David Wellington (author)

Wellington was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Syracuse University and received an MFA in creative writing from Penn State. He also holds a master's degree in Library Science from the Pratt Institute.David Wellington (2007) Monster Island, Snow Book, About Author section He now lives in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.amazon.com/David-Wellington/e/B001H9U0JY | title=David Wellington Biography | website=Amazon | access-date=2010-03-08 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601125349/http://www.amazon.com/David-Wellington/e/B001H9U0JY | archive-date=2010-06-01 | url-status=live }}

He made his debut as a comic book writer on Marvel Zombies Return: Iron Man.{{cite web |first=Troy |last=Brownfield |url=http://www.newsarama.com/comics/060922-MArvelZombies05.html |title=The Zombies - This Time, With Literate Roots |publisher=Newsarama |date=June 22, 2009 |access-date=2009-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090624221245/http://www.newsarama.com/comics/060922-MArvelZombies05.html |archive-date=June 24, 2009 |url-status=live }} His novel The Last Astronaut was nominated for the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sfadb.com/Arthur_C_Clarke_Award_2020 |title=Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020 {{!}} Science Fiction Awards Database |website=www.sfadb.com |language=en-US }}

Revenant-X, the second book of the Red Space trilogy, begins exactly where Paradise-1 left off. The novel, which blends sci-fi horror and space adventure, follows the crew of Artemis on their search of a seemingly deserted Paradise-1 for what is left of the colony they are trying to save. However, the colony, or what remains of it, is not human.{{Cite web |date=2024-11-05 |title=Exclusive Interview: “Revenant-X” Author David Wellington |url=https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-revenant-x-author-david-wellington/ |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=paulsemel.com}} Revenant-X was released on November 5, 2024.{{cite book |last=Wellington |first1=David |author-link=David Wellington (author) |title=Revenant-X |location=NY, New York |publisher=Orbit |date=5 Nov 2024 |isbn=978-0316569354 }}

Revenant-X is in reference to one of the characters in the trilogy.{{Cite web |date=2024-07-14 |title=Revenant-X: New Book From The Master Of Sci-fi Horror David Wellington Releasing This Year |url=https://fully-booked.ca/editorials/revenant-x-new-book-from-the-master-of-sci-fi-horror-david-wellington-releasing-this-year/ |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=fully-booked.ca |language=en-US}}

A blend of sci-fi and horror, Paradise-1 is the first novel in the Red Space trilogy about exploration and survival in deep space. In the novel, a police lieutenant who is tracking a serial killer finds that the suspect has kidnapped his victims and is keeping them imprisoned in a mining facility. After she calls in the arrest, her superior tells her to not report the discovery of the kidnapped victims, and she is reassigned to Paradise-1, a distant colony planet.

She is mystified by the order to not report on the kidnapping victims, who were filthy, hungry and unable to use language, and she perceives her reassignment to be a plan to get her out of sight.

Along with a doctor with who was the only survivor from a different disease outbreak and a military pilot who was her former lover in college, she goes into cryosleep and embarks on the three month trip in an unarmed transport ship. The humans are accompanied by a shape-shifting robot and an advanced AI module.

As the ship nears the planet, she is awakened from cryosleep by klaxons, as their ship is under attack from a nearby transport ship. As their ship is torn apart from projectiles, its communications and propulsion system becomes inoperable. Amidst the burning wreckage, the team sees that military vessels are converging on their ship. The team must improvise with the few remaining functions and tools to defend themselves and evade further attacks.{{cite book |last=Wellington |first1=David |author-link=David Wellington (author) |title=Paradise-1 |location=NY, New York |publisher=Orbit |date=4 Apr 2023 |isbn=978-0316496742 }}

The Monster novels involve a global zombie apocalypse and describe how humanity has been reduced to tiny pockets of existence.

1. Monster Island
2. Monster Nation
3. Monster Planet

Wellington's vampire novels follow a Pennsylvania state trooper battling a centuries-old vampire.

1. 13 Bullets (2006 online serialization; 2007 print)
2. 99 Coffins (2007)
3. Vampire Zero (2008)
4. 23 Hours (2009)
5. 32 Fangs (published April 2012){{cite web | url=http://thecrawlspaceonline.blogspot.com/2010/07/characters-welcome-profile-of-david.html | title=Characters Welcome: A Profile of David Wellington | access-date=2011-03-26 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708065713/http://thecrawlspaceonline.blogspot.com/2010/07/characters-welcome-profile-of-david.html | archive-date=2011-07-08 | url-status=live }}{{cite web | url=http://thezombiefeed.biz/behind-the-brains%E2%80%A6-an-interview-with-david-wellington/ | title=Brains Behind… An Interview with David Wellington | last=Eugune | access-date=2011-03-26 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110109212608/http://thezombiefeed.biz/behind-the-brains%E2%80%A6-an-interview-with-david-wellington/ | archive-date=2011-01-09 }}

Wellington's werewolf novels are set in remote Arctic Canada. The series follows werewolves who are being hunted to extinction by humans.

