Allen Steele: Tales of Near Space and Beyond
Allen Steele is a science fiction author born January 19, 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been a staff writer for newspapers in Massachusetts, Missouri, Tennessee, and Washington, DC. He and his wife now live in western Massachusetts.
He has written of humankind's ventures into Earth orbit, to the Moon, Mars, and the asteroid belt. He has also written a series about the colonization of a moon, Coyote, orbiting a gas giant planet 46 light years from Earth.
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Table of Contents
Coyote Horizon
The Sixth Book in the Coyote Series
Coyote Horizon
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Several years before the time of this novel, humans had made contact with the hjadd, a mysterious alien race. The hjadd have established an embassy on Coyote near Liberty, the original settlement,
As Coyote's colonists prepare to explore the rest of their world, one man, ex-convict Hawk Thompson, finds out more than anyone else has learned about the hjadd. What he's learned will change the history of humanity.
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Coyote Series
Allen Steele has taken these scientific observations and speculations and created Coyote, a habitable moon of Uma b, which he names Bear. The names of the planet and its moons come from Native American mythology.
Coyote
In the year 2070, America is in the grip of a right-wing dictatorship. A group of rebels steal a prototype starship, which reaches Coyote 230 years later. The crew and colonists are revived and begin life on their new home.
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Coyote Rising
Only six years after the first colonists, who fled an American dictatorship, land on Coyote, they are faced with the landings from two more ships from Earth.
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Coyote Frontier
With Earth's environment and society collapsing, Coyote is now humanity's only hope.
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Spindrift
A supplement to the Coyote trilogy. An expedition to an alien artifact discovered near a distant star is presumed lost when communication fails. Near the end of Coyote Frontier, three survivors and an alien turn up.
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Galaxy Blues
Kicked out of the Western Hemisphere Union Astronautica space fleet, young Jules Truffant stows away aboard the Robert E. Lee, headed for Coyote, planning to defect. He takes a job as a shuttle pilot aboard the Pride of Cucomonga, where he manages to botch the Pride's mission and tick off aliens in the process. This leads to him taking part in a mission across the galaxy to place a probe in the path of a black hole as it plows through an inhabited star system.
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Near Space Books
Orbital Decay (Near-Space)
Beamjacks are the assemblers of satellites in the near future. A group of them uncover a plot by the US National Security Agency to take wiretapping into space.
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Clarke County, Space
Humankind's first orbiting space colony attracts a diverse population from tourists to members of the Church of Elvis. And its citizens want independence.
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Lunar Descent (Ace Science Fiction)
Faced with rising production quotas, sinking bonuses, a sellout union, and a washed-up alcoholic for a station manager, the moondogs, the men and women who do the hard work at Descartes Station, are mad and they're not going to take it any more.
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Labyrinth of Night
Discovery and intrigue await an expedition to the Cydonia region of Mars, location of the "Face" and the "City" first seen by the Viking probe in 1976.
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A King of Infinite Space
Death for William Alec Tucker III was a gateway to a new life involving runaway nanotechnology, an asteroid named for Jerry Garcia, a castle, and a mop.
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Other Steele Novels
The Jericho Iteration
Ravaged by an earthquake, St. Louis in 2013 is still under martial law nearly a year after the disaster. Reporter Gerry Rosen at first thinks he's on to a story about corporate malfeasance, but it turns out to be more than that - a threat to the very freedom of the country.
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The Weight
This short novel was only published separately in England and is hard to find on its own. It is included in the collection "Sex and Violence in Zero G."
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The Tranquility Alternative
In Steele's alternate history, manned space flight began near the end of World War II. Fifty years later, with the US space program in decline, a crew heads to a missile base on the Moon to prepare it to be turned over to a German company. Six missiles are to be launched into the Sun, but an impostor and personal agendas threaten to change things for the worse.
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Oceanspace
Steele takes us below the waves, an environment less known to scientists and science fiction fans alike. The plot involves exploring a newly-discovered smoker - a hot vent in the ocean floor - and a sea monster.
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Chronospace
This is an expansion of the Hugo-winner "...Where Angels Fear to Tread" in which the Hindenburg, instead of exploding, lands safely. It speculates that UFOs are from Earth, but Earth of another time, and that science fiction can have unexpected effects on scientific progress.
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Steele Short Story Collections
Rude Astronauts
A collection of Steele's early stories, this includes "Goddard's People," which originally appeared in "Worcester Monthly" in 1987 as "Operation Blue Horizon" and introduced me to Steele. In his stories, near space is presented as a gritty, often unglamorous working environment.
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All American Alien Boy
While "Rude Astronauts" was set mostly in space, his second collection is set mainly on Earth. Each story includes an introduction by Steele.
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Sex and Violence in Zero-G
This is a complete collection of Steele's Near Space stories. It includes "The Weight" (published separately only in England) and his Hugo Award winning novella "The Death of Captain Future."
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American Beauty
This eclectic collection pays tributes to Tom Swift, Philip Jose Farmer, Isaac Asimov, Lost in Space, and includes love, music, and humor in the mix.
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Steele's Other Works
Primary Ignition: Essays: 1997-2001
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The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century
This collection includes Steele's Hugo Award winner, "The Death of Captain Future."
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Kindle Editions of shorter works by Allen Steele
Kronos
- Ten months after communications from a research base on Saturn's moon Titan mysteriously drops, a mixed crew of humans and "googles" approaches to investigate. The final harrowing message from the base has been kept secret from everyone on board the ship except the captain. Originally published in Science Fiction Age, edited by Scott Edelman, 1996.The Death Of Captain Future
- Union spacer Rohr Furland has shipped aboard a freighter commanded by Captain Future, a slightly crazed man obsessed with early 20th-century science fiction. When a distress call comes in from a nearby space station, Furland and the first officer must blend reality with the captain's fantasies. Winner of the Hugo Award and nominee for four other awards. This was originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction in 1995.The Good Rat
- In a future when animal testing is banned, a professional human "rat" tells the story of how he got out of the cage.. Nominated for a Hugo Award and a Locus Poll Award, this story was originally published in Analog in 1995.Agape Among The Robots
- After a bitter end to a volatile relationship, two cybernetics experts are brought together to develop the first commercial household robot. The engineering crew begins to realize that his "male" robot isn't being very nice to her "female" robot. Originally published in Analog in 2000.Zwarte Piet's Tale
- On 22nd-century Mars, a Dutch doctor decides to become Sinterklaas, and recruits the narrator, a black airship pilot, as his helper. As they distribute gifts among the colonies, they're the closest help when a refugee ship crashes. Originally published in Analog in 1998. Steele Links
- Allen Steele - Author: Official Website
- Official wesbite of award winning SF author, Allen Steele.
- Allen Steele's Coyote Series website
- From the home page of the site:
"Where potential new readers can find background information on all of Allen Steele's enchanting characters, and the mysterious locations they are destined to explore.
"Profiling each character and location, and including summaries of the plot from one book to another, new readers will find a preview of what lies ahead, while existing fans can enjoy looking back at frontier life on Coyote." - Allen Steele on the International Speculative Fiction Database
- Listing of everything Allen Steele has published plus more links. ISFDB is the place to go for information on science fiction and fantasy authors.
- Wikipedia entry for Allen Steele
- Information about Allen Steele and his published works.
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