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Adam-Troy Castro

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Adam-Troy Castro
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Genres
Notable awardsSeiun Award (2007)
Philip K. Dick Award (2009)
Website
www.adamtroycastro.com

Adam-Troy Castro is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer[1] living in Wildwood, Florida.

He has almost two hundred stories to his credit and has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Stoker. These stories include four Spider-Man novels, including the Sinister Six trilogy, and stories involving characters of Andrea Cort, Ernst Vossoff, and Karl Nimmitz. Castro is also known for his Gustav Gloom series of middle-school novels and has also authored a reference book on The Amazing Race.

Awards

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Castro's fiction has been nominated for eight Nebulas, two Hugos, two Seiuns, the World Fantasy Award, and three Stokers.

Awards for Adam-Troy Castro
The Last Robot 1993 Locus Award Short Story Nominated [2]
Baby Girl Diamond 1995 Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction Nominated
The Funeral March of the Marionettes 1998 Locus Award Novella Nominated
1998 Nebula Award Novella Nominated
1998 Hugo Award Novella Nominated
The Astronaut from Wyoming

(with Jerry Oltion)

2000 Locus Award Novella Nominated
1999 HOMer Award Novella Nominated [3]
1999 Analog Award Novella Won [4]
2000 Hugo Award Novella Nominated
2000 Nebula Award Novella Nominated
2007 Seiun Award Translated Short Story Won
Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's 2001 Analog Award Novella Won [5]
2002 Locus Award Novella Nominated
2003 Nebula Award Novella Nominated
Unseen Demons 2002 Analog Award Novella 3rd Place [6]
2003 Locus Award Novella Nominated
Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs 2004 Nebula Award Novelette Nominated
The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes 2004 Theodore Sturgeon Award - Finalist
2005 Nebula Award Novella Nominated
The Shallow End of the Pool 2008 Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction Nominated
Emissaries from the Dead 2008 Philip K. Dick Award - Won
2022 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Novel Nominated [7]
Gunfight on Farside 2009 Analog Award Novella 3rd Place [8]
2010 FantLab's Book of the Year Award Novella/Short Story Nominated
With Unclean Hands 2011 Analog Award Novella Won [9]
2012 Nebula Award Novella Nominated
2013 Seiun Award Translated Short Story Nominated
Hiding Place 2011 Analog Award Novella 4th Place
Arvies 2011 Million Writers Award - Won
2011 Nebula Award Short Story Nominated
War of the Marionettes 2011 Kurd Laßwitz Award Foreign Work Nominated [10]
Her Husband's Hands 2012 Nebula Award Short Story Nominated
2013 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories Nominated [11]
2014 Premio Ignotus Foreign Story Nominated
Sleeping Dogs 2015 Analog Award Novella 3rd Place [12]
Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent 2015 Analog Award Short Story 2nd Place
The Coward's Option 2016 Analog Award Novella Won [13]
The Soul Behind the Face 2016 Analog Award Novella 3rd Place
The Thing About Shapes to Come 2017 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories Nominated [14]
A Stab of the Knife 2018 Analog Award Novella 3rd Place [15]
Blurred Lives 2018 Analog Award Novella 4th Place
The Unnecessary Parts of the Story 2018 Analog Award Short Story Won
The Gorilla in a Tutu Principle or, Pecan Pie at Minnie and Earl's 2019 Analog Award Novella Won [16]
The Savannah Problem 2019 Analog Award Novella 2nd Place
The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation 2019 World Fantasy Award Short Fiction Nominated
Draiken Dies 2020 Analog Award Novella Won [17]
The Silence Before I Sleep 2021 Analog Award Novella 3rd Place [18]
The Last Science Fiction Story 2021 Analog Award Short Story 3rd Place
Burning the Ladder 2022 Analog Award Novella 2nd Place
A Tableau of Things That Are 2022 Eugie Award - Nominated
The Third Claw of God 2022 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Novel Nominated
Unfamiliar Gods 2023 Seiun Award Translated Short Story Nominated
To Fight the Colossus 2023 Analog Award Novella 4th Place [19]

Bibliography

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Books

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  • X-Men and Spider-Man: The Present, Berkley Boulevard, 1998 (with Tom DeFalco)
  • Spider-Man: The Gathering of the Sinister Six, Berkley Boulevard, 1999
  • Spider-Man: The Revenge of the Sinister Six, Ibooks, 2001
  • Spider-Man: The Secret of the Sinister Six, Ibooks, 2002
  • My Ox Is Broken: Roadblocks, Detours, Fast Forwards, and Other Great Moments from TV's THE AMAZING RACE (non-fiction). Benbella Books, 2006
  • The Unauthorized Harry Potter (non-fiction). Borders Books, 2007
  • Emissaries from the Dead: An Andrea Cort Novel. HarperCollins Eos, 2008
  • The Shallow End of the Pool. Creeping Hemlock Press, 2008
  • The Third Claw of God: An Andrea Cort Novel. HarperCollins Eos, 2009
  • Fake Alibis. By Frank Sibila, with Adam-Troy Castro and Caren Kennedy. BenBella, 2009
  • War of the Marionettes: An Andrea Cort Novel. (German). Lubbe, 2010
  • V Is for Vampire. With Johnny Atomic. Eos, 2011
  • Z Is for Zombie. With Johnny Atomic. Eos, 2011
  • Gustav Gloom and the People Taker. Grosset and Dunlap, 2012
  • Gustav Gloom and the Nightmare Vault. Grosset & Dunlap, 2013
  • Gustav Gloom and the Four Terrors. Grosset & Dunlap, 2013
  • Gustav Gloom and the Cryptic Carousel. Grosset & Dunlap, 2014
  • Gustav Gloom and the Inn of Shadows. Grosset and Dunlap, 2015
  • Gustav Gloom and the Castle of Fear. Grosset and Dunlap, 2016

