Steven Utley

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Steven Utley (b. 1948) is an American writer. He has written poems, humorous essays and other non-fiction, and worked on comic books and cartoons, but is best known for his science fiction stories.

1 Biography
2 Works
- 2.1 Collections
- 2.2 Books edited by Steven Utley
3 External links

[edit] Biography

Utley was born in the family of an Air Force non-commissioned officer and grew up on Air Force bases in the United States, Great Britain, and Okinawa. During the 1970s, he joined a group of science fiction writers in Austin, Texas, which included Lisa Tuttle, Howard Waldrop, and Bruce Sterling; the group was later formalized as Turkey City Writer's Workshop. Utley's first professionally published story, "The Unkindest Cut of All," a parody of Hugo Gernsbackian scientifiction, appeared in 1972. Since then he has published prolifically in and out of the science-fiction field, and The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction has called him "a figure of edgy salience."

Utley may be best known for his Silurian Tales series, launched in Asimov's Science Fiction in 1993 and continued in not only that magazine but also The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and the e-zines Sci Fiction and Revolution Science Fiction. The series describes the adventures and misadventures of a scientific expedition in the Paleozoic Era. Since 1997, he has made his home in Tennessee.

[edit] Works

[edit] Collections

Custer's Last Jump (with Howard Waldrop), Ticonderoga Publications, Australia, 1996
Ghost Seas (stories), Ticonderoga Publications, Australia, 1997
This Impatient Ape (verse), Anamnesis Press, 1998
Career Moves of the Gods (verse), Anamnesis Press, 2000
The Beasts of Love (stories), Wheatland Press, 2005
Where or When (stories), PS Publishing Ltd., Great Britain, 2006