Steven Utley


Steven UtleySteven Utley (b. 1948) is an American writer. He has written non-fiction, poems, and worked on comic books and cartoons, but is best known for his science fiction stories.

Utley was born in the family of an Air Force non-commissioned officer and grew up on Air Force bases in the United States, Great Britain, and Okinawa. During the 1970s, he joined a group of science fiction writers in Austin, Texas, which included Lisa Tuttle, Howard Waldrop and Bruce Sterling. The group was later formalized as Turkey City Writer's Workshop. Utley's first professionally published story, "The Unkindest Cut of All," a parody of Hugo Gernsbackian scientifiction, appeared in 1972. Since then he has published prolifically in and out of the science fiction field.

Steven Utley may be best known for his Silurian Tales series, started in 1993. The series describes the adventures and misadventures of a scientific expedition in the Paleozoic Era. Since 1997, he has made his home in Tennessee.

Selected Bibliography
Complete Bibliography

Collections

  • Ghost Seas (1997)
  • The Beasts of Love (2005)
  • Where or When (2006)

Anthologies

  • Lone Star Universe (1976) with Geo W. Proctor

Short Fiction

  • Rejection File (1977)
  • To 1966 (1977)
  • Our Vanishing Triceratops (1977) with Joe Pumilia
  • Tom Sawyer's Sub-Orbital Escapade (1977) with Lisa Tuttle
  • In Brightest Day, In Darkest Night (1977)
  • Mr. Wyatt in Darkest Africa (1977) as "Bruce Holt"
  • Good-bye to All of That (1977) as "S. Dale"
  • Night Life (1977)
  • Sidhe (1977)
  • The Thirteenth Labor (1977)
  • Someone Is Watching (1977)

Poems

  • Sport (1973)
  • Invaders (1975)
  • The Local Allosaurus (1975)
  • Stepping into the Role (1977)
  • And There Go the Property Values (1995)
  • Pteranodon (1996)
  • This Impatient Age (1997)
  • Our Brave Terranaut (1997)
  • Report to Moctezuma (1997)
  • To a Scorpion (1997)
  • Two Fish (1997)
  • Rex and Regina (1997)
  • Embrace
  • This Impatient Ape (1998) poetry chapterbook
  • (1998)
  • The Moon Does Not Envy the Earth (1998)
  • Background Music (2000)
  • Career Moves of The Gods (2000) poetry chapterbook
  • Song and Dance (2002)
  • Red Giantess (2002)
  • Poor Richard's Analogue (2003)
  • To a Prehistoric Huntsman Dead from Exposure (2003)
  • Pterygotus (2005)
  • Daredevil (2005)

Essays

  • Personal Column (1975)

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