James Van Pelt
Source: "James Van Pelt Bibliography." Author Wars, https://authorwars.com/authors/james-van-pelt.html".
Pseudonyms:
Notes:
James Van Pelt teaches English at Fruita Monument High School and Mesa State College in western Colorado. He received a B.A. in English and History from Metro State College in Denver in 1978 and an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California in Davis in 1990.
Titles:
Collections
- Unknown. Strangers and Beggars
- Unknown. The Radio Magician and Other Stories
- 2005. The Last of the O-Forms
- 2012. Flying in the Heart of the Lafayette Escadrille
- 2017. The Experience Arcade and Other Stories
- 2020. The Best of James Van Pelt
Essays
- Unknown. Human Futures
- Unknown. Introduction (American Sorrows)
- Unknown. Introduction (Long Walks, Last Flights & Other Strange Journeys)
- Unknown. Introduction (Soul Taster: Four Dark Tales)
- Unknown. Letter (Analog, November 2001)
- Unknown. Letter (Analog, November 2001) [2]
- Unknown. Letter (Analog, October 2000)
- 2016. Introduction (The Best of Abyss & Apex: Volume Two)
- 2017. Afterword (The Experience Arcade and Other Stories)
Interior Art
Interviews
- Unknown. Interview with James Van Pelt
- 2001. Interview: James Van Pelt
- 2001. Interview: James Van Pelt
Novels
Poems
Reviews
- Unknown. Flying in the Heart of the Lafayette Escadrille
- Unknown. Pandora's Gun
- Unknown. Strangers and Beggars
- Unknown. Strangers and Beggars
- Unknown. Strangers and Beggars
- Unknown. Strangers and Beggars
- Unknown. Strangers and Beggars
- Unknown. Summer of the Apocalypse
- Unknown. Summer of the Apocalypse
- Unknown. Summer of the Apocalypse
- Unknown. Summer of the Apocalypse
- Unknown. The Best of James Van Pelt
- Unknown. The Best of James Van Pelt
- Unknown. The Experience Arcade and Other Stories
- Unknown. The Infodict
- Unknown. The Infodict
- Unknown. The Last of the O-Forms & Other Stories
- Unknown. The Last of the O-Forms and Other Stories
- Unknown. The Radio Magician and Other Stories
Short Fiction
- Unknown. A Real Myth for an Imaginary Time
- Unknown. A Wow Finish
- Unknown. Amos Adams Stops a Lynching
- Unknown. Apprentice
- Unknown. Ark Ascension
- Unknown. Aubrey Comes to Yellow High
- Unknown. Big Thompson
- Unknown. Catching Rays
- Unknown. Christmas Stalking
- Unknown. Coffins Beach Past Anissquam Lighthouse Open Water Swim
- Unknown. Death of a Starship Poet
- Unknown. Deathlehem
- Unknown. Different Worlds
- Unknown. Echoing
- Unknown. Eight Words
- Unknown. End of Season on Lesser Klattercup Island
- Unknown. Ethnoentomology
- Unknown. Falling Out of Downey
- Unknown. Far from the Emerald Isle
- Unknown. Father's Dragon
- Unknown. Finding Orson
- Unknown. Floaters
- Unknown. Flying in the Heart of the Lafayette Escadrille
- Unknown. For the Love of Falmoth
- Unknown. Friday, After the Game
- Unknown. Graduation in the Time of Yog-Sothoth
- Unknown. Grandma's Shadow Box
- Unknown. Happy Ending
- Unknown. Have You Seen Bitsy?
- Unknown. High Sulfur Hot Springs and Camping Park
- Unknown. High-Stakes Test
- Unknown. Home
- Unknown. How Music Begins
- Unknown. Howl Above the Din
- Unknown. I Have Loved the Stars too Fondly
- Unknown. Igazi kislány
- Unknown. In Memoriam
- Unknown. In the Days Still Left
- Unknown. Its Hour Come Round
- Unknown. John Emerson's Toy
- Unknown. Just Before Recess
- Unknown. La última de las formas-O
- Unknown. Landscapes
- Unknown. Lashawnda at the End
- Unknown. Mars, Aphids, and Your Cheating Heart
- Unknown. Midnight Movie
- Unknown. Minerva Girls
- Unknown. Miss Hathaway's Spider
- Unknown. Mrs. Hatcher's Evaluation
- Unknown. My Father and the Martian Moon Maids
- Unknown. Neoteric Urban Archaeology
- Unknown. Night Sweats
- Unknown. Nine Fingers on the Flute
- Unknown. No Small Change
- Unknown. Nor a Lender Be
- Unknown. Notes from the Field
- Unknown. Nothing Is Normal
- Unknown. O Tannenbaum
- Unknown. On the Existence of Ghosts, As If
- Unknown. On the Road with the American Dead
- Unknown. Once They Were Monarchs
- Unknown. One Day, in the Middle of the Night
- Unknown. One in a Thousand
- Unknown. Origin of the Species
- Unknown. Orphaned
- Unknown. Pandora's Gun (excerpt)
- Unknown. Party On
- Unknown. Perceptual Set
- Unknown. Pirate Readers
- Unknown. Plant Life
- Unknown. Queen of the River: The Harbor Hope
- Unknown. ReplAcemenT
- Unknown. Resurrection
- Unknown. Road Decoy
- Unknown. Rock House
- Unknown. Sacrifice
- Unknown. Savannah Is Six
- Unknown. Second Quarter and Counting
- Unknown. SeeApp
- Unknown. Shark Attack: A Love Story
- Unknown. Skinny Dipping with the Old Ones
- Unknown. Small Town News
- Unknown. Solace
- Unknown. Teaching
- Unknown. That He Might Yet Find the Unknown
- Unknown. The Bahnhof Drive-In
- Unknown. The Big One
- Unknown. The Boy Behind the Gate
- Unknown. The Children's Collection
- Unknown. The Circumambulation
- Unknown. The Comeback
- Unknown. The Continuing Saga of Tom Corbett: Space Cadet
- Unknown. The Death Dwarves
- Unknown. The Diorama
- Unknown. The Family Rocket
- Unknown. The Gift
- Unknown. The Golden Daffodils
- Unknown. The Hareton K-12 County School and Adult Extension
- Unknown. The High Throne
- Unknown. The Hounds of Winter
- Unknown. The Ice-Cream Man
- Unknown. The Infodict
- Unknown. The Inn at Mount Either
