Michael Reaves

James Michael Reaves (born September 14, 1950) is an American writer, known for his contributions as scriptwriter and story editor to a number of 1980s and 1990s animated television series, including Disney's Gargoyles and Batman: The Animated Series. He has also written media tie-in novels, children's books, and original fiction. He often collaborates with Steve Perry and won a 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program in his work on Batman: The Animated Series.

Reaves suffers from Parkinson's Disease, and for a time maintained a blog concerning his experiences dealing with the disease and its effects.^[1] Typing is now difficult for him,^[2] and by his own account, he has lost the ability to speak coherently.^[1] Reaves has been working extensively with co-authors since 2004.

Books

Novels

• Dragonworld (with Byron Preiss) (1979)
• Darkworld Detective (1981^[3])
• Hellstar (with Steve Perry) (1984^[4])
• The Shattered World (1984)
• Dome (with Steve Perry) (1987)
• The Burning Realm (1988^[5])
• The Omega Cage (with Steve Perry) (1988)
• Street Magic (1991^[3])
• Night Hunter (1995)
• Thong the Barbarian Meets the Cycle Sluts Of Saturn (with Steve Perry) (1998)
• Voodoo Child (1998)
• Hell On Earth (2001^[3]) (Book I of The Trine)
• Mr. Twilight (with Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff) (2006) (Book II of The Trine)
• Batman: Fear Itself (with Steven-Elliot Altman) (2007^[6])

Star Wars

• Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter (2001)
• Death Star (with Steve Perry) (2007)
• Shadow Games (with Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff) (2011)
• The Last Jedi (with Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff) (2013)

Coruscant Nights

• Jedi Twilight (2008)
• Street of Shadows (2008)
• Patterns of Force (with Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff)^[7] (2009)

MedStar Duology

• MedStar I: Battle Surgeons (with Steve Perry) (2004)
• MedStar II: Jedi Healer (with Steve Perry) (2004)

Young Adult

• I, Alien (1978)
• Sword of the Samurai (1984^[8][9]) (part of the Time Machine series)
• InterWorld (2007^[10]) (with Neil Gaiman)
• The Silver Dream (2013^[11]) (with Neil Gaiman and Mallory Reaves)

Anthologies and collections

• Shadows Over Baker Street (2003) (co-editor and contributor)
• The Night People (2005) (author)

Short stories

• The Breath of Dragons (1973)
• Passion Play (1974)
• The Century Feeling (November 1974)
• The Sound of Something Dying (1976)
• Amber Day (1977)
• Love Among the Symbionts (1977)
• The Big Spell and The Maltese Vulcan (1977)
• Shadetree (1978)
• Werewind (1981)
• The Tearing Of Graymare House (1983)
• The Night People (1985)
• The Way Home (with Steve Perry) (1991)
• Catspaw (1992)
• Elvis Meets Godzilla (1994)
• Red Clay (2001) (in The Children of Cthulhu)
• House Of The Vampire (2003)
• The Adventure Of The Arab's Manuscript (2003) (in Shadows Over Baker Street)
• Keep Coming Back (2003)
• The Legend Of The Midnight Cruiser (2003)
• Undeadsville (2004)
• Spider Dream (2005) (in Lost on the Darkside)

Television

Live-action

• The Secrets of Isis, one episode (1975)
• Shazam!, one episode (1976)
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, story (1977)
• The Twilight Zone, two episodes produced, and two stories (1986–89)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation, one episode (1987)
• Pandora, pilot script(1987)
• Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, two episodes produced, three episodes, and one story (1987–1988)
• Star Runners, pilot episode (1988)
• Monsters, four episodes (1988–1990)
• Swamp Thing, one episode (1990)
• The Flash, one episode (1990)
• Father Dowling Mysteries, three episodes (1990–1991)
• Young Hercules, one episode (1999)
• Sliders, one episode (1999)

Animated

• Batman Beyond
• Batman: The Animated Series
• Blackstar
• Centurions
• Conan and the Young Warriors
• Dragon's Blood
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Disney's Gargoyles
• Godzilla: The Series
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002)
• Invasion America
• My Little Pony
• The New Adventures of He-Man
• Peter Pan and the Pirates
• The Real Ghostbusters
• The Smurfs
• Space Sentinels
• Spider-Man Unlimited
• Spiral Zone
• Star Wars: Droids
• Star Wars: Ewoks
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• The Transformers

References

External links

• Michael Reaves at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Michael Reaves at the Internet Movie Database