Allen Steele

This article is about the writer. For the actor, see Allan Steele.

Allen M. Steele
Allen Steele (2006)
Born	Allen Mulherin Steele, Jr. (1958-01-19) January 19, 1958 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Occupation	Novelist, short story author, essayist, journalist
Genre	Science fiction
Notable works	Coyote

Allen Mulherin Steele, Jr. (born January 19, 1958) is an American journalist and science fiction author.

Background

Steele was born in Nashville, Tennessee on January 19, 1958. Steele was introduced to science fiction fandom attending meetings of Nashville's science fiction club. He graduated high school from the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, received a bachelor's degree from New England College and a Master's from the University of Missouri.

Writing

Before he established himself as a science fiction author, he spent several years working as a journalist. Steele began publishing short stories in 1988. His early novels formed a future history beginning with Orbital Decay and continuing through Labyrinth of Night. Some of his early novels such as Orbital Decay and Lunar Descent were about blue-collar workers working on future construction projects in space. Since 1992, he has tended to focus on stand-alone projects and short stories, although he has written five novels about the moon Coyote.

In 1996, his story "The Death of Captain Future" received the Hugo Award for Best Novella. He won the award again in 1998 for the story "...Where Angels Fear to Tread," and won the Hugo for best novelette in 2011 for "The Emperor of Mars."

Steele serves on the Board of Advisors for both the Space Frontier Foundation and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and he is a former member (Eastern Regional Director) of the SFWA Board of Directors. In April 2001, he testified before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the U.S. House of Representatives, in hearings regarding space exploration in the 21st century.

In 2004, he contributed a chapter to the collaborative hoax novel, Atlanta Nights.

Bibliography

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Fiction

Novels

• The Jericho Iteration (1994)
• The Tranquillity Alternative (1996)
• Oceanspace (2000)
• Chronospace (2001)
• Apollo's Outcasts (2012)
• V-S Day (2014)

Near-Space series

also called Rude Astronauts series

• Orbital Decay (1989)
• Clarke County, Space (1990)
• Lunar Descent (1991)
• Labyrinth of Night (1992)
• A King of Infinite Space (1997)

Coyote series

• Coyote Trilogy
  • Coyote: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration (2002)
  • Coyote Rising: A Novel of Interstellar Revolution (2004)
  • Coyote Frontier: A Novel of Interstellar Colonization (2005)
• Coyote Chronicles
  • Coyote Horizon (2009)
  • Coyote Destiny (2010)
• Coyote Universe
  • Spindrift (2007)
  • Galaxy Blues (2008)
  • Hex (2011)

Chapbooks

• The Weight (1995)
• The Days Between (2002)
• The River Horses (2007)
• Angel of Europa (2011)

Short fiction

Collections

• Rude Astronauts (1992)
• All-American Alien Boy (1996)
• Sex and Violence in Zero-G: The Complete Near-Space Stories (1998)
• American Beauty (2003)
• The Last Science Fiction Writer (2008)

Stories

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
The Death of Captain Future	1995
Where Angels Fear to Tread	1997
The Emperor of Mars	2010
Sixteen million leagues from Versailles	2013
Martian blood	2013
Frogheads	2015

Non-fiction

• Primary Ignition (2003) includes articles and essays from 1997–2004

External links

• Allen Steele at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Encyclopedia of Science Fiction entry
• Official Coyote Series Website
• Review of The Last Science Fiction Writer on SF Site by Steven H Silver