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Keith DeCandido

Keith Robert Andreassi DeCandido (born April 18, 1969) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and musician, who works on comic books, novels, role-playing games and video games, including numerous media tie-in books for properties such as Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Andromeda, Farscape, Leverage, Spider-Man, X-Men, Sleepy Hollow, and Stargate SG-1.

Early life

(From left to right:) David Alan Mack, Will Sliney and DeCandido at a signing at Forbidden Planet in Manhattan, April 22, 2010

DeCandido was born in the Bronx in New York City, the son of Robert L. DeCandido and GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido. He claims to have been a Star Trek fan even before his birth, as his parents were fans of Star Trek: The Original Series.[1]

DeCandido attended New Rochelle Academy and Halstead School, and then Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx before attending Fordham University. While attending Fordham University, DeCandido worked as an editor and writer of one of the college newspapers, called simply the paper.[2]

Career

After graduation, DeCandido worked as editor at several publishing companies. Along with John S. Drew, in the 1990s he co-produced a public-access television cable TV show in Manhattan about science fiction called The Chronic Rift, which he also co-hosted.[3] DeCandido and Drew and others revived the show as a podcast in 2008.[4] DeCandido also used to host his own monthly podcast, Dead Kitchen Radio, on hiatus as of February 2019.

While DeCandido spent much of his career writing Star Trek fiction, he has written tie-ins for other popular sci-fi and fantasy series as well, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Stargate SG-1, Sleepy Hollow, Farscape, and Leverage as well as comic books (Spider-Man, X-Men), movies (Cars, Serenity, Alien), role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons), and video games (World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Command & Conquer, Resident Evil). He has also written fiction in universes of his own creation: Dragon Precinct and its sequels, a high-fantasy police procedural; urban fantasy short stories set in Key West about a weirdness magnet named Cassie Zukav, who learns she is a Dís; the Adventures of Bram Gold, urban fantasy novels set in the Bronx; Super City Cops, novels, novellas, and short stories featuring cops in a city filled with superheroes; and Supernatural Crimes Unit, an urban fantasy series debuting in 2025 from the Weird Tales Presents imprint of Blackstone Publishing. He has also edited or co-edited various anthologies, including OtherWere (with Laura Anne Gilman), Urban Nightmares (with Josepha Sherman), Imaginings, Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups (with Jonathan Maberry), The Four ???? of the Apocalypse (with Wrenn Simms), the Doctor Who collection Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership, and the Star Trek anthologies New Frontier: No Limits (with Peter David), Tales of the Dominion War, and Tales from the Captain's Table.

In 2009, DeCandido was named Grandmaster by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.[5]

He has written rewatches for Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com) since 2011, including Star Trek: The Original Series,[6] Star Trek: The Next Generation,[7] Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,[8] Star Trek: Voyager,[9] Star Trek: Enterprise,[10] Stargate,[11] Batman 1966,[12] "4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch,"[13] about every live-action superhero movie based on a comic book, and Babylon 5.[14] DeCandido also writes reviews and commentary for Tor.com, including reviews of many of TV adaptions of comic books and of the new Star Trek shows Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Prodigy, and Short Treks.

DeCandido is an avid baseball fan, particularly of the New York Yankees. He has contributed in the past to both the Replacement Level Yankees Weblog and Pinstripe Alley, and he currently serves as an occasional freelance editor for the Society for American Baseball Research.

Bibliography

Star Trek novels

Star Trek novellas, short stories, comic books, etc.

Star Trek eBooks

Precinct novels

Precinct short stories

Other novels

Novelizations

Novellas

Short story collections

Other comic books

Short fiction

Reference books

References

  1. ^ "Star Trek books and comics" Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, Dead link as of July 14, 2017
  2. ^ "So Who is Keith R.A. DeCandido, Anyhow?" Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, Dead link as of July 14, 2017
  3. ^ "WEDDINGS; Marina Frants Has Wedding". New York Times. May 3, 1992. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  4. ^ "The Chronic Rift Podcast Network". Indiegogo. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  5. ^ The Fourth Annual Scribe Awards (2009) Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, accessed July 15, 2011.
  6. ^ "Star Trek: The Original Series Rewatch". tor.com. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  7. ^ " Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch" Retrieved July 8, 2013
  8. ^ "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rewatch" Retrieved August 26, 2013.
  9. ^ "Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch" Retrieved October 19, 2022.
  10. ^ "Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch" Retrieved October 19, 2022.
  11. ^ "Stargate Rewatch". tor.com. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  12. ^ "Holy Rewatch Batman!". tor.com. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  13. ^ "4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch". tor.com.
  14. ^ "Babylon 5 Rewatch". reactormag.com. Retrieved 2 July 2024.

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