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'''Adam-Troy Castro''' is a science fiction, [[fantasy]], and [[Horror fiction|horror]] writer<ref>{{cite news|url=http://neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz/recenze-adam-troy-castro-vyslanci-mrtvych-fjm-/p_scifi.asp?c=A110215_235655_p_scifi_hpe|title=RECENZE: Adam-Troy Castro, Vyslanci mrtvých|date=February 15, 2011|work=Neviditelný pes|language=Czech|accessdate=June 29, 2012}}</ref> living in Palm Beach County, FL with his life partner Ian Goldberg.
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|name=Adam-Troy Castro
|occupation=Writer
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*[[Science fiction]]
*[[fantasy]]
*[[horror fiction]]
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|awards=[[Seiun Award]] (2007)<br>[[Philip K. Dick Award]] (2009)
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'''Adam-Troy Castro''' is an American science fiction, [[fantasy]], and [[Horror fiction|horror]] writer<ref>{{cite news|url=http://neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz/recenze-adam-troy-castro-vyslanci-mrtvych-fjm-/p_scifi.asp?c=A110215_235655_p_scifi_hpe|title=RECENZE: Adam-Troy Castro, Vyslanci mrtvých|date=February 15, 2011|work=Neviditelný pes|language=Czech|accessdate=June 29, 2012}}</ref> living in Wildwood, Florida.


He has more than one hundred stories to his credit and has been nominated for numerous awards, including the [[Hugo award|Hugo]], [[Nebula award|Nebula]], and [[Bram Stoker Award|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]]''.
He has almost two hundred stories to his credit and has been nominated for numerous awards, including the [[Hugo Award|Hugo]], [[Nebula Award|Nebula]], and [[Bram Stoker Award|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 and nominations ==
== Awards and nominations ==
Castro's fiction has been nominated for eight Nebulas, two Hugos, two Seiuns, and three Stokers.
Castro's fiction has been nominated for eight [[Nebula Award|Nebulas]], two [[Hugo Award|Hugos]], two Seiuns, the [[World Fantasy Award]], and three Stokers.


In 2007, Castro and [[Jerry Oltion]] won the [[Seiun Award]] for Best Foreign Language Short Story of the Year for "The Astronaut from Wyoming."
In 2007, Castro and [[Jerry Oltion]] won the [[Seiun Award]] for Best Foreign Language Short Story of the Year for "The Astronaut from Wyoming."
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In 2009, Castro won the [[Philip K. Dick Award]] for ''Emissaries from the Dead.''
In 2009, Castro won the [[Philip K. Dick Award]] for ''Emissaries from the Dead.''


“The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation” was nominated for the 2019 [[World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction|World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/world-fantasy-awards%e2%84%a0-2019/|title=World Fantasy Awards℠ 2019 {{!}} World Fantasy Convention|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-25}}</ref>
"The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation" was nominated for the 2019 [[World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction|World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/world-fantasy-awards%e2%84%a0-2019/|title=World Fantasy Awards 2019 {{!}} World Fantasy Convention|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-25}}</ref>


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
{{Incomplete list|date=February 2021}}


