Robin Wayne Bailey

Robin Wayne Bailey (born 1952) is an American writer of speculative fiction, both fantasy and science fiction. He is a founder of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame (1996) and a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA, 2005–2007).

Life

Bailey graduated from North Kansas City High School and received a B.A. in English and Anthropology and a M. A. in English Literature from Northwest Missouri State University. He debuted as a fiction writer with the novel Frost, published by Timescape Books in 1983 and followed with two sequels and a few short stories during the next three years.

Bailey's works include Shadowdance, the Frost series, The Brothers of the Dragon, and Dragonkin fantasy trilogies and Swords Against the Shadowland, a novel interpolated in the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series of sword and sorcery stories by Fritz Leiber. A direct sequel to Leiber's most famous story "Ill Met in Lankhmar" (1970), Swords Against the Shadowland was named one of the seven best fantasy novels of 1998 by genre newszine Science Fiction Chronicle. Bailey was a finalist for the annual Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "The Children's Crusade" (2007).

In conjunction with the Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society (KaCSFFS) and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, Bailey and James Gunn founded the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1996. The Hall of Fame later merged under a special agreement with Paul G. Allen's Vulcan Enterprises and in 2004 it became part of the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle. The hall of fame is now a part of the larger EMP Museum (named simply for "Experience Music Project", which has somewhat reduced the focus on its science fiction component). Beginning in 2013, it once again inducted people for contributions to fantasy, the original name also having been restored; Bailey continues to serve on its annual induction committee.

Before serving as SFWA president (2005–2007), Bailey was SFWA South-Central Regional Director for nine years; he was also the host of three of the Association's annual Nebula Awards Weekends, including two in Kansas City.; as a result, Bailey received a special "Service to SFWA Award" in 1998.

Works

Novels

Frost trilogy:

Frost, Timescape Books, 1983 ISBN 0-671-45596-6; Tor Books, 1987, ISBN 0-04-823248-3

Skull Gate, Tor, 1985, ISBN 0-8125-3139-6

Bloodsongs, Tor, 1986, ISBN 0-8125-3141-8

Enchanter, Avon Books, 1989, ISBN 0-380-75386-3 — Zork

The Lake of Fire, Bantam Books, 1989, ISBN 0-553-28185-2 — Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon, Book 4

Night Watch, TSR Books, 1990, ISBN 0-88038-914-1 ... which was set in Greyhawk City even though the cover did not include the "Greyhawk Adventures" trade dress, and was instead chosen to launch a new imprint called TSR Books.

The Lost City of Zork, Avon, 1991, ISBN 0-380-75389-8 — Zork fiction

Shadowdance, White Wolf Books, December 12, 1991, ISBN 1-56504-946-2

Brothers of the Dragon trilogy:

Brothers of the Dragon, Roc Books, 1992, ISBN 0451452518

Flames of the Dragon, Roc, 1994, ISBN 0-451-45289-5; UK title, Straight on til Mourning

Triumph of the Dragon, Roc, 1995, ISBN 0-451-45437-5; UK title, The Palace of Souls

Swords Against the Shadowland, White Wolf Books, 1998, ISBN 978-1-56504-893-5, reissue 2009 by Dark Horse Books — interpolated in Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series

Night's Angel, Meisha Merlin Books, 2002, ISBN 978-1-892065-67-4

Dragonkin trilogy

Dragonkin Vol 1, iBooks/Simon & Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0-7434-5854-0

Dragonkin: Talisman, iBooks/S&S, 2004, ISBN 1-59687-027-3

Dragonkin: Undersky, iBooks/S&S, 2006, ISBN 1-59687-312-4

Turn Left to Tomorrow (science fiction collection), Yard Dog Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-893687-84-4

THE FANTASTIKON: Tales of Wonder (a fantasy stories collection), Yard Dog Press, June 2012, ISBN 978-1-937105-30-3

As editor

Architects of Dreams: The SFWA Author-Emeritus Anthology, Meisha Merlin Books, 2003 ISBN 1-892065-97-5

Through My Glasses Darkly: Five Stories by Frank M. Robinson, KaCSFFS Press, 2002, ISBN 0-935128-02-6

Short fiction

"Primitives,(short story)" (co-writer with Rob Chilson), Amazing Stories, July 1987

"The Moon Who Loved the Man", Spells of Wonder, edited by Marian Z. Bradley, Daw Books 1989

"Butterfly Tastes the Darkness", Meltdown, edited by Caro Soles, Masqerade Books 1994

"Red as Night", Bizarre Dreams, edited by Caro Soles & Stan Tal, First Badboy 1994

"Cocoons", Fantastic Alice, edited by Margaret Weis, Ace Books, 1995

"Prometheus Bringing Fire", Future Net, edited by Martin Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Daw Books 1996

"Songchild", Space Opera, edited by Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Daw Books 1996

"Yonada", ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE, reprinted in The Best of Absolute Magnitude, edited by Stephen Pagel & Warren Lapine, Tor Books, 1997

"The Golden Cats", Catfantastic V, edited by Andre Norton, Daw Books 1999

"Angel on the Outward Side", Far Frontiers, edited by Martin Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Daw Books 2000

"Blindfold", Guardsmen of Tomorrow, edited by Martin Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Daw Books 2000

"The Case of Prince Charming", The Chick is in the Mail, edited by Esther Friesner, Baen Books 2000

"Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made Of", X-Men: Legends, edited by Stan Lee, Ace Books, 2000

"The Woman Who Loved Death", Spell Fantastic, edited by Martin Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Daw Books 2000

"Keepers of Earth", Silicon Dreams, edited by Martin Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Daw Books 2001, reprinted in Science Fiction: The Best of 2001, edited by Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber 2001 ‡

"Doing Time", Past Imperfect, edited by Martin Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Daw Books, 2001

"Two Against Thebes", The Further Adventures of Xena, edited by Martin Greenberg & John Helfers, Ace Books 2001

"The Woman Who Loved Death", Night's Angel, published by Stephen Pagel, Meisha Merlin Publishing, Inc. June 2002

"Toy Soldiers", Future Wars, edited by Martin Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Daw Books 2003 ‡