Adam-Troy Castro Explained

Adam-Troy Castro
Occupation:	Writer
Nationality:	American
Awards:	Seiun Award (2007) Philip K. Dick Award (2009)

Adam-Troy Castro is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer^[1] 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.^[2]

Bibliography

Books

• Lost in Booth Nine: Silver Salamander, 1993.
• X-Men and Spider-Man: Time's Arrow Book 2 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.

Stories

Year	width=25%	Title	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
1999	data-sort-value="Astronaut From Wyoming"	""	Castro, Adam-Troy . 2 . July 1999 . The Astronaut From Wyoming . Analog.
2002	"Unseen Daemons"	Castro, Adam-Troy . Unseen Daemons . . Jul–Aug 2002. 2.
2009	"Among the Tchi"	Castro, Adam-Troy . 2 . May 2009 . Among the Tchi . . 129 . 5.
	"Gunfight on Farside"	Gunfight on Farside . . 129 . 4 . Castro . Adam-Troy . 2 . April 2009.
2010	"Arvies"	Arvies . . 3 . Castro . Adam-Troy . 2 . Aug 2010.
2011	"Hiding Place"	Hiding Place . . Adam-Troy . Castro . 2 . April 2011.
	"Her Husband's Hands"	Her Husband's Hands . . 17 . Castro . Adam-Troy . 2 . Oct 2011.
	"With Unclean Hands"	Castro, Adam-Troy . With Unclean Hands . . 2 . November 2011.
2015	"Tasha's Fail-Safe"	Castro, Adam-Troy . 2 . March 2015 . Tasha's Fail-Safe . . 135 . 3 . 8–24.
	"Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent"	Castro, Adam-Troy . April 2015 . Down Please . . 135 . 4 . 69–75. 2.
	"Evangelist"	Castro, Adam-Troy . 2 . November 2015 . Evangelist . . 135 . 11 . 64–71.

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

See also

• List of horror fiction authors

Notes and References

1. News: RECENZE: Adam-Troy Castro, Vyslanci mrtvých. February 15, 2011. Neviditelný pes. Czech. June 29, 2012.
2. Web site: World Fantasy Awards 2019 World Fantasy Convention. en-US. 2019-07-25.