===Books===
===Books===
* ''Lost in Booth Nine: Silver Salamander'', 1993.
* ''Lost in Booth Nine: Silver Salamander'', 1993.
* ''X-Men and Spider-Man: Time's Arrow Book 2 The Present'', Berkely Boulevard,1998. With Tom DeFalco.
* ''X-Men and Spider-Man: Time's Arrow Book 2 The Present'', Berkley Boulevard, 1998. With Tom DeFalco.
* ''Spider-Man: The Gathering of the Sinister Six'', Berkeley Boulevard, 1999.
* ''Spider-Man: The Gathering of the Sinister Six'', Berkley Boulevard, 1999.
* ''An Alien Darkness'', Wildside Press, 2000.
* ''An Alien Darkness'', Wildside Press, 2000.
* ''A Desperate Decaying Darkness'', Wildside Press, 2000.
* ''A Desperate Decaying Darkness'', Wildside Press, 2000.
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* ''My Ox is Broken: Roadblocks, Detours, Fast Forwards, and Other Great Moments from TV's THE AMAZING RACE'' (non-fiction). Benbella Books, 2006.
* ''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.
* ''The Unauthorized Harry Potter'' (non-fiction). Borders Books, 2007.
* ''Emissaries From the Dead: An Andrea Cort Novel''. Harper Collins Eos, 2008.
* ''Emissaries from the Dead: An Andrea Cort Novel''. HarperCollins Eos, 2008.
* ''The Shallow End of the Pool''. Creeping Hemlock Press, 2008.
* ''The Shallow End of the Pool''. Creeping Hemlock Press, 2008.
* ''The Third Claw of God: An Andrea Cort Novel''. Harper Collins Eos, 2009.
* ''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.
* ''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.
* ''War of the Marionettes: An Andrea Cort Novel''. (German). Lubbe, 2010.
* ''Z is for Zombie''. With Johnny Atomic. Eos, 2011
* ''V is for Vampire''. With Johnny Atomic. Eos, 2011.
* ''V is for Vampire''. With Johnny Atomic. Eos, 2011.
* ''Gustav Gloom and The People Taker''. Grosset and Dunlap, 2012.
* ''Z is for Zombie''. With Johnny Atomic. Eos, 2011
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* ''Gustav Gloom and The Nightmare Vault''. Grossett and Dunlap, 2013
* ''Gustav Gloom and The Four Terrors''. Grossett and Dunlap, 2013.
* ''Gustav Gloom and the People Taker''. Grosset and Dunlap, 2012.
* ''Her Husband's Hands And Other Stories''. Prime Books, 2014.
* ''Gustav Gloom and the Nightmare Vault''. Grosset & Dunlap, 2013
* ''Gustav Gloom And The Cryptic Carousel''. Grossett and Dunlap, 2014.
* ''Gustav Gloom and the Four Terrors''. Grosset & Dunlap, 2013.
* ''Gustav Gloom And The Inn Of Shadows''. Grosset and Dunlap, 2015.
* ''Gustav Gloom and the Cryptic Carousel''. Grosset & Dunlap, 2014.
* ''Gustav Gloom And The Castle of Fear''. Grosset and Dunlap, 2016.
* ''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
* ''Her Husband's Hands and Other Stories''. Prime Books, 2014.
* ''The Author's Wife vs. The Giant Robot''. Comicmix LLC, 2022.


;Stories
=== Selected short fiction===
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*{{cite journal |title=Gunfight on Farside |journal=[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]] |volume=129 |issue=4 |date=April 2009}}
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*{{cite journal |title=Hiding Place |journal=[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]] |date=April 2011 }}
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*{{cite journal |title=Unseen Daemons |journal=[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]] |date=Jul–Aug 2002 }}
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*{{cite journal |title=With Unclean Hands |journal=[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]] |date=November 2011 }}
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* "[[Arvies]]'" (''[[Lightspeed Magazine]]'')
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* "[[Her Husband's Hands]]" (Lightspeed, October 2011)
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|"Unseen Daemons"
|{{cite journal |author=Castro, Adam-Troy |title=Unseen Daemons |journal=[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]] |date=Jul–Aug 2002|author-mask=2}}
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! rowspan="2" |2009
|"Among the Tchi"
|{{cite journal |author=Castro, Adam-Troy |author-mask=2 |date=May 2009 |title=Among the Tchi |journal=[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]] |volume=129 |issue=5}}
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|"Gunfight on Farside"
|{{cite journal |title=Gunfight on Farside |journal=[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]] |volume=129 |issue=4 |last=Castro |first=Adam-Troy |author-mask=2 |date=April 2009}}
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!2010
|"[[Arvies]]"
|{{cite journal |title=Arvies |journal=[[Lightspeed Magazine|Lightspeed]] |volume= |issue=3 |last=Castro |first=Adam-Troy |author-mask=2 |date=Aug 2010}}
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! rowspan="3" |2011
|"Hiding Place"
|{{cite journal |title=Hiding Place |journal=[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]] |last=Adam-Troy |first=Castro |author-mask=2 |date=April 2011}}
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|"[[Her Husband's Hands]]"
|{{cite journal |title=Her Husband's Hands |journal=[[Lightspeed Magazine|Lightspeed]] |volume= |issue=17 |last=Castro |first=Adam-Troy |author-mask=2 |date=Oct 2011}}
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|"With Unclean Hands"
|{{cite journal |author=Castro, Adam-Troy |title=With Unclean Hands |journal=[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]] |author-mask=2 |date=November 2011}}
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! rowspan="3" |2015
|"Tasha's Fail-Safe"
|{{cite journal |author=Castro, Adam-Troy |author-mask=2 |date=March 2015 |title=Tasha's Fail-Safe |journal=[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]] |volume=135 |issue=3 |pages=8–24}}
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|"Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship ''Magnificent"''
|{{cite journal |author=Castro, Adam-Troy |date=April 2015 |title=Down Please |journal=[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]] |volume=135 |issue=4 |pages=69–75|author-mask=2}}
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|"Evangelist"
|{{cite journal |author=Castro, Adam-Troy |author-mask=2 |date=November 2015 |title=Evangelist |journal=[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]] |volume=135 |issue=11 |pages=64–71}}
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* "The Coward's Option". Analog. March 2016.
* "The Coward's Option". Analog. March 2016.


