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Adam-Troy Castro
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Genres	Science fiction fantasy horror fiction
Notable awards	Seiun Award (2007) Philip K. Dick Award (2009)
Website
www.adamtroycastro.com

Adam-Troy Castro is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer living in Wildwood, Florida.

He has almost two hundred stories to his credit and has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Stoker. These stories include four Spider-Man novels, including the Sinister Six trilogy, and stories involving characters of Andrea Cort, Ernst Vossoff, and Karl Nimmitz. Castro is also known for his Gustav Gloom series of middle-school novels and has also authored a reference book on The Amazing Race.

Awards and nominations

Castro's fiction has been nominated for eight Nebulas, two Hugos, two Seiuns, the World Fantasy Award, and three Stokers.

In 2007, Castro and Jerry Oltion won the Seiun Award for Best Foreign Language Short Story of the Year for "The Astronaut from Wyoming."

In 2009, Castro won the Philip K. Dick Award for Emissaries from the Dead.

"The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation" was nominated for the 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction.

Bibliography

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2021)

Books

Lost in Booth Nine: Silver Salamander, 1993.
X-Men and Spider-Man: The Present, Berkley Boulevard, 1998. With Tom DeFalco.
Spider-Man: The Gathering of the Sinister Six, Berkley Boulevard, 1999.
An Alien Darkness, Wildside Press, 2000.
A Desperate Decaying Darkness, Wildside Press, 2000.
Spider-Man: The Revenge of the Sinister Six, Ibooks, 2001.
Spider-Man: The Secret of the Sinister Six, Ibooks, 2002.
Vossoff and Nimmitz: Just a Couple of Idiots Reupholstering Space and Time, Wildside Press 2002
Tangled Strings, Fivestar, 2003
With the Stars in their Eyes (collaborative collection with Jerry Oltion), Wildside Press, 2003
My Ox Is Broken: Roadblocks, Detours, Fast Forwards, and Other Great Moments from TV's THE AMAZING RACE (non-fiction). Benbella Books, 2006.
The Unauthorized Harry Potter (non-fiction). Borders Books, 2007.
Emissaries from the Dead: An Andrea Cort Novel. HarperCollins Eos, 2008.
The Shallow End of the Pool. Creeping Hemlock Press, 2008.
The Third Claw of God: An Andrea Cort Novel. HarperCollins Eos, 2009.
Fake Alibis. By Frank Sibila, with Adam-Troy Castro and Caren Kennedy. BenBella, 2009.
War of the Marionettes: An Andrea Cort Novel. (German). Lubbe, 2010.
V Is for Vampire. With Johnny Atomic. Eos, 2011.
Z Is for Zombie. With Johnny Atomic. Eos, 2011
Gustav Gloom and the People Taker. Grosset and Dunlap, 2012.
Gustav Gloom and the Nightmare Vault. Grosset & Dunlap, 2013
Gustav Gloom and the Four Terrors. Grosset & Dunlap, 2013.
Gustav Gloom and the Cryptic Carousel. Grosset & Dunlap, 2014.
Gustav Gloom and the Inn of Shadows. Grosset and Dunlap, 2015.
Gustav Gloom and the Castle of Fear. Grosset and Dunlap, 2016.

Short fiction collections

Her Husband's Hands and Other Stories. Prime Books, 2014.
The Author's Wife vs. The Giant Robot. Comicmix LLC, 2022.

Short stories

Year	Title	First published
1999	"The Astronaut from Wyoming"	—— (July 1999). "The Astronaut from Wyoming". Analog.
2002	"Unseen Daemons"	—— (July–August 2002). "Unseen Daemons". Analog.
2009	"Among the Tchi"	—— (May 2009). "Among the Tchi". Analog. 129 (5).
2009	"Gunfight on Farside"	—— (April 2009). "Gunfight on Farside". Analog. 129 (4).
2010	"Arvies"	—— (August 2010). "Arvies". Lightspeed (3).
2011	"Hiding Place"	—— (April 2011). "Hiding Place". Analog.
	"Her Husband's Hands"	—— (October 2011). "Her Husband's Hands". Lightspeed (17).
	"With Unclean Hands"	—— (November 2011). "With Unclean Hands". Analog.
2015	"Tasha's Fail-Safe"	—— (March 2015). "Tasha's Fail-Safe". Analog. 135 (3): 8–24.
	"Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent"	—— (April 2015). "Down Please". Analog. 135 (4): 69–75.
	"Evangelist"	—— (November 2015). "Evangelist". Analog. 135 (11): 64–71.

"The Coward's Option". Analog. March 2016.

References

"RECENZE: Adam-Troy Castro, Vyslanci mrtvých". Neviditelný pes (in Czech). February 15, 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
"World Fantasy Awards 2019 | World Fantasy Convention". Retrieved July 25, 2019.

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Philip K. Dick Award

Software by Rudy Rucker (1983)
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers (1984)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (1985)
Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers (1986)
Homunculus by James Blaylock (1987)
Strange Toys by Patricia Geary (1988)
Four Hundred Billion Stars by Paul J. McAuley (1989) (tie)
Wetware by Rudy Rucker (1989) (tie)
Subterranean Gallery by Richard Paul Russo (1990)
Points of Departure by Pat Murphy (1991)
King of Morning, Queen of Day by Ian McDonald (1992)
Through the Heart by Richard Grant (1993)
Growing Up Weightless by John M. Ford (1994) (tie)
Elvissey by Jack Womack (1994) (tie)
Mysterium by Robert Charles Wilson (1995)
Headcrash by Bruce Bethke (1996)
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter (1997)
The Troika by Stepan Chapman (1998)
253: The Print Remix by Geoff Ryman (1999)
Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter (2000)
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (2001)
Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo (2002)
The Mount by Carol Emshwiller (2003)
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (2004)
Life by Gwyneth Jones (2005)
War Surf by M. M. Buckner (2006)
Spin Control by Chris Moriarty (2007)
Nova Swing by M. John Harrison (2008)
Emissaries from The Dead by Adam-Troy Castro (2009) (tie)
Terminal Mind by David Walton (2009) (tie)
Bitter Angels by C. L. Anderson (2010)
The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder (2011)
The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy by Simon Morden (2012)
Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery (2013)
Countdown City by Ben H. Winters (2014)
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison (2015)
Apex by Ramez Naam (2016)
The Mercy Journals by Claudia Casper (2017)
Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn (2018)
Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman (2019)
Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker (2020)
Road Out of Winter by Alison Stine (2021)
Dead Space by Kali Wallace (2022)
The Extractionist by Kimberly Unger (2023)
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs (2024)

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