Scott Baker (writer)

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Scott Baker (born 1947 in Chicago) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer.

His first novel, l'Idiot-roi (Symbiote's Crown), won the French Prix Apollo Award in 1978. In addition, he won the World Fantasy Award in 1984 for his short story Still Life with Scorpion.

Bibliography

Novels

• Symbiote's Crown (1978) [Prix Apollo Winner]
  ISBN 978-0425038390
• Nightchild (1979)
  ISBN 0671469312
• Dhampire (1982)
  ISBN 0671446665
• Drink the Fire from the Flames (1987) (Ashlu)
  ISBN 0812531477
• Firedance (1986) (Ashlu)
  ISBN 0812531450
• Webs (1989)
  ISBN 0812515587
• Ancestral Hungers (1996)
  ISBN 031285868X

• Flatsquid Thrills (1982)
• The Path (1982)
• The Lurking Duck (1983) (World Fantasy nominee[2])
• Still Life with Scorpion (1984) (World Fantasy winner^[3])
• Sea Change (1986) (Locus Awards nominee^[4])
• Nesting Instinct (1987) (World Fantasy nominee^[5])
• The Sins of the Fathers (1988)
• Varicose Worms (1989) (World Fantasy nominee,^[6] Locus Awards nominee^[7])
• Alimentary Tract (1990)
• The Jamesburg Incubus (1990)
• Virus Dreams (1993)
• Prospero (1993)
• Full Fathom Deep (1995)
• Feral Frolics (2014)

Anthologies (in French only)

• Ombres portées (1990)

References

• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, page 82

External links

• Scott Baker at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• French bibliography and book covers at nooSFere
• French bibliography, covers, and cover copy at librarie YS: littératures de l'imaginaire