Scott Edelman

American writer and editor (born 1955)

Scott Edelman
Scott Edelman at the 2007 World Fantasy Convention
Born	1955 (age 68–69)
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, Editor
www.scottedelman.com

Scott Edelman (/ˈɛdəlmən/; born 1955) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer and editor.

Career

In the 1970s, he worked in American comic books, in particular writing horror comics for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics. For Marvel he created the Scarecrow, and wrote some stories involving Captain America, Captain Marvel, and Omega the Unknown. He edited four issues of Marvel's self-produced fan magazine, FOOM, in the mid-1970s.

Edelman has also written a number of short stories, the Lambda Award-nominated novel The Gift,^[1] and written for television, including work for Hanna-Barbera and several episodes of Tales from the Darkside.

He was the founding and only editor of the science fiction magazine Science Fiction Age, which was published by Sovereign Media Co. from 1992 until 2000.^[2] He published and edited the semi-professional magazine Last Wave from 1982 to 1985, which was billed as "The Last Best Hope of Speculative Fiction" and published short fiction by Thomas M. Disch, Avram Davidson, and Ian Watson among other established authors. He was the founding editor of Rampage, a magazine covering professional wrestling, and has written unauthorized biographies of wrestlers Chyna and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Other magazines edited by Edelman include Sci-Fi Universe, Sci-Fi Flix, and Satellite Orbit.

In December 1996, while still the editor of Science Fiction Age, Edelman also became editor of Sovereign Media's Sci-Fi Entertainment, the official print magazine of the Sci-Fi Channel. He left Sovereign Media, and his role at Sci-Fi Entertainment (by then renamed SCI 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 of SCI FI in February 2002.

Edelman wrote stories that were included in Eden Studios's zombie anthologies edited by James Lowder.^[3]^: 341

Awards

Awards for Scott Edelman's writing
Year	Title	Award	Result	Ref.
1991	The Gift	Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Science Fiction/Fantasy	Finalist	^[4]
2007	Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man	Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction	Finalist	^[5]
2009	The Hunger of Empty Vessels	Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction	Finalist	^[6]
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	^[7]^[8]
2016	That Perilous Stuff	Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction	Finalist	^[9]
2017	"Faking it Until Forever Comes"	Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction	Finalist	^[10]^[11]^[12]

Publications

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (March 2023)

Novellas

The Gift (1990)
These Words Are Haunted (2001)
What We Still Talk About (2008)
The Hunger of Empty Vessels (2009)
What Will Come After (2010)
"Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man" in The Living Dead, edited by John Joseph Adams (2008)
Things That Never Happened (2010)
Liars, Fakers, and the Dead Who Eat Them, illustrated by Daniele Serra (2017)
Tell Me Like You Done Before: And Other Stories Written on the Shoulders of Giants (2018)

Comics

Captain Marvel #49 (1977)
Captain Marvel #50 (1977)
Captain Marvel #51 (1977)
Captain Marvel #52 (1977)
Captain Marvel #53 (1977)
Captain Marvel #54 (1978)
Captain Marvel #55 (1978)
Doorway to Nightmare #5 (1978)
Marvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel, Vol. 5 (2014)

Biographies

Texas Rattlesnake (2000)
Warrior Queen: The Totally Unauthorized Story of Joanie Laurer (2000)

References

^ "3rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation. July 13, 1991. Archived from the original on March 29, 2015. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
^ "May 2000 issue of Science Fiction Age will be its last". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (Press release). Sovereign Media Co. 2000-02-11. Archived from the original on 2002-01-10. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
^ Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702- 58-7.
^ "3rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation. July 13, 1991. Archived from the original on March 29, 2015. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
^ "2007 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on 2022-05-05. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
^ "2009 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on 2022-08-09. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
^ "2015 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on 2022-08-10. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
^ "2015 Bram Stoker Awards® Winners". Horror Writers Association. 15 May 2016. Archived from the original on 2017-08-23. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
^ "2016 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on 2020-09-27. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
^ "2017 Bram Stoker Award® Winners & Nominees". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on 2022-08-13. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
^ "2017 Stoker Awards Winners". Locus Online. 2018-03-05. Archived from the original on 2022-07-06. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
^ "Announcing the 2017 Bram Stoker Awards Winners". Tor.com. 2018-03-05. Archived from the original on 2020-11-28. Retrieved 2022-07-06.