Adam-Troy Castro
Adam-Troy Castro is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer living in Wildwood, Florida.
He has almost two hundred stories to his credit and has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Stoker. These stories include four Spider-Man novels, including the Sinister Six trilogy, and stories involving characters of Andrea Cort, Ernst Vossoff, and Karl Nimmitz. Castro is also known for his Gustav Gloom series of middle-school novels and has also authored a reference book on The Amazing Race.
Awards
Castro's fiction has been nominated for eight Nebulas, two Hugos, two Seiuns, the World Fantasy Award, and three Stokers.| Work | Year & Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
| The Last Robot | 1993 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| Baby Girl Diamond | 1995 Bram Stoker Award | Long Fiction | ||
| The Funeral March of the Marionettes | 1998 Locus Award | Novella | ||
| The Funeral March of the Marionettes | 1998 Nebula Award | Novella | ||
| The Funeral March of the Marionettes | 1998 Hugo Award | Novella | ||
| The Astronaut from Wyoming ' | 2000 Locus Award | Novella | ||
| The Astronaut from Wyoming ' | 1999 HOMer Award | Novella | ||
| The Astronaut from Wyoming ' | 1999 Analog Award | Novella | Won | |
| The Astronaut from Wyoming ' | 2000 Hugo Award | Novella | ||
| The Astronaut from Wyoming ' | 2000 Nebula Award | Novella | ||
| The Astronaut from Wyoming ' | 2007 Seiun Award | Translated Short Story | Won | |
| Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's | 2001 Analog Award | Novella | Won | |
| Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's | 2002 Locus Award | Novella | ||
| Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's | 2003 Nebula Award | Novella | ||
| Unseen Demons | 2002 Analog Award | Novella | ||
| Unseen Demons | 2003 Locus Award | Novella | ||
| Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs | 2004 Nebula Award | Novelette | ||
| The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes | 2004 Theodore Sturgeon Award | |||
| The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes | 2005 Nebula Award | Novella | ||
| The Shallow End of the Pool | 2008 Bram Stoker Award | Long Fiction | ||
| The Shallow End of the Pool | 2008 Black Quill Awards | Small Press Chill | ||
| Emissaries from the Dead | 2008 Philip K. Dick Award | Won | ||
| Emissaries from the Dead | 2022 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Novel | ||
| Gunfight on Farside | 2009 Analog Award | Novella | ||
| Gunfight on Farside | 2010 FantLab's Book of the Year Award | Novella/Short Story | ||
| With Unclean Hands | 2011 Analog Award | Novella | Won | |
| With Unclean Hands | 2012 Nebula Award | Novella | ||
| With Unclean Hands | 2013 Seiun Award | Translated Short Story | ||
| Hiding Place | 2011 Analog Award | Novella | ||
| Arvies | 2011 Million Writers Award | - | Won | |
| Arvies | 2011 Nebula Award | Short Story | ||
| War of the Marionettes | 2011 Kurd Laßwitz Award | Foreign Work | ||
| Her Husband's Hands | 2012 Nebula Award | Short Story | ||
| Her Husband's Hands | 2013 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories | ||
| Her Husband's Hands | 2014 Premio Ignotus | Foreign Story | ||
| Sleeping Dogs | 2015 Analog Award | Novella | ||
| Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent | 2015 Analog Award | Short Story | ||
| The Coward's Option | 2016 Analog Award | Novella | Won | |
| The Soul Behind the Face | 2016 Analog Award | Novella | ||
| The Thing About Shapes to Come | 2017 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories | ||
| A Stab of the Knife | 2018 Analog Award | Novella | ||
| Blurred Lives | 2018 Analog Award | Novella | ||
| The Unnecessary Parts of the Story | 2018 Analog Award | Short Story | Won | |
| The Gorilla in a Tutu Principle or, Pecan Pie at Minnie and Earl's | 2019 Analog Award | Novella | Won | |
| The Savannah Problem | 2019 Analog Award | Novella | ||
| The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation | 2019 World Fantasy Award | Short Fiction | ||
| Draiken Dies | 2020 Analog Award | Novella | Won | |
| The Silence Before I Sleep | 2021 Analog Award | Novella | ||
| The Last Science Fiction Story | 2021 Analog Award | Short Story | ||
| Burning the Ladder | 2022 Analog Award | Novella | ||
| A Tableau of Things That Are | 2022 Eugie Award | - | ||
| The Third Claw of God | 2022 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Novel | ||
| Unfamiliar Gods | 2023 Seiun Award | Translated Short Story | ||
