Daryl Gregory

Daryl Gregory (born 1965) is an American science fiction and comic book author. Gregory is a 1988 alumnus of the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction workshop,^[1] and won the 2009 Crawford Award for his novel Pandemonium.^[2]

Personal life

Daryl Gregory was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, with his two sisters. He graduated from Illinois State University in 1987 with majors in English and theater. That same year, he married Kathleen Bieschke. After graduation, he taught high school in Michigan for three years, before moving to Salt Lake City, when Bieschke got a job at University of Utah. Bieschke then was hired by Penn State, and the couple moved to State College, where Gregory was employed by Minitab. Gregory has two children, Emma and Ian.^[3]

Career

Gregory's first sale was to the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1990, the short story In the Wheels.^[4] His first novel, Pandemonium, was published by Del Rey Books in 2008, for which he won the 2009 Crawford Award for best first fantasy book. Pandemonium was also nominated for the World Fantasy Award,^[5] the Mythopoeic Awards^[6] and the Shirley Jackson Award.^[7] His second novel, The Devil's Alphabet was published by Del Rey Books in 2009.^[8] The Devil's Alphabet was named one of the best books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly.^[9] It was additionally nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 2010.^[10] In 2011, his third novel, Raising Stony Mayhall, was published ^[11] and was named one of the best science fiction books of the year by Library Journal^[12] The same year, a short story collection entitled Unpossible and Other Stories was published by Fairwood Press.^[13] Publishers Weekly named Unpossible one of the five best science fiction books of the year.^[14]

Gregory was hired by Boom! Studios in 2010 to co-write Dracula: Company of Monsters with Kurt Busiek. He was additionally hired to write the Planet of the Apes tie-in comic starting in August 2011.^[3] IDW hired Gregory to write The Secret Battles of Genghis Khan, a stand-alone graphic novel published in March 2013.^[15] Neuro-SF novel Afterparty was published by Tor Books in April 2014. His novella, We Are All Completely Fine, was published by Tachyon Publications in August, 2014 and is a Nebula Award finalist. Crossover young-adult novel Harrison Squared came out from Tor Books in March 2015.

Bibliography

Novels

• Pandemonium (Del Rey Books, 2008)
• The Devil's Alphabet (Del Rey Books, 2009)
• Raising Stony Mayhall (Del Rey Books, 2011)
• Afterparty (Tor Books, April 2014)
• We Are All Completely Fine Tachyon Publications, 2014)
• Harrison Squared (Tor Books, 2015)

Short Stories

• Unpossible and Other Stories (Fairwood Press, 2011)
• In the Wheels (Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, August 1990)
• Taking the High Road (Amazing Magazine, September 1991)
• The Sound of Glass Breaking (Antietam Review, Spring 1992)
• An Equitable Distribution (Hitchcock's Magazine, October 1997)
• Free, and Clear (Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 2004)
• The Continuing Adventures of Rocket Boy (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 2004)
• Second Person, Present Tense (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 2005)
• Gardening at Night (Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, April 2006)
• Damascus (Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, December 2006)
• Dead Horse Point (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 2007)
• Unpossible (Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, October 2007)
• The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm (Eclipse 2, October 2008)
• Glass (Technology Review Magazine, November/December 2008)
• What We Take When We Take What We Need (Subterranean Magazine, 2009)
• Message From the Bubblegum Factory (in the anthology Masked, formerly known as With Great Power, 2010)
• We Are All Completely Fine Tachyon Publications, August 2014)

Comics and Graphic Novels

Titles published by Boom! Studios include:

• Dracula: Company of Monsters
  • Volume One (collects #1-4, tpb, 2011)
  • Volume Two (collects #5-8, tpb, 2011)
  • Volume Three' (collects *9-12, tpb, 2011
• Planet of the Apes
  • Volume One (collects #1-4, tpb, 2011)
  • Volume Two (collects #5-8, tpb, 2012)
  • Issues #9-15, ongoing

Titles Published by IDW include:

• The Secret Battles of Genghis Khan (tpb, 2012)

References

External links

• Official website
• Daryl Gregory at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database