1. Frostbite was published on October 6, 2009. The web serialization can be found at Wellington's [https://web.archive.org/web/20120310105111/http://www.davidwellington.net/serials/frostbite/part-1-the-drunken-forest/1-3/ website].
2. Overwinter was released on September 14, 2010.{{cite book|title = Overwinter: A Werewolf Tale|isbn = 978-0307460790|last1 = Wellington|first1 = David|year = 2010| publisher=Three Rivers Press |url-access = registration|url = https://archive.org/details/overwinter00well}}

Plague Zone is a zombie novel set in the state of Washington.{{Cite web |url=http://www.davidwellington.net/serials/plague-zone/chapters/1-2/ |title=Zone |access-date=2012-03-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221024048/http://www.davidwellington.net/serials/plague-zone/chapters/1-2/ |archive-date=2012-02-21 |url-status=dead }} It is completed in serial online, but not yet{{when|date=December 2018}} published in print. (Online serialization. Went to Kindle September 2012){{cn|date=December 2018}}

• Chimera (2013)
• "Minotaur" (2013 e-book)
• "Myrmidon" (2013 e-book)
• The Hydra Protocol (2014)
• The Cyclops Initiative (2016)

The first novel, Forsaken Skies, was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews as containing "the usual complications, heroics, and surprises (...), all professionally packaged and produced and entirely unmemorable".{{cite news|title=FORSAKEN SKIES by D. Nolan Clark|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/d-nolan-clark/forsaken-skies/|access-date=1 September 2016|work=Kirkus Reviews|language=en-us|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920235835/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/d-nolan-clark/forsaken-skies/|archive-date=20 September 2016|url-status=live}}

1. Forsaken Skies (2016), {{ISBN|978-0-316-35569-8}}
2. Forgotten Worlds (2017), {{ISBN|978-0-316-35577-3}}
3. Forbidden Suns (2017), {{ISBN|978-0-316-35581-0}}

• The Last Astronaut (2019), {{ISBN|978-0-356-51229-7}}

1. "Chuy and the Fish" in [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0976555948 The Undead: Zombie Anthology] (Oct. 2005, Permuted Press)
2. "Cyclopean" in [http://www.permutedpress.com The Undead: Skin and Bones] (Aug. 2007, Permuted Press)
3. "Twilight in the Green Zone" in [https://web.archive.org/web/20111021195851/http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/atp130exoticgothic.htm Exotic Gothic] (2007, Ash-Tree Press, ed. Danel Olson).{{cite book|last=Wellington|first=David, "Twilight in the Green Zone"|title=Exotic Gothic|year=2007|publisher=Ash-Tree Press|location=Ashcroft, British Columbia|isbn=978-1-55310-099-7 |pages=46–60|editor=Danel Olson|type=Print|title-link=Exotic Gothic}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20120519094010/http://faculty.lonestar.edu/dolson/podcasts.html Click for Podcast by author.]
4. "Grvnice" in [https://web.archive.org/web/20111021192831/http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/ATP140exoticgothic2.htm Exotic Gothic 2] (2008, Ash-Tree Press, ed. Danel Olson).{{cite book|last=Wellington|first=David, "Grvnice"|title=Exotic Gothic 2|year=2008|publisher=Ash-Tree Press|location=Ashton, British Columbia|pages=186–191|isbn=978-1-55310-109-3|editor=Danel Olson|title-link=Exotic Gothic}}
5. "Off Radio" in [http://buriedtales.12tomidnight.com Buried Tales of Pinebox, TX] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812231354/http://buriedtales.12tomidnight.com/ |date=2011-08-12 }} (June 2009, 12 to Midnight)
6. "Atacama" in Exotic Gothic 4 (May 2012, PS Publishing, ed. Danel Olson)
7. "The Man With The Fractal Tattoo", Whose Future is It?, chapter 3 (2018)"David Wellington" in Cellarius Stories, Volume 1. Cellarius, Ed., New York: 2018, {{ISBN|978-1-949688-02-3}}.
8. "The Passenger", Whose Future is It?, chapter 11 (2018)

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