(1950- ) US author of sf and fantasy, mostly the latter, almost exclusively juveniles. Of some sf interest are: Murder in Orbit (1987; vt Space Station ICE-3 1987); My Teacher is an Alien (1989) and its sequels, My Teacher Fried my Brains (1991), My Teacher Glows in the Dark (1991), all three assembled as My Teacher is an Alien: 3 Books in One (omni 1995), plus and My Teacher Flunked the Planet (1992); Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon #2: The Dark Abyss (1989), a tie; the A.I. Gang sequence for children – Operation Sherlock (1986), Robot Trouble (1986) and Forever Begins Tomorrow (1986); and the Rod Allbright sequence of humorous sf adventures, Aliens Ate My Homework (1993) and I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X (1994). None of this work can easily be thought of as meant to be taken seriously, though Armageddon Summer (1998) with Jane Yolen is an acute and sympathetic rendering of benefits (and costs) of living through a fundamentalist understanding of the seemingly imminent End of the World, and the tales assembled in The One Right Thing (coll, 2008) are both competent and varied. [JC]
see also: Skylark Award.
Bruce Farrington Coville
born Syracuse, New York: 16 May 1950
died
works (selected)
fiction (sf)
series
A.I. Gang
Planet Builders
My Teacher
Space Brat
Rod Allbright
individual titles (sf)
fiction (non-sf)
series
- Spirits and Spells (New York: Dell/Twilight, 1983) [Dark Forces/Spirit World: pb/]
- Eyes of the Tarot (New York: Bantam Books, 1983) [Dark Forces/Spirit World: pb/Jill Bauman]
- Amulet of Doom (New York: Dell/Twilight, 1985) [Spirits and Spells: pb/]
Magic Shop
Camp Haunted Hills
Unicorn Chronicles
individual titles
- The Ghost in the Third Row (New York: Bantam Books, 1987) [pb/]
- Monster of the Year (New York: Pocket Books/Minstrel Book, 1989) [pb/Harvey Kurtzman]
- The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed (New York: Bantam Skylark, 1991) [pb/Daniel Henderson]
- The Dragonslayers (New York: Pocket/Minstrel, 1994) [pb/Tim Hildebrandt]
- Oddly Enough: Stories (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1994) [coll: hb/Michael Hussar]
- Odder Than Ever (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1999) [coll: hb/Michael Hussar]
- William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (New York: Dial Press, 1996) [hb/Dennis A Nolan]
- The Monsters of Morley Manor (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 2001) [hb/John Berg]
- Thor's Wedding Day (New York: Harcourt, 2005) [hb/Matthew Cogswell]
- The One Right Thing (Framingham, Massachusetts: NESFA Press, 2008) [coll: hb/Omar Rayyan]
- Oddest of All (New York: Harcourt, 2008) [coll: hb/Kelly Eismann]
- Always October (New York: Harper, 2012) [hb/Andrea Fermerstrand]
works as editor (highly selected)
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