Van Allen Plexico

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name = Van Allen Plexico


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birthdate = Birth date and age|1968|1|12|mf=y
birthplace = Sylacauga, Alabama
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occupation = Writer/Editor and Educator
nationality = American
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genre = Science fiction, Fantasy, Pulp Adventure, Comics Commentary
subject = History, Political Science
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influences = Roger Zelazny, Jim Starlin
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website = http://www.plexico.net

Van Allen Plexico (born January 12, 1968) is an American professor of Political Science and History and a science fiction and fantasy author.

Biography

Born in Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, Van Allen Plexico graduated from Auburn University with Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in 1990 and 1994, doing additional graduate work at Georgetown University and at Emory University. From 1995 through 2006 he lived and worked in the Atlanta, Georgia metro area. In 2006 he became Assistant Professor of Political Science and History at Southwestern Illinois College, near St. Louis, Missouri.

Career

Plexico has lectured, written, and spoken professionally on space science, alternate history, and the historical roots of contemporary comic books and science fiction literature. He has been published in print and online in the areas of book, television, film, and comics criticism and commentary (often by [http://www.revolutionsf.com "RevolutionSF.com"] ), and has moderated discussion panels and emceed trivia tournaments at science fiction conventions around the US, beginning in 1998.

He is the author of the [http://www.whiterocketbooks.com/sentinels/ "Sentinels"] series of superhero/pulp adventure novels and stories, published (as of May 2008) by [http://www.swarmpress.com Swarm Press] . Artist Chris Kohler provided the interior illustrations for the new Swarm Press editions. The first three of these novels were originally published by [http://www.whiterocketbooks.com White Rocket Books] . "Sentinels" short stories are being published in [http://www.thousand-faces.com "A Thousand Faces"] magazine.

Plexico's classic pulp revival novels and novellas are being published by Airship 27 Productions and [http://www.adamantentertainment.com Adamant Entertainment] , beginning with "Conspiracy of Terror" in "Thrilling Tales" #1. He also serves as an editor for [http://www.whiterocketbooks.com White Rocket Books] .

An inductee of the "Heroes Magazine" Hall of Fame, he is founder and executive editor of the Avengers-related comic book archives and reference site, [http://www.avengersassemble.net "AvengersAssemble"] . He has also contributed to the [http://www.wizarduniverse.com "Wizard Magazine"] archives and was chosen by the "Rittenhouse Archives" to write the text for their commemorative [http://www.scifihobby.com/products/displaysetdetails.cfm?SetID=141 "The Complete Avengers, 1963-Present"] trading card set. In 2007 he edited [http://www.whiterocketbooks.com/index_assembled.htm "ASSEMBLED!"] , a critically acclaimed collection of essays analyzing and commenting upon Marvel's Avengers comics, with profits going to the [http://www.actorcomicfund.org "HERO Initiative"] .

Talk about some balls, who writes a wikipedia bio about himself?!?!

Bibliography

* "Sentinels: When Strikes the Warlord" (WRB edition, 2006; Swarm Press edition, 2008), ISBN 1-934861-06-5

* "Sentinels: A Distant Star" (WRB edition, 2007; Swarm Press edition, 2008), ISBN 1-934861-07-3

* "Sentinels: Apocalypse Rising" (WRB edition, 2007; Swarm Press edition, 2008), ISBN 1-934861-08-1

* "Assembled! Five Decades of Earth’s Mightiest" (Editor, 2007), ISBN 978-0-6151-5444-2

* "Sentinels: Widescreen Special Edition" (2007)

* [http://www.thousand-faces.com/sent.htm "The Spearhead of Invasion"] in " [http://www.thousand-faces.com A Thousand Faces magazine] ", issue 3 (2008)

* "Conspiracy of Terror" (A Griffon novella) in " [http://www.thrillingtales.net Thrilling Tales magazine] ", issue 1 (2008), and in "Double Danger Tales" anthology (forthcoming, 2008)

* "Mars McCoy and the Chaos Horde" (forthcoming, 2008)

* "Assembled! 2" (Editor, forthcoming, 2008)

External links

* [http://www.plexico.net Official Web site]
* [http://www.whiterocketbooks.com WhiteRocketBooks]
* [http://www.avengersassemble.net The AvengersAssemble! Web site]
* [http://www.adamantentertainment.com Adamant Entertainment]
* [http://www.thousand-faces.com A Thousand Faces magazine]
* [http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/features/119095365213070.htm Silver Bullet Comics interview about "Assembled"!]
* [http://www.comicbitsonline.com/2007/11/11/ric-croxton-talks-to-van-allen-plexico/ ComicBitsOnline interview about the Sentinels books]
* [http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=007280 Comicon PULSE interview about the Sentinels books]