Bud Sparhawk


John C. "Bud" Sparhawk is an American science fiction writer. He writes humorous science fiction, in particular the Sam Boone series of short fiction.

Biography

Sparhawk was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and lives in Annapolis. He has a BS degree in Mathematics from the University of Maryland and an MBA in Finance from Oklahoma City University. After fifteen years in the Air Force he worked for a variety of commercial companies before retiring from the role of Vice President at Macfadden, a federal government contractor. Sparhawk is also a member of SIGMA, a think tank of speculative writers that advises the government on issues of national interest.
Sparhawk started writing seriously in 1974 and made his first sale to Analog, followed quickly by his second, just when he entered his second year of graduate school, and just before taking a thirteen-year hiatus from SF. His work is most associated with his short fiction in Analog but it has also appeared in various other magazines and anthologies. He is a three-time nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Novella, in 1997, 2002, and 2005, and his stories have appeared in several Year's Best SF anthologies. His first professionally published novel, titled Vixen, was released in 2008 from Cosmos Books. At the 2017 Nebula Awards Sparhawk received the Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. Award for service to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and in 2018 he retired from the SFWA Board of Directors as Chief Financial Officer.
Sparhawk occasionally attends science fiction and fantasy conventions, including Balticon, Confluence, and CapClave in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US. He has also appeared as a guest author in numerous interviews. When not writing, he spends his spare time sailing on Chesapeake Bay.

Novels

;Analog
  • The Invitation
  • The Fading Pages of a Short Story
  • Downsized
  • Heaven's Covenant
  • The Return
  • Footprints in the Snow
  • Forgiveness
  • CREP d'Etoile
  • The Snack
  • The Old Man's Best
  • Astronomical Distance, Geologic Time
  • The Late Sam Boone
  • The Suit
  • Chandra's Pup
  • – Nebula Award finalist
  • Sam Boone's Super Fantastic, Intragalactic, Ass-Kicking, Body-Slammin', Foot Stomping, Rasslin' Extravaganza
  • Magic's Price – Nebula Award finalist
  • The Debt
  • The Emperor's Dark Matters
  • Evolution
  • Olympus Mons
  • The Ice Dragon's Song
  • Sam Boone's Teacup Conundrum
  • High Flight
  • Sam Boone's Dry Run
  • Primrose Rescue
  • Sam Boone's Rational Choice
  • Sam Boone's Appeal to Common Scents
  • Primrose and Thorn – Anlab Award winner, Nebula finalist; in Years' Best Science Fiction, number 14
  • The Bill
  • Resurrection
  • Sam Boone and the Thermal Couples
  • Persistence
  • Iridium Dreams
  • Jake's Gift
  • R-TRNRD
  • Dad
  • Childish Things
  • Hurricane!
  • Mary's Present
  • Alba Krystal
  • The Tompkins Battery Case
; Other magazines
  • Dog Tales
  • Comrades in Arms
  • Yesterday's Solutions
  • Haunted
  • Causes and Effects
  • High Jack
  • Culmination
  • Tommy and the Beast
  • Ten Winks to Forever
  • Tortuous Path
  • No Cord Nor Cable
  • Winds of Mars
  • Pumpkin Jim Baen's Universe, January 2009)
  • The Super
  • Connection
  • Frost
  • An Affliction of Wyrms
  • Bright Red Star – in Year's Best Science Fiction, number 11
  • Handful of Stars
  • Rate of Change
  • Mercenary
  • Beryl's Run
  • Etiquette
  • Rate of Change
  • Eve of Feast
  • Culmination

    Short fiction in anthologies

  • Pilgrim
  • True Friends
  • Hard Choices
  • Cybermarine
  • The Glass Box
  • Broadside
  • Alliances
  • Dancing with Dragons, collection
  • Sam Boone – Front to Back, collection of the Sam Boone stories
  • Bright Red Star
  • Seduction
  • Pumpkin
  • Fierce Embrace

    Electronic books

  • Distant Seas
  • Stone in the Glade
  • Two Novellas
  • Three from the Dark Side
  • Mars & Beyond
  • Magician
  • Evolution
  • Boy's Book of Science
  • Short Subjects

    Nonfiction

  • Premature Submission Syndrome
  • The Eleven Stages of Publication
  • Writing Tools
  • From the Treasurer
  • Taxes and the Short Fiction Writer
  • Laugh Lines
  • Your Literary Legacy
  • Cold Trophies
  • Ms Management
  • Love's Labor. Lost!
  • The Last Great Man
  • The Hat and the Dragon
  • Hugo and Me

    Critical studies and reviews of Sparhawk's work

;Distant Seas
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