| To Fight the Colossus | 2023 Analog Award | Novella |
Books
- X-Men and Spider-Man: The Present, Berkley Boulevard, 1998
- Spider-Man: The Gathering of the Sinister Six, Berkley Boulevard, 1999
- Spider-Man: The Revenge of the Sinister Six, Ibooks, 2001
- Spider-Man: The Secret of the Sinister Six, Ibooks, 2002
- My Ox Is Broken: Roadblocks, Detours, Fast Forwards, and Other Great Moments from TV's THE AMAZING RACE. Benbella Books, 2006
- The Unauthorized Harry Potter. Borders Books, 2007
- Emissaries from the Dead: An Andrea Cort Novel. HarperCollins Eos, 2008
- The Shallow End of the Pool. Creeping Hemlock Press, 2008
- The Third Claw of God: An Andrea Cort Novel. HarperCollins Eos, 2009
- Fake Alibis. By Frank Sibila, with Adam-Troy Castro and Caren Kennedy. BenBella, 2009
- War of the Marionettes: An Andrea Cort Novel.. Lubbe, 2010
- V Is for Vampire. With Johnny Atomic. Eos, 2011
- Z Is for Zombie. With Johnny Atomic. Eos, 2011
- Gustav Gloom and the People Taker. Grosset and Dunlap, 2012
- Gustav Gloom and the Nightmare Vault. Grosset & Dunlap, 2013
- Gustav Gloom and the Four Terrors. Grosset & Dunlap, 2013
- Gustav Gloom and the Cryptic Carousel. Grosset & Dunlap, 2014
- Gustav Gloom and the Inn of Shadows. Grosset and Dunlap, 2015
- Gustav Gloom and the Castle of Fear. Grosset and Dunlap, 2016
Short fiction collections
- Lost in Booth Nine
- A Desperate, Decaying Darkness
- An Alien Darkness
- Vossoff and Nimmitz: Just a Couple of Idiots Reupholstering Space and Time
- With the Stars in their Eyes
- Tangled Strings
- Her Husband's Hands and Other Stories
- And Other Stories
- The Author's Wife Vs. the Giant Robot and Other Stories
- ''Minnie and Earl''
Short stories
- Clearance to Land
- Confusing Sequel to a Story You Haven't Read
- Synchronicity
- The House of Nails
- The Telltale Head
- Scars: A Romance in Seven Acts
- Close
- Death Rents a Video
- Jesus Used a Paperclip
- Razorface Did That!
- The Slow Hit
- Crucifixon
- Ragz
- The Good, the Bad, the Danged
- The Hand Inside
- Vend-A-Witch
- Family Album
- The Way Things Ought to Be
- What Happened Next
- Crisis on Ward H!
- Suds
- The Death of Love
- The Second Time Around
- The Well
- Vocabulary
- Windshield
- The Astronaut from Wyoming
- The Adventure of the Garrulous Codger
- Fantasy Room
- Good for the Soul
- After the Protocols
- The Night of the Living POTUS
- After the Ice
- Among the Tchi
- The Anteroom
- During the Pause
- Another Friendly Day in the Antique Trade
- The Thing About Shapes to Come
- The Totals
- Hide and Shriek
- In the Temple of Celestial Pleasures
- Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent
- Framing Mortensen
- Death Every Seventy-Two Minutes
- Shakesville
- Unfamiliar Gods
- Q & A
- James, in the Golden Sunlight of the Hereafter
- A Touch of Heart
- The Mouth of the Oyster
- The Streets of Babel
- Pitcher Plant
- The Unnecessary Parts of the Story
- The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation
- Example
- The Minor Superhero, at Home after His Series Ends
- Sand Castles
- On an Old Man's Contemplation of an Archway Sealed with Stones
- Genesis for Dyslexics
- Sacrid's Pod
- Dollhouse
- Eros Pratfalled, Or, Adrift in the Cosmos with Lasagna and Mary Steenburgen
- Fortune's Final Hand
- Today's Question of the Day in Waverly, Ohio
- Many Happy Returns
- Decorating with Luke
- The Time Traveler's Advice to the Lovelorn
- The End of the World Measured in Values of N
- The Monkey Trap
- The Wallpaper Out of Space
- Answering the Questions You Might Have About the Kharbat
- Rotten Little Town: An Oral History
- The Last Science Fiction Story
- And Now, a Preview of Coming Attractions
- A Tableau of Things That Are
- Judi
- The Silence Before I Sleep
- Glimpses in Amber
- Ten Scenes from a Typical Day in the Life of the All-Powerful Despot
- Fairy Tale
- Orientation
- The Last Act at the Time Cabaret
- Cards on the Table
- My Future Self, Refused
- The Arm Ouroboros
- One Wild Night
- The Conflagration at the Museum of You
- With the Wheeze of a Glass Sentence
- The Day the Earthman Didn't Show
- An Inconvenient Man
- Spaceman Jones
- To Fight the Colossus
- Five Things That Go Through Your Mind After the Masked Killer Decapitates You with an Axe and Your Still-Living Head Has a Few Seconds of Consciousness Left to Gaze at Your Twitching Body
- Seed
- Farewell to Faust
- Gab
- The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics
- The Terrible Secret of the Immortal Bards
- Minnie and Earl Have a Kitten
- Amelia's Story
- What We Plan to Do with You
- ''Message in a Babel''