| Scott Edelman | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Scott Edelman at the 2007World Fantasy Convention | |
| Born | 1955 (age 69–70) |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer, Editor |
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Scott Edelman (/ˈɛdəlmən/; born 1955) is anAmericanscience fiction,fantasy, andhorror writer andeditor.
In the 1970s, he worked inAmerican comic books, in particular writing horror comics for bothMarvel Comics andDC Comics. For Marvel he created theScarecrow, and wrote some stories involvingCaptain America,Captain Marvel, andOmega the Unknown. He edited four issues of Marvel's self-producedfan magazine,FOOM, in the mid-1970s.
Since leaving comics, Edelman has become a prolific writer of short stories, beginning "The Last Christmas Tree," in the small-press magazineNight Voyages, Fall 1981, and with further work appearing magazines includingAnalog Science Fiction,Lightspeed,Apex, andRod Serling's The Twilight Zone, as well as numerous original anthologies. He also wrote one novel,The Gift, nominated for theLambda Literary Award.[1]
Edelman wrote stories that were included inEden Studios's zombie anthologies edited byJames Lowder.[2]: 341
Edelman has written for television, including work forHanna-Barbera, Fantasia for Real (2010), Stephen King's Golden Tales (1985). and several episodes ofTales from the Darkside.
He was the founding and only editor of the science fiction magazineScience Fiction Age, which was published by Sovereign Media Co. from 1992 until 2000.[3] He published and edited the semi-professional magazineLast Wave from 1982 to 1985, which was billed as "The Last Best Hope of Speculative Fiction" and published short fiction byThomas M. Disch,Avram Davidson, andIan Watson among other established authors. He was the founding editor ofRampage, a magazine coveringprofessional wrestling,[4] and has written unauthorized biographies of wrestlersChyna andStone Cold Steve Austin. Other magazines edited by Edelman includeSci-Fi Universe,Sci-Fi Flix, andSatellite Orbit.
In December 1996, while still the editor ofScience Fiction Age, Edelman also became editor of Sovereign Media'sSci-Fi Entertainment, the official print magazine of theSci-Fi Channel. He left Sovereign Media, and his role atSci-Fi Entertainment (by then renamedSCI FI magazine), in June 2000, but returned to be editor of Sci-Fi Channel's online magazine,Science Fiction Weekly, before transferring back to be editor ofSCI FI in February 2002.
Edelman currently runs the podcastEating the Fantastic, a series of conversations with writers, editors, and fans of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.
| Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
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| 1991 | The Gift | Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Science Fiction/Fantasy | Finalist | [5] |
| 2007 | Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man | Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction | Finalist | [6] |
| 2009 | The Hunger of Empty Vessels | Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction | Finalist | [7] |
| 2010 | What Will Come After | Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection | Finalist | |
| 2015 | Becoming Invisible, Becoming Seen | Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction | Finalist | [8][9] |
| 2016 | That Perilous Stuff | Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction | Finalist | [10] |
| 2017 | "Faking it Until Forever Comes" | Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction | Finalist | [11][12][13] |
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