ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ROBERT REGINALD started writing as a child, and penned his first book during his senior year in college. He’s been infected with terminal logorrhea ever since, churning out more than twelve million words of professional fiction and nonfiction. He settled in Southern California in 1969, where he served as an academic librarian for 40 years. He currently edits the Borgo Press Imprint of Wildside Press, and has also penned more than 120 published books and 13,000 short pieces.

His recent works of fiction include four Nova Europa historical fantasy novels, The Dark-Haired Man; or, The Hieromonk’s Tale (2004), The Exiled Prince; or, The Archquisitor’s Tale (2004), Quæstiones; or, The Protopresbyter’s Tale (2005), and The Fourth Elephant’s Egg; or, The Hypatomancer’s Tale (forthcoming); two science-fiction novels, Invasion!: Earth vs. the Aliens (2007; a trilogy comprising The War of Two Worlds, Operation Crimson Storm, and The Martians Strike Back!) and Knack’ Attack: A Tale of the Human-Knacker War (2010); two Phantom Detective mysteries, The Phantom’s Phantom (2007) and The Nasty Gnomes (2008); a comic mystery, The Paperback Show Murders (2011); and three story collections, Katydid & Other Critters: Tales of Fantasy and Mystery (2001), The Elder of Days: Tales of the Elders (2010), and The Judgment of the Gods and Other Verdicts of History (2011).

Recent nonfiction works include an anthology, Choice Words: The Borgo Press Book of Writers Writing About Writing (2010); two collections, Xenograffiti: Essays on Fantastic Literature (1996 & 2005) and Classics of Fantastic Literature; or, Les Épines Noires (with Douglas Menville, 2005); three guides to the Deryni world, Codex Derynianus I and II and III (with Katherine Kurtz, 1998 & 2005 & forthcoming); four histories, San Quentin (ed. with Bonnie Petry, 2005), ¡Viva California!: Seven Accounts of Life in Early California (ed. with Mary Burgess, 2006), The Eastern Orthodox Churches (2005), and The Coyote Chronicles: A Chronological History of California State University, San Bernardino, 1960-2010 (2010); a short autobiography, Trilobite Dreams; or, The Autodidact’s Tale (2006); a cookbook, Cal State Cooks (ed. with Johnnie Ralph, 2006); and several bibliographies: BP 300 (2007), CSUSB Faculty Authors (2006), Murder in Retrospect (with Jill Vassilakos, 2005), and Draqualian Silk (with William Maltese, 2010). In 1993 he received the Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association. You can find him at:

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