Scott Baker (writer)
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Scott Baker is an American science fiction
, fantasy
, and horror writer. He may be the only person to hold an Masters of Arts degree in Speculative Fiction (Goddard College). After 20 years in Paris, he now lives in Pacific Grove, California
. His first novel, Symbiote's Crown (l'Idiot-roi) received the French "PRIX Apollo" award. This novel was science fiction
. He won a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction
in 1985 for Still Life with Scorpion, and has been nominated for the award three other times. Baker was co-author of the screenplay for the French film LITAN, which won the "Prix de la Critique" (Critic's Prize) at the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival in 1982, and has worked on a number of other French films. He wrote some of the websites for WHO KILLED EVAN CHANG, the web tie-in for Steven Spielberg’s film, AI (Warner Brothers, 2001). He has been a judge for the World Fantasy Award and the Philip K. Dick Award.
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
, fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
, and horror writer. He may be the only person to hold an Masters of Arts degree in Speculative Fiction (Goddard College). After 20 years in Paris, he now lives in Pacific Grove, California
Pacific Grove, California
Pacific Grove is a coastal city in Monterey County, California, USA, with a population of 15,041 as of the 2010 census, down from 15,522 as of the 2000 census...
. His first novel, Symbiote's Crown (l'Idiot-roi) received the French "PRIX Apollo" award. This novel was science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
. He won a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction
This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy short story voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention....
in 1985 for Still Life with Scorpion, and has been nominated for the award three other times. Baker was co-author of the screenplay for the French film LITAN, which won the "Prix de la Critique" (Critic's Prize) at the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival in 1982, and has worked on a number of other French films. He wrote some of the websites for WHO KILLED EVAN CHANG, the web tie-in for Steven Spielberg’s film, AI (Warner Brothers, 2001). He has been a judge for the World Fantasy Award and the Philip K. Dick Award.
Novels
- Symbiote's Crown (1978)
- Nightchild (1979)
- Dhampire (1982)
- Drink the Fire from the Flames (1987) (Ashlu)
- Firedance (1986) (Ashlu)
- Webs (1989)
- Ancestral Hungers (1996)
Short Story Collections (in French only)
- Nouvelle recette pour canard au sang (1983)
- Fringales (1985)
- Aléas (1985)
Short Stories
- Flatsquid Thrills (1982)
- The Path (1982)
- The Lurking Duck (1983) [World Fantasy nominee]
- Still Life with Scorpion (1984) [World Fantasy winner]
- Sea Change (1986)
- Nesting Instinct (1987) [World Fantasy nominee]
- The Sins of the Fathers (1988)
- Varicose Worms (1989) [World Fantasy nominee]
- Alimentary Tract (1990)
- The Jamesburg Incubus (1990)
- Virus Dreams (1993)
- Prospero (1993)
- Full Fathom Deep (1995)
External links
- Bibliography and book covers at FantasticFiction
- French bibliography and book covers at nooSFere
- French bibliography, covers, and cover copy at librarie YS: littératures de l'imaginaire