David Herter

David Herter is an American author. His first novel was Ceres Storm in 2000, which was chosen as one of the top 10 science fiction books of 2000 by Amazon.com, followed by Evening's Empire in 2002.^[1][2][3]

On the Overgrown Path, a novella about the Czech composer Leoš Janáček, was published in 2006 by P.S. Publishing, with an introduction by John Clute; a sequel, The Luminous Depths, featuring the writer Karel Čapek and the composer Pavel Haas, with an introduction by Stephen Baxter, was released in 2008. One Who Disappeared, forthcoming in 2010, completes the trilogy.

October Dark, published in 2010, is a fantasia on Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. It tells a secret history of the fantastic film, centering on special-effects wizard Willis O'Brien's 1931 encounter with a magician whose career stretches back to the birth of the phantasmagoria in Post-Revolutionary France.

Herter lives in Seattle, Washington, where he attended the Clarion West writing workshop.

Bibliography

Novels and novellas

• Ceres Storm (2000)
• Evening's Empire (2002)
• October Dark(Earthling Publications, 2010)

"Czech" trilogy

• On the Overgrown Path (PS Publishing, 2002)
• The Luminous Depths (PS Publishing, 2008)
• One Who Disappeared (PS Publishing, 2010)

Short story

"Black and Green and Gold"

• Featured in Postrscripts 3 edited by Peter Crowther (PS Publishing, 2005)
• Also featured in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: The Year's Best Terror Tales edited by Stephen Jones (Running Press, 2006) ISBN 0-786-71833-1

References and links

1. ^ Cassada, Jackie. "Ceres Storm (Book Review)." Library Journal 125.19 (15 Nov. 2000): 100.
2. ^ "CERES STORM (Book Review)." Publishers Weekly 247, no. 44 (October 30, 2000): 52.
3. ^ Sallis, James. "BOOKS." Fantasy & Science Fiction 101.2 (Aug. 2001): 43.

• David Herter's blog

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