Taylor Anderson (author)
{{short description|American alternate history science fiction author}}
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| occupation = Novelist
| citizenship = American
| alma_mater = Tarleton State University (BA, MA)
| period = 2008–present
| genre = Science fiction
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| notableworks = Destroyermen series
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Taylor Anderson is an author, historical artillery and firearm expert, re-enactor, and former history professor.{{cite web |url=http://www.taylorandersonauthor.com/index/biography.html |title=Biography |publisher=Taylor Anderson (blog) |first=Taylor |last=Anderson |date= |url-status=dead |access-date=2016-12-15 |archive-date=2016-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220130946/http://www.taylorandersonauthor.com/index/biography.html }} He is the author of the Destroyermen series, about {{USS|Walker|DD-163|6}}, {{USS|Mahan|DD-102|6}}, and {{USS|S-19|SS-124|6}}, and their fight against the Grik. Anderson has also written several short stories in the same fictional universe.
Anderson served as a weapons consultant to various media organizations.{{cite web |url=https://www.kswo.com/story/25606575/150-year-old-weaponry-showcased-on-fort-sill/ |title=150 year old weaponry showcased on Fort Sill |date=May 25, 2014 |work=KSWO-TV}}{{cite web |url=https://www.inverse.com/article/25087-star-wars-rogue-one-blasters |title='Rogue One' Blasters Are Real Life Firearms in Sci-Fi Drag |first=Ryan |last=Britt |date=August 13, 2021 |work=Inverse}} In 1999, he owned three cannons which he had used for Civil War re-enactments and manufacture 19th century firearms.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/59265534/ |title=Taylor Made |newspaper=Hood County News |date=September 25, 1999 |page=21 |url-access=subscription |first=Kathy |last=Smith}} He served as a weapons expert for the 2004 movie The Alamo.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/58662277/ |title=Sound off |newspaper=Hood County News |date=April 6, 2004 |page=7 |url-access=subscription}}
In May 2020, Anderson announced that Winds of Wrath would be the final book in the Destroyermen series and that he has started on a new writing project.{{cite episode |url=https://www.buzzsprout.com/995404/3458182?fbclid=IwAR32NsNWGb_IyVuQQwiQqyL1Yfi4J19WvXzq4b9Y444TlTw7-EOKwX1dLqE |title=S1 E6 Interview with Taylor Anderson |series=Coffee in Space (podcast) |season=1 |number=6 |date=May 7, 2020 |first=S. Daniel |last=Smith}} The first book of his Artillerymen series, a prequel to Destroyermen, was released in September 2021.
Education
Bibliography
=''Destroyermen''=
{{main|Destroyermen}}
Destroyermen is a series of 15 novels and 2 short stories, written from 2008 to 2020, telling the saga of the men of two United States Wickes-class destroyers that gets transported in March 1942 to an alternate Earth in which dinosaurs evolved into a dominant sentient life form.
;Novels
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! No. ! Title ! Publication date ! Hardcover ISBN ! Mass market paperback ISBN |
| 1
| June 2008 | {{ISBNT|978-0451462077}} | {{ISBNT|978-0451462374}} |
| 2
| Crusade | October 2008 | {{ISBNT|978-0451462305}} | {{ISBNT|978-0451462572}} |
| 3
| February 2009 | {{ISBNT|978-0451462534}} | {{ISBNT|978-0451462824}} |
| 4
| June 2010 | {{ISBNT|978-0451463333}} | {{ISBNT|978-0451463708}} |
| 5
| February 2011 | {{ISBNT|978-0451463883}} | {{ISBNT|978-0451464064}} |
| 6
| October 2011 | {{ISBNT|978-0451464170}} | {{ISBNT|978-0451464385}} |
| 7
| July 2012 | {{ISBNT|978-0451464545}} | {{ISBNT|978-0451414236}} |
| 8
| July 2013 | {{ISBNT|978-0451465139}} | {{ISBNT|978-0451419095}} |
| 9
| May 2014 | {{ISBNT|978-0451465665}} | {{ISBNT|978-0451468352}} |
| 10
| May 2015 | {{ISBNT|978-0451470614}} | {{ISBNT|978-0451470621}} |
| 11
| June 2016 | {{ISBNT|978-0451470638}} | {{ISBNT|978-0451470645}} |
| 12
| June 2017 | {{ISBNT|978-0451470652}} | {{ISBNT|978-0451470669}} |
| 13
| July 2018 | {{ISBNT|978-0399587504}} | {{ISBNT|978-0399587528}} |
| 14
| June 2019 | {{ISBNT|978-0399587535}} | {{ISBNT|978-0399587559}} |
| 15
| June 2020 | {{ISBNT|978-0399587566}} | {{ISBNT|978-0399587580}} |
;Short stories
- "Through the Squall" in the anthology To Slip the Surly Bonds (The Phases of Mars series) (September 2019) by Chris Kennedy and James Young, {{ISBN|978-1950420513}}
- "An Orderly Withdrawal" in the anthology Trouble in the Wind (The Phases of Mars series) (December 2019) by Chris Kennedy and James Young, {{ISBN|978-1950420759}}
=''Artillerymen''=
Artillerymen is a series that Anderson began writing in 2021 which tells the story of a group of unassigned American replacement soldiers who were traveling on several chartered transport ships in 1847 bound for Veracruz to reinforce U.S. General Winfield Scott's army in his march inland to capture Mexico City during the Mexican-American War when their ships was mysteriously transported to the same alternate Earth as the Destroyermen, but a century before the Destroyermen's arrival.{{cite web |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653432/purgatorys-shore-by-taylor-anderson/ |title=Purgatory's Shore By Taylor Anderson (Part of Artillerymen) Publisher's Page |work=Penguin Random House}} These people became the founders of the New United States (NUS) mentioned in the Destroyermen series.
