Michael P. Kube-McDowell

Michael Paul Kube-McDowell (born August 29, 1954, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a science fiction 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. He was honored for teaching excellence by the 1985 White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. Kube-McDowell's short fiction has been featured in Analog, 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.

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

• Emprise (1985)
• Enigma (1986)
• Empery (1987)

Star Wars : The Black Fleet Crisis

• Before the Storm (1996)
• Shield of Lies (1996)
• Tyrant's Test (1996)

Novels

• Alternities (1988) (see review [1])
• The Quiet Pools (1990)
• Exile (1992)
• The Trigger (1999) (with Arthur C. Clarke)
• Vectors (2002)

Young Adult Novels

• Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Odyssey (1987)
• Thieves of Light (1987) (writing as Michael Hudson)

Selected short stories

• "The Inevitable Conclusion," Amazing Stories (August 1979) [first professional publication]
• "Slac//," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (August 1981)
• "Slippage," Twilight Zone Magazine (August 1982)
• "Murphy's Planet," Analog (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]
• "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 ed. (1982)
• Aliens and Outworlders, Shawna McCarthy ed. (1983)
• The Year's Best Horror Stories XI, Karl Edward Wagner ed. (1983)
• Alien Stars II: After the Flames, Elizabeth Mitchell ed. (1985)
• Alternate Presidents, Mike Resnick ed. (1992)
• Alternate Kennedys, Mike Resnick ed. (1992)
• Alternate Warriors, Mike Resnick ed. (1993)

Awards

• Hugo Best Novel nominee (1991) : The Quiet Pools
• Philip K. Dick nominee (1985) : Emprise

External links

• Official site
• Michael P. Kube-McDowell at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Review of Alternities

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