David R. Palmer

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David R. Palmer (b 1941 in Chicago[1]) is a science fiction author who has been nominated twice for Hugo Awards. He is married and lives in Florida [1], where he works as a court reporter.

[edit] Published works

His first novel, Emergence (ISBN 0-553-25519-3), won the Compton Crook Award in 1985. It arose from a short story by the same title featured in an Analog anthology called Children of the Future; both versions also won reader's choice awards from Analog.

A sequel to Emergence, Tracking, began serialization in the July/August 2008 issue of Analog.

His second novel, Threshold (ISBN 0-553-24878-2), was published as the first book in the To Halt Armageddon trilogy[2] in 1985, to somewhat lesser acclaim. The "About the Author" section of Threshold states that David is "currently working on the sequel to Threshold, also to be published by Bantam"[1], to be called Spēcial Education[3], although it has not been published to date. He stated in the afterword to the 1990 edition of Emergence that any future writing would depend upon his finances. [4] Palmer has another completed but unpublished novel, "Schrödinger's Frisbee" which is not related to either of his first two novels. Wormhole Press has been indicated as a possible publisher for the new novels and for a reprinting of the Emergence and Threshold[5]

[edit] References

Locus Online's list of awards and nominations

  1. ^ a b Palmer, David R. (1985). "About the Author", Threshold. Bantam Spectra. ISBN 0-553-24878-2. 
  2. ^ Palmer, David R. [November 1984] (1990). Emergence, Signature Special Edition, Bantam Spectra, 297. ISBN 0-553-25519-3. “Threshold (Book I of the To Halt Armageddon trilogy)” 
  3. ^ Palmer, David R. [November 1984] (1990). Emergence, Signature Special Edition, Bantam Spectra, 297. ISBN 0-553-25519-3. “I'm almost five years overdue on Book II, Spēcial Education” 
  4. ^ Palmer, David R. [November 1984] (1990). Emergence, Signature Special Edition, Bantam Spectra, 297. ISBN 0-553-25519-3. 
  5. ^ "April 2008 Amazon.com comment on Emergence by David R. Palmer"


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