| David Wellington | |
| Birth Name: | David Wellington |
| Birth Place: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Pseudonym: | D. Nolan Clark |
| Occupation: | Author |
| Language: | English |
| Education: | Syracuse University Pennsylvania State University (MFA) Pratt Institute |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Notableworks: | Monster Island |
David Wellington (born 1971) is an American writer of horror fiction, best known for his Zombie trilogy. He also writes science fiction as D. Nolan Clark.
Wellington was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Syracuse University and received an MFA in creative writing from Penn State. He also holds a master's degree in Library Science from the Pratt Institute.[1] He now lives in New York City.[2]
He made his debut as a comic book writer on Marvel Zombies Return: Iron Man.[3] His novel The Last Astronaut was nominated for the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award.[4]
Revenant-X is the second book of the Red Space trilogy, directly following the events of Paradise-1. Revenant-X follows the crew of Artemis as they descend on Paradise-1 to find what is left of the colony they are trying to save. However, the colony, or what remains of it, is not human. Revenant-X is set to be released on November 5, 2024.
Revenant-X is in reference to one of the characters[5] in the trilogy, who, however, has not been called as such in the stories yet.
A blend of sci-fi and horror, Paradise-1 is the first novel in a trilogy about exploration and survival in deep space. In the novel, a police lieutenant who is tracking a serial killer finds that the suspect has kidnapped his victims and is keeping them imprisoned in a mining facility. After she calls in the arrest, her superior tells her to not report the discovery of the kidnapped victims, and she is reassigned to Paradise-1, a distant colony planet.
She is mystified by the order to not report on the kidnapping victims, who were filthy, hungry and unable to use language, and she perceives her reassignment to be a plan to get her out of sight.
Along with a doctor with who was the only survivor from a different disease outbreak and a military pilot who was her former lover in college, she goes into cryosleep and embarks on the three month trip in an unarmed transport ship. The humans are accompanied by a shape-shifting robot and an advanced AI module.
As the ship nears the planet, she is awakened from cryosleep by klaxons, as their ship is under attack from a nearby transport ship. As their ship is torn apart from projectiles, its communications and propulsion system becomes inoperable. Amidst the burning wreckage, the team sees that military vessels are converging on their ship. The team must improvise with the few remaining functions and tools to defend themselves and evade further attacks.
The Monster novels involve a global zombie apocalypse and describe how humanity has been reduced to tiny pockets of existence.
Wellington's vampire novels follow a Pennsylvania state trooper battling a centuries-old vampire.
Wellington's werewolf novels are set in remote Arctic Canada. The series follows werewolves who are being hunted to extinction by humans.
Plague Zone is a zombie novel set in the state of Washington.[9] It is completed in serial online, but not yet published in print. (Online serialization. Went to Kindle September 2012)
The first novel, Forsaken Skies, was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews as containing "the usual complications, heroics, and surprises (...), all professionally packaged and produced and entirely unmemorable".[10]