Short fiction collections

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  • Lost in Booth Nine (1993)
  • A Desperate, Decaying Darkness (2000)
  • An Alien Darkness (2000)
  • Vossoff and Nimmitz: Just a Couple of Idiots Reupholstering Space and Time (2002)
  • With the Stars in their Eyes (with Jerry Oltion) (2003)
  • Tangled Strings (2003)
  • Her Husband's Hands and Other Stories (2014)
  • And Other Stories (2019)
  • The Author's Wife Vs. the Giant Robot and Other Stories (2022)
  • Minnie and Earl (2023)

Short stories

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(Uncollected)

  • Clearance to Land (1989)
  • Confusing Sequel to a Story You Haven't Read (1990)
  • Synchronicity (1992)
  • The House of Nails (1993)
  • The Telltale Head (1993)
  • Scars: A Romance in Seven Acts (1993)
  • Close (1993)
  • Death Rents a Video (1994)
  • Jesus Used a Paperclip (1994)
  • Razorface Did That! (1994)
  • The Slow Hit (1994)
  • Crucifixon (1995)
  • Ragz (1995)
  • The Good, the Bad, the Danged (1995)
  • The Hand Inside (1995)
  • Vend-A-Witch (1995)
  • Family Album (1996)
  • The Way Things Ought to Be (1996)
  • What Happened Next (1997)
  • Crisis on Ward H! (1998)
  • Suds (1998)
  • The Death of Love (1998)
  • The Second Time Around (1998)
  • The Well (1998)
  • Vocabulary (1998)
  • Windshield (1998)
  • The Astronaut from Wyoming (1999) (with Jerry Oltion)
  • The Adventure of the Garrulous Codger (2003)
  • Fantasy Room (2004)
  • Good for the Soul (2005)
  • After the Protocols (2006)
  • The Night of the Living POTUS (2008)
  • After the Ice (2008)
  • Among the Tchi (2009)
  • The Anteroom (2010)
  • During the Pause (2012)
  • Another Friendly Day in the Antique Trade (2014)
  • The Thing About Shapes to Come (2014)
  • The Totals (2014)
  • Hide and Shriek (2014)
  • In the Temple of Celestial Pleasures (2014)
  • Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent (2015)
  • Framing Mortensen (2016)
  • Death Every Seventy-Two Minutes (2017)
  • Shakesville (2017) (with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
  • Unfamiliar Gods (2017) (with Judi B. Castro)
  • Q & A (2017)
  • James, in the Golden Sunlight of the Hereafter (2017)
  • A Touch of Heart (2017) (with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
  • The Mouth of the Oyster (2017) (with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
  • The Streets of Babel (2018)
  • Pitcher Plant (2018)
  • The Unnecessary Parts of the Story (2018)
  • The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation (2018)
  • Example (2019)
  • The Minor Superhero, at Home after His Series Ends (2019)
  • Sand Castles (2019)
  • On an Old Man's Contemplation of an Archway Sealed with Stones (2019)
  • Genesis for Dyslexics (2019)
  • Sacrid's Pod (2019)
  • Dollhouse (2019)
  • Eros Pratfalled, Or, Adrift in the Cosmos with Lasagna and Mary Steenburgen (2019)
  • Fortune's Final Hand (2020)
  • Today's Question of the Day in Waverly, Ohio (2020)
  • Many Happy Returns (2020)
  • Decorating with Luke (2020)
  • The Time Traveler's Advice to the Lovelorn (2020)
  • The End of the World Measured in Values of N (2020)
  • The Monkey Trap (2020)
  • The Wallpaper Out of Space (2020)
  • Answering the Questions You Might Have About the Kharbat (2021)
  • Rotten Little Town: An Oral History (Abridged) (2021)
  • The Last Science Fiction Story (2021)
  • And Now, a Preview of Coming Attractions (2021)
  • A Tableau of Things That Are (2021)
  • Judi (2021)
  • The Silence Before I Sleep (2021)
  • Glimpses in Amber (2021)
  • Ten Scenes from a Typical Day in the Life of the All-Powerful Despot (2021)
  • Fairy Tale (2021)
  • Orientation (2022)
  • The Last Act at the Time Cabaret (2022)
  • Cards on the Table (2022)
  • My Future Self, Refused (2022)
  • The Arm Ouroboros (2022)
  • One Wild Night (2022)
  • The Conflagration at the Museum of You (2022)
  • With the Wheeze of a Glass Sentence (2022)
  • The Day the Earthman Didn't Show (2023)
  • An Inconvenient Man (2023)
  • Spaceman Jones (2023)
  • To Fight the Colossus (2023)
  • Five Things That Go Through Your Mind After the Masked Killer Decapitates You with an Axe and Your Still-Living Head Has a Few Seconds of Consciousness Left to Gaze at Your Twitching Body (2023)
  • Seed (2023)
  • Farewell to Faust (2024)
  • Gab (2024)
  • The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics (2024)
  • The Terrible Secret of the Immortal Bards (2024)
  • Minnie and Earl Have a Kitten (2024)
  • Amelia's Story (2024)
  • What We Plan to Do with You (2024)
  • Message in a Babel (2025)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "RECENZE: Adam-Troy Castro, Vyslanci mrtvých". Neviditelný pes (in Czech). February 15, 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
  2. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards
  3. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?22+1999
  4. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+1999
  5. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2001
  6. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2002
  7. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2022
  8. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2009
  9. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2011
  10. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+2011
  11. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2013
  12. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2015
  13. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2016
  14. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2017
  15. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2018
  16. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2019
  17. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2020
  18. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2021
  19. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2023
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