Death Of Captain Future" (Asimov’s, Oct. ’95) received the
1996 Hugo Award for Best Novella and the 1996 Science Fiction Weekly
Reader Appreciation Award. It was also nominated for a 1997 Nebula
Award and for a Shieun Award (Japan). His novelette "The Good Rat"
(Analog, mid-Dec. ‘95) was nominated for a Hugo in 1996. Orbital Decay
received the 1990 Locus Award for Best First Novel, and Clarke County,
Space was nominated for the 1991 Phillip K. Dick Award. Steele was
First Runner-Up for the 1990 John W. Campbell Award, and received the
Donald A. Wollheim Award in 1993. His
novella "...Where Angels Fear to Tread" (Asimov’s, Oct./Nov. ‘97) won
the 1998 Hugo, Locus, and the Asimov’s Readers Award for Best Novella.
It was also nominated for the Nebula, and was First Runner-Up for the
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial award. Steele
lives in western Massachusetts with his wife Linda and their three
dogs. He serves on the Board of Advisors for the Space Frontier
Foundation, and collects vintage SF books and magazines. |