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==External links==
==External links==
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Latest revision as of 14:28, 16 June 2024

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 and nominations

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

In 2007, Castro and Jerry Oltion won the Seiun Award for Best Foreign Language Short Story of the Year for "The Astronaut from Wyoming."

In 2009, Castro won the Philip K. Dick Award for Emissaries from the Dead.

"The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation" was nominated for the 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction.[2]

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Lost in Booth Nine: Silver Salamander, 1993.
  • X-Men and Spider-Man: Time's Arrow Book 2 The Present, Berkley Boulevard, 1998. With Tom DeFalco.
  • Spider-Man: The Gathering of the Sinister Six, Berkley Boulevard, 1999.
  • An Alien Darkness, Wildside Press, 2000.
  • A Desperate Decaying Darkness, Wildside Press, 2000.
  • Spider-Man: The Revenge of the Sinister Six, Ibooks, 2001.
  • Spider-Man: The Secret of the Sinister Six, Ibooks, 2002.
  • Vossoff and Nimmitz: Just a Couple of Idiots Reupholstering Space and Time, Wildside Press 2002
  • Tangled Strings, Fivestar, 2003
  • With the Stars in their Eyes (collaborative collection with Jerry Oltion), Wildside Press, 2003
  • 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

[edit]
Collections
  • Her Husband's Hands and Other Stories. Prime Books, 2014.
  • The Author's Wife vs. The Giant Robot. Comicmix LLC, 2022.
Stories
Year Title First published Reprinted/collected Notes
1999 "The Astronaut From Wyoming" —— (July 1999). "The Astronaut From Wyoming". Analog.
2002 "Unseen Daemons" —— (July–August 2002). "Unseen Daemons". Analog.
2009 "Among the Tchi" —— (May 2009). "Among the Tchi". Analog. 129 (5).
"Gunfight on Farside" —— (April 2009). "Gunfight on Farside". Analog. 129 (4).
2010 "Arvies" —— (August 2010). "Arvies". Lightspeed (3).
2011 "Hiding Place" —— (April 2011). "Hiding Place". Analog.
"Her Husband's Hands" —— (October 2011). "Her Husband's Hands". Lightspeed (17).
"With Unclean Hands" —— (November 2011). "With Unclean Hands". Analog.
2015 "Tasha's Fail-Safe" —— (March 2015). "Tasha's Fail-Safe". Analog. 135 (3): 8–24.
"Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent" —— (April 2015). "Down Please". Analog. 135 (4): 69–75.
"Evangelist" —— (November 2015). "Evangelist". Analog. 135 (11): 64–71.
  • "The Coward's Option". Analog. March 2016.

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. ^ "World Fantasy Awards 2019 | World Fantasy Convention". Retrieved July 25, 2019.
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