Van Allen Plexico
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| Born | January 12, 1968 Sylacauga, Alabama |
| Occupation | Writer/Editor and Educator |
| Nationality | American |
| Genres | Science fiction, Fantasy, Pulp Adventure, Comics Commentary |
| Subjects | History, Political Science |
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Van Allen Plexico (born January 12, 1968) is an American professor of Political Science and History and a science fiction and fantasy author.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, Van Allen Plexico graduated from Auburn University with Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in 1990 and 1994, doing additional graduate work at Georgetown University and at Emory University. From 1995 through 2006 he lived and worked in the Atlanta, Georgia metro area. In 2006 he became Assistant Professor of Political Science and History at Southwestern Illinois College, near St. Louis, Missouri.
[edit] Career
Plexico has lectured, written, and spoken professionally on space science, alternate history, and the historical roots of contemporary comic books and science fiction literature. He has been published in print and online in the areas of book, television, film, and comics criticism and commentary (often by RevolutionSF.com), and has moderated discussion panels and emceed trivia tournaments at science fiction conventions around the US, beginning in 1998.
He is the author of the Sentinels series of superhero/pulp adventure novels and stories, published (as of May 2008) by Swarm Press. Artist Chris Kohler provided the interior illustrations for the new Swarm Press editions. The first three of these novels were originally published by White Rocket Books. Sentinels short stories are being published in A Thousand Faces magazine.
Plexico's classic pulp revival novels and novellas are being published by Airship 27 Productions and Adamant Entertainment, beginning with "Conspiracy of Terror" in Thrilling Tales #1. He also serves as an editor for White Rocket Books.
An inductee of the Heroes Magazine Hall of Fame, he is founder and executive editor of the Avengers-related comic book archives and reference site, AvengersAssemble. He has also contributed to the Wizard Magazine archives and was chosen by the Rittenhouse Archives to write the text for their commemorative The Complete Avengers, 1963-Present trading card set. In 2007 he edited ASSEMBLED!, a critically acclaimed collection of essays analyzing and commenting upon Marvel's Avengers comics, with profits going to the HERO Initiative.
[edit] Bibliography
- Sentinels: When Strikes the Warlord (WRB edition, 2006; Swarm Press edition, 2008), ISBN 1-934861-06-5
- Sentinels: A Distant Star (WRB edition, 2007; Swarm Press edition, 2008), ISBN 1-934861-07-3
- Sentinels: Apocalypse Rising (WRB edition, 2007; Swarm Press edition, 2008), ISBN 1-934861-08-1
- Assembled! Five Decades of Earth’s Mightiest (Editor, 2007), ISBN 978-0-6151-5444-2
- Sentinels: Widescreen Special Edition (2007)
- "The Spearhead of Invasion" in A Thousand Faces magazine, issue 3 (2008)
- "Conspiracy of Terror" (A Griffon novella) in Thrilling Tales magazine, issue 1 (2008), and in Double Danger Tales anthology (forthcoming, 2008)
- Mars McCoy and the Chaos Horde (forthcoming, 2008)
- Assembled! 2 (Editor, forthcoming, 2008)
- Sentinels: Alternate Visions (Editor, forthcoming, 2008)
- Sentinels: The Grand Design (Softcover Omnibus) (forthcoming, 2008)
