Adam-Troy Castro

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Adam-Troy Castro is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer 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 Castro's fiction has been nominated for eight Nebulas, two Hugos, two Seiuns, the World Fantasy Award, and three Stokers. In 2009, he won the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel Emissaries From the Dead.

+ Awards for Adam-Troy Castro Work Year & Award Category Result Ref.The Last Robot1993 Locus AwardShort StoryBaby Girl Diamond1995 Bram Stoker AwardLong FictionThe Funeral March of the Marionettes1998 Locus AwardNovella1998 Nebula AwardNovella1998 Hugo AwardNovellaThe Astronaut from Wyoming (with Jerry Oltion)2000 Locus AwardNovella1999 HOMer AwardNovellahttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?22+19991999 Analog AwardNovellahttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+19992000 Hugo AwardNovella2000 Nebula AwardNovella2007 Seiun AwardTranslated Short StorySunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's2001 Analog AwardNovellahttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+20012002 Locus AwardNovella2003 Nebula AwardNovellaUnseen Demons2002 Analog AwardNovellahttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+20022003 Locus AwardNovellaOf a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs2004 Nebula AwardNoveletteThe Tangled Strings of the Marionettes2004 Theodore Sturgeon Award2005 Nebula AwardNovellaThe Shallow End of the Pool2008 Bram Stoker AwardLong Fiction2008 Black Quill AwardsSmall Press ChillEmissaries from the Dead2008 Philip K. Dick Award2022 Grand Prix de l'ImaginaireForeign Novelhttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2022Gunfight on Farside2009 Analog AwardNovellahttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+20092010 FantLab's Book of the Year AwardNovella/Short StoryWith Unclean Hands2011 Analog AwardNovellahttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+20112012 Nebula AwardNovella2013 Seiun AwardTranslated Short StoryHiding Place2011 Analog AwardNovellaArvies2011 Million Writers Award -2011 Nebula AwardShort StoryWar of the Marionettes2011 Kurd Laßwitz AwardForeign Workhttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+2011Her Husband's Hands2012 Nebula AwardShort Story2013 Grand Prix de l'ImaginaireForeign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Storieshttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+20132014 Premio IgnotusForeign StorySleeping Dogs2015 Analog AwardNovellahttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2015Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent2015 Analog AwardShort StoryThe Coward's Option2016 Analog AwardNovellahttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2016The Soul Behind the Face2016 Analog AwardNovellaThe Thing About Shapes to Come2017 Grand Prix de l'ImaginaireForeign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Storieshttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2017A Stab of the Knife2018 Analog AwardNovellahttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2018Blurred Lives2018 Analog AwardNovellaThe Unnecessary Parts of the Story2018 Analog AwardShort StoryThe Gorilla in a Tutu Principle or, Pecan Pie at Minnie and Earl's2019 Analog AwardNovellahttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2019The Savannah Problem2019 Analog AwardNovellaThe Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation2019 World Fantasy AwardShort FictionDraiken Dies2020 Analog AwardNovellahttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2020The Silence Before I Sleep2021 Analog AwardNovellahttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2021The Last Science Fiction Story2021 Analog AwardShort StoryBurning the Ladder2022 Analog AwardNovellaA Tableau of Things That Are2022 Eugie Award -The Third Claw of God2022 Grand Prix de l'ImaginaireForeign NovelUnfamiliar Gods2023 Seiun AwardTranslated Short StoryTo Fight the Colossus2023 Analog AwardNovellahttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+2023

Bibliography

Books X-Men and Spider-Man: The Present, Berkley Boulevard, 1998 (with Tom DeFalco) Spider-Man: The Gathering of the Sinister Six, Berkley Boulevard, 1999 Spider-Man: The Revenge of the Sinister Six, Ibooks, 2001 Spider-Man: The Secret of the Sinister Six, Ibooks, 2002 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 collections Lost in Booth Nine (1993) A Desperate, Decaying Darkness (2000) An Alien Darkness (2000) Vossoff and Nimmitz: Just a Couple of Idiots Reupholstering Space and Time (2002) With the Stars in their Eyes (with Jerry Oltion) (2003) Tangled Strings (2003) Her Husband's Hands and Other Stories (2014) And Other Stories (2019) The Author's Wife Vs. the Giant Robot and Other Stories (2022) Minnie and Earl (2023)