;Novels
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! No. ! Title ! Publication date ! Hard cover ISBN ! Mass market paperback ISBN |
| 1 {{anchor|Purgatory's Shore}}
| September 2021 | {{ISBNT|978-0593200711}} | {{ISBNT|978-0593200728}} |
| 2 {{anchor|Hell's March}}
| Hell's March | September 2022 | {{ISBNT|978-0593200742}} | {{ISBNT|978-0593200759}} |
| 3 {{anchor|Devil's Battle}}
| Devil's Battle | September 2023 | {{ISBNT|978-0593200773}} | {{ISBNT|978-0593200780}} |
| 4 {{anchor|Inferno's Shadow}}
| Inferno's Shadow | July 2025 | {{ISBNT|978-0593641576}} | TBA |
Reception and literary significance
Several of his books sold well enough to be included on various best selling book lists. Firestorm was listed on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction for one week in October 2011{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E4DC123EF930A15753C1A9679D8B63 |title=Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction: Sunday, October 23rd 2011 |newspaper=New York Times |date=October 23, 2011 |author=}} and Iron Gray Sea was listed on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction for one week in July 2012.{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE3DE133EF931A15754C0A9649D8B63 |title=Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction: Sunday, July 22nd 2012 |newspaper=New York Times |date=July 22, 2012 |author=}} Iron Gray Sea was listed on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list during a single week in July 2012.{{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/books/best-selling/search/title/Taylor%20Anderson/ |title=Iron Gray Sea |newspaper=USA Today |date= |author=}}{{dead link|date=June 2019}}
Several of his books were finalist for a number of major literary awards. Into the Storm was a finalist for the 2009 Compton Crook Award.{{cite news |url=https://locusmag.com/2009/03/compton-crook-award-finalists/ |title=Compton Crook Award Finalists |date=March 16, 2009 |magazine=Locus}} Blood in the Water was a finalist for the 2016 Dragon Award for Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel{{cite news |url=https://locusmag.com/2016/09/2016-dragon-awards-winners/ |title=2016 Dragon Awards Winners |date=September 6, 2016 |magazine=Locus}} and Devil’s Battle was a finalist for the 2024 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel.{{cite news |url=https://locusmag.com/2024/08/2024-dragon-awards-ballot/ |title=2024 Dragon Awards Ballot |date=August 6, 2024 |magazine=Locus}}
=Critical studies and reviews of Anderson's work=
;''Straits of Hell
- {{cite journal |last=Sakers |first=Don |author-link=Don Sakers |date=November 2015 |title=The Reference Library |journal=Analog Science Fiction and Fact |volume=135 |issue=11 |pages=105–108}}
Interviews
=Audio=
- {{cite episode |url=https://www.buzzsprout.com/995404/3458182?fbclid=IwAR32NsNWGb_IyVuQQwiQqyL1Yfi4J19WvXzq4b9Y444TlTw7-EOKwX1dLqE |title=S1 E6 Interview with Taylor Anderson |series=Coffee in Space (podcast) |season=1 |number=6 |date=May 7, 2020 |first=S. Daniel |last=Smith}}
- {{cite podcast |url=http://readingandwritingpodcast.com/005-reading-and-writing-podcast-taylor-anderson-interview/ |title=Taylor Anderson interview |series=Reading and Writing Podcast |number=5 |date=April 2009 |first=Jeff |last=Rutherford}}
=Written=
- {{cite web |url=https://scifi.radio/2020/03/03/an-interview-with-destroyermen-author-taylor-anderson/ |title=An Interview with Destroyermen Author Taylor Anderson |first=Ivan |last=Majstorovic |date=March 3, 2020 |work=SCIFI.radio}}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.sffworld.com/2016/05/interview-with-destroymen-author-taylor-anderson/ |title=Interview with Destroyermen author Taylor Anderson |work=SFFWorld |date=May 4, 2016 |first=Matt |last=Mitrovich}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.taylorandersonauthor.com/}}
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- {{sfadb|Taylor_Anderson}}
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- [http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/245542/taylor-anderson Taylor Anderson at Penguin Randomhouse]
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