Simon Hawke

Simon Hawke (born September 30, 1951) is an American author of mainly science fiction and fantasy novels. He was born Nicholas Valentin Yermakov, but began writing as Simon Hawke in 1984 and later changed his legal name to Hawke. He has also written near future adventure novels under the pen name J. D. Masters and a series of humorous mystery novels. He was the Colorado Writer of the Year, 1992.[1]

As Nicholas Yermakov, his early books were published in 1981-1984 including two Battlestar Galactica novelizations. Since re-launching his career as Simon Hawke in 1984, he has produced a large volume of lighter fiction. Almost all of his books published after 1984 have been either part of a series and/or tie-in novels and novelizations.

His first major work as Simon Hawke was the Timewars series, which recounts the adventures of an organization tasked with protecting history from being changed by time travellers. In the world of the series, many people and events we consider fictional are historical, and vice versa; the action of each book in the series weaves in and out of the events of a famous work of literature. For example, in the first book in the series time travellers contesting the fate of Richard I of England become caught up in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe.

He has also written a series of humorous murder mysteries which features a young William Shakespeare and a fictional friend, Symington "Tuck" Smythe.

Bibliography

Boomerang (as Nicholas Yermakov)
TimeWars
Psychodrome
Wizard of 4th Street
Donovan Steele (as J. D. Masters and S. L. Hunter)
The Reluctant Sorcerer
Battlestar Galactica (novelizations, as Nicholas Yermakov)
Star Trek
Novelizations
Dungeons & Dragons
Shakespeare & Smythe mysteries
Standalone novels

References

  1. ↑ Stephanie, Taylor (2007). "Hawke, Simon 1951–". Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. 154. Gale.
  2. ↑ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-446-36260-3
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Brown, Charles N.; Contento, William G. (January 2, 2010). "1984-1998: Books, Listed by Author, Part 9". The Locus Index to Science Fiction. Lotus Publications. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
  4. ↑ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-56076-676-6
  5. ↑ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-312-87372-1
  6. ↑ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-312-87894-8
  7. ↑ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7653-0241-0
  8. ↑ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7653-0426-1
  9. ↑ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-515-10845-3
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