Short stories (Uncollected)

Clearance to Land (1989) Confusing Sequel to a Story You Haven't Read (1990) Synchronicity (1992) The House of Nails (1993) The Telltale Head (1993) Scars: A Romance in Seven Acts (1993) Close (1993) Death Rents a Video (1994) Jesus Used a Paperclip (1994) Razorface Did That! (1994) The Slow Hit (1994) Crucifixon (1995) Ragz (1995) The Good, the Bad, the Danged (1995) The Hand Inside (1995) Vend-A-Witch (1995) Family Album (1996) The Way Things Ought to Be (1996) What Happened Next (1997) Crisis on Ward H! (1998) Suds (1998) The Death of Love (1998) The Second Time Around (1998) The Well (1998) Vocabulary (1998) Windshield (1998) The Astronaut from Wyoming (1999) (with Jerry Oltion) The Adventure of the Garrulous Codger (2003) Fantasy Room (2004) Good for the Soul (2005) After the Protocols (2006) The Night of the Living POTUS (2008) After the Ice (2008) Among the Tchi (2009) The Anteroom (2010) During the Pause (2012) Another Friendly Day in the Antique Trade (2014) The Thing About Shapes to Come (2014) The Totals (2014) Hide and Shriek (2014) In the Temple of Celestial Pleasures (2014) Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent (2015) Framing Mortensen (2016) Death Every Seventy-Two Minutes (2017) Shakesville (2017) (with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro) Unfamiliar Gods (2017) (with Judi B. Castro) Q & A (2017) James, in the Golden Sunlight of the Hereafter (2017) A Touch of Heart (2017) (with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro) The Mouth of the Oyster (2017) (with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro) The Streets of Babel (2018) Pitcher Plant (2018) The Unnecessary Parts of the Story (2018) The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation (2018) Example (2019) The Minor Superhero, at Home after His Series Ends (2019) Sand Castles (2019) On an Old Man's Contemplation of an Archway Sealed with Stones (2019) Genesis for Dyslexics (2019) Sacrid's Pod (2019) Dollhouse (2019) Eros Pratfalled, Or, Adrift in the Cosmos with Lasagna and Mary Steenburgen (2019) Fortune's Final Hand (2020) Today's Question of the Day in Waverly, Ohio (2020) Many Happy Returns (2020) Decorating with Luke (2020) The Time Traveler's Advice to the Lovelorn (2020) The End of the World Measured in Values of N (2020) The Monkey Trap (2020) The Wallpaper Out of Space (2020) Answering the Questions You Might Have About the Kharbat (2021) Rotten Little Town: An Oral History (Abridged) (2021) The Last Science Fiction Story (2021) And Now, a Preview of Coming Attractions (2021) A Tableau of Things That Are (2021) Judi (2021) The Silence Before I Sleep (2021) Glimpses in Amber (2021) Ten Scenes from a Typical Day in the Life of the All-Powerful Despot (2021) Fairy Tale (2021) Orientation (2022) The Last Act at the Time Cabaret (2022) Cards on the Table (2022) My Future Self, Refused (2022) The Arm Ouroboros (2022) One Wild Night (2022) The Conflagration at the Museum of You (2022) With the Wheeze of a Glass Sentence (2022) The Day the Earthman Didn't Show (2023) An Inconvenient Man (2023) Spaceman Jones (2023) To Fight the Colossus (2023) Five Things That Go Through Your Mind After the Masked Killer Decapitates You with an Axe and Your Still-Living Head Has a Few Seconds of Consciousness Left to Gaze at Your Twitching Body (2023) Seed (2023) Farewell to Faust (2024) Gab (2024) The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics (2024) The Terrible Secret of the Immortal Bards (2024) Minnie and Earl Have a Kitten (2024) Amelia's Story (2024) What We Plan to Do with You (2024) Message in a Babel (2025)

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