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Michael Paul Kube-McDowell (born August 29, 1954, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population city in the United States. It is the fifth-largest metropolitan area and fourth-largest urban area by population in the United States, the nation's fourth-largest consumer media market as ranked by the Nielsen Media Research, and the 49th-most...
) is a science fiction
Science fiction

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
 novelist. He has also dabbled in music, written for television, been a stringer for a daily newspaper, and published short fiction, reviews, assorted nonfiction and erotica
Erotica

Erotica or "curiosa," works of art, including erotic literature, photography, film, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with eroticism sexual stimulation or sexual arousal descriptions....
. He was honored for teaching excellence by the 1985 White House
White House

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian architecture and has been the executive residence of every U.S....
 Commission on Presidential Scholars. Kube-McDowell's short fiction has been featured in Analog
Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an United States science fiction magazine. As of 2007, it is the longest continually published magazine of that genre....
, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, as well as anthologies After the Flames and Perpetual Light.






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Michael Paul Kube-McDowell (born August 29, 1954, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population city in the United States. It is the fifth-largest metropolitan area and fourth-largest urban area by population in the United States, the nation's fourth-largest consumer media market as ranked by the Nielsen Media Research, and the 49th-most...
) is a science fiction
Science fiction

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
 novelist. He has also dabbled in music, written for television, been a stringer for a daily newspaper, and published short fiction, reviews, assorted nonfiction and erotica
Erotica

Erotica or "curiosa," works of art, including erotic literature, photography, film, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with eroticism sexual stimulation or sexual arousal descriptions....
. He was honored for teaching excellence by the 1985 White House
White House

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian architecture and has been the executive residence of every U.S....
 Commission on Presidential Scholars. Kube-McDowell's short fiction has been featured in Analog
Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an United States science fiction magazine. As of 2007, it is the longest continually published magazine of that genre....
, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, as well as anthologies After the Flames and Perpetual Light. Three of his stories have been adapted as episodes of the TV series Tales from the Darkside
Tales from the Darkside

Tales from the Darkside is an anthology series TV series from the 1980s produced by George A. Romero. Similar to The Twilight Zone , Night Gallery, The Outer Limits, and Tales from the Crypt , each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist....
.

Outside of science fiction Kube-McDowell is the author of more than 500 nonfiction articles on subjects ranging from space careers to "scientific creationism" to an award-winning four-part series on the state of American education.

Bibliography


Series


The Trigon Disunity
The Trigon Disunity

The Trigon Disunity is a series of three books written by science fiction author Michael P. Kube-McDowell. Emprise was a Philip K. Dick Award nominee....
  • Emprise (1985)
  • Enigma (1986)
  • Empery (1987)


Star Wars
Star Wars

Star Wars is an epic film space opera Media franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels....
 : The Black Fleet Crisis
The Black Fleet Crisis

The Black Fleet Crisis is a trilogy set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe . The books take place 16 years after Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope....
  • Before the Storm
    Before the Storm

    Star Wars: Black Fleet Crisis #1: Before The Storm is the first in book in The Black Fleet Crisis trilogy and is set in the fictional Star Wars universe....
     (1996)
  • Shield of Lies
    Shield of Lies

    Star Wars: Black Fleet Crisis #2: Shield of Lies is the second novel in The Black Fleet Crisis trilogy and is set in the fictional Star Wars universe....
     (1996)
  • Tyrant's Test
    Tyrant's Test

    Star Wars: Black Fleet Crisis #3: Tyrant's Test is the third book in The Black Fleet Crisis trilogy and is set in the fictional Star Wars universe....
     (1996)


Novels


  • Alternities (1988) (see review )
  • The Quiet Pools (1990)
  • Exile (1992)
  • The Trigger (1999) (with Arthur C. Clarke
    Arthur C. Clarke

    Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, Order of the British Empire was a British people science fiction author, inventor, and Futurology, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey , written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which also produced the 2001: A Space Odyssey ; and as a host and comment...
    )
  • Vectors (2002)


Young Adult Novels


  • Isaac Asimov's Robot City
    Isaac Asimov's Robot City

    Isaac Asimov's Robot City is a series of novels written by various authors and loosely connected to Isaac Asimov's Isaac Asimov's Robot Series. It takes place between The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire....
    :Odyssey     (1987)
  • Thieves of Light (1987) (writing as Michael Hudson)

Selected short stories


  • "The Inevitable Conclusion," Amazing Stories
    Amazing Stories

    Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction....
     (August 1979) [first professional publication]
  • "Slac//," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (August 1981)
  • "Slippage," Twilight Zone Magazine (August 1982)
  • "Murphy's Planet," Analog
    Analog Science Fiction and Fact

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an United States science fiction magazine. As of 2007, it is the longest continually published magazine of that genre....
     (July 1983)
  • "Menace," Analog (February 1984) [a Trigon Disunity story]
  • "When Winter Ends," Fantasy & Science Fiction (July 1985)
  • "Lifebomb," Analog (January 1985) [adapted for TV series Tales from the Darkside
    Tales from the Darkside

    Tales from the Darkside is an anthology series TV series from the 1980s produced by George A. Romero. Similar to The Twilight Zone , Night Gallery, The Outer Limits, and Tales from the Crypt , each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist....
    ]
  • "I Shall Have a Flight to Glory", 1992 (Alternate Presidents)


Anthologies containing stories by Michael P Kube-McDowell


  • The 1982 Annual World's Best SF, Donald Wollheim ed. (1982)
  • Perpetual Light, Alan Ryan
    Alan Ryan

    Alan James Ryan Fellow of the British Academy is Warden of New College, Oxford, and Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford. He was born 9 May 1940, and was educated at Christ's Hospital, Balliol College, Oxford, and University College, London....
     ed. (1982)
  • Aliens and Outworlders, Shawna McCarthy
    Shawna McCarthy

    Shawna Lee McCarthy is an United States science fiction and fantasy editor and literary agent. She is married to List of science fiction visual artists Wayne Douglas Barlowe....
     ed. (1983)
  • The Year's Best Horror Stories XI, Karl Edward Wagner
    Karl Edward Wagner

    Karl Edward Wagner was an United States writer, editor and publisher of Horror fiction, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist....
     ed. (1983)
  • Alien Stars II: After the Flames, Elizabeth Mitchell ed. (1985)
  • Alternate Presidents, Mike Resnick
    Mike Resnick

    Michael "Mike" Diamond Resnick , better known by his published name Mike Resnick, is a popular and prolific United States science fiction author....
     ed. (1992)
  • Alternate Kennedys, Mike Resnick ed. (1992)
  • Alternate Warriors, Mike Resnick ed. (1993)


Awards


  • Hugo Best Novel
    Hugo Award for Best Novel

    Winners of the Hugo Award for best science fiction or fantasy novel, along with all the nominees, are presented here. Awards given in one year are for works published during the previous calendar year....
     nominee (1991) : The Quiet Pools
  • Philip K. Dick nominee (1985) : Emprise


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