- Unknown. The Inside Straight
- Unknown. The Invisible Empire
- Unknown. The Last Age Should Show Your Heart
- Unknown. The Last of the O-Forms
- Unknown. The Lawn Fairy War
- Unknown. The Light of a Thousand Suns
- Unknown. The Long Mural
- Unknown. The Long Way Home
- Unknown. The Pair-a-Deuce Comet Casino All Sol Poker Championships
- Unknown. The Radio Magician
- Unknown. The Road's End
- Unknown. The Safety of the Herd
- Unknown. The Saint from Abdijan
- Unknown. The Saint of Abidjan
- Unknown. The Saturn Ring Blues
- Unknown. The Small Astral Object Genius
- Unknown. The Sound of One Foot Dancing
- Unknown. The Stars Underfoot
- Unknown. The Sword Imperial
- Unknown. The Turkey Raptor
- Unknown. The United Systems Goodwill Concert Series and the Greatest Performance of All Time
- Unknown. The Waylost Café
- Unknown. The Yard God
- Unknown. This Good Lesson Keep
- Unknown. This Gray Rock, Standing Tall
- Unknown. Three Paintings
- Unknown. Tiny Voices
- Unknown. Two in the Multiverse
- Unknown. Up from the Valley, Down to the Valley and a Pass Between
- Unknown. Vigil
- Unknown. Voices
- Unknown. Watch, Decide, Act
- Unknown. What Weena Knew
- Unknown. Where and When
- Unknown. Witch in the Woods
- Unknown. Working Pushout
- Unknown. Working the Moon Circuit
- Unknown. Working the Moon Unit
- 2000. Parallel Highways
- 2002. A Flock of Birds
- 2002. Do Good
- 2007. Of Late I Dreamt of Venus
- 2008. Harvest
- 2009. Where Did You Come From? Where Did You Go?
- 2011. Late Homework
- 2011. Values, Vision and Mission
- 2011. Classroom of the Living Dead
- 2013. The Time Travel Device
- 2014. The Story Will Win a Hugo
- 2015. Everything's Unlikely
- 2015. This Story Will Win a Hugo
- 2015. Experience Arcade
- 2016. Ghost Ship
- 2016. The Lies
- 2016. We Have Always Lived in the Hamlet
- 2016. Zoo Hack
- 2016. The Silk Silvered Skulls of Millen Mir
- 2016. Writing Advice
- 2016. Weaponized Ghosts of the 96th Infantry
- 2016. Titan Descanso
- 2016. Maybe If One Person Less
- 2016. The Heated Door
- 2016. No One Is So Fierce
- 2017. proLong
- 2017. Five Dollars for a Ticket
- 2017. Fine Dining During the Apocalypse
- 2017. Mother Azalea's Sad Home for Forgotten Adults
- 2017. Coyote Moon
- 2017. The Elevator Illimitable
- 2017. Housekeeping
- 2017. Titan Descansos
- 2018. They Don't Feed the Garden
- 2019. Norwegian Wood
- 2019. In the Blue Buzz
- 2019. A última forma-o
- 2020. A Simple Pine Box
- 2020. The Play Date
- 2020. Gun Safe
- 2020. Graduation in the Time of Yog Sothoth
- 2020. My Father and the Moon Maids from Mars
- 2020. Of Late I've Dreamt of Venus
- 2020. The Ice Cream Man
- 2020. The Last Age Should Know Your Heart
- 2020. The Miracle at Ramah
- 2021. Small Worlds of Black and White
- 2022. NPC
- 2022. On the Metal Rain, Over Germany, 1944
- 2023. Secret Identity
- 2024. BWDOC
Awards
- 0000. Minerva Girls - Analog Award, Best Novelette (Win)
- 0000. Nor a Lender Be - Analog Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. What Weena Knew - Analog Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. The Inn at Mount Either - Analog Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. How Music Begins - Asimov's Readers' Poll, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. Solace - Analog Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. The Continuing Saga of Tom Corbett: Space Cadet - Analog Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. The Infodict - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. The Ice-Cream Man - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. A Flock of Birds - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
- 0000. Ark Ascension - Analog Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. Resurrection - Analog Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. The Last of the O-Forms - Asimov's Readers' Poll, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. The Long Way Home - Asimov's Readers' Poll, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. The Small Astral Object Genius - Asimov's Readers' Poll, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. The Family Rocket - Asimov's Readers' Poll, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. Death of a Starship Poet - Analog Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. SeeApp - Asimov's Readers' Poll, Best Novelette (Nomination)
- 0000. The Small Astral Object Genius - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. The Big One - Analog Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. The Ice-Cream Man - Asimov's Readers' Poll, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. La última de las formas-O - Premio Ignotus, Mejor cuento extranjero - Best Foreign Story (Nomination)
- 0000. The Infodict - Asimov's Readers' Poll, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. Summer of the Apocalypse - Locus Poll Award, Best First Novel (Nomination)
- 0000. The Last of the O-Forms - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. The Inn at Mount Either - Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, Best Short Science Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. The Big One - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. Nor a Lender Be - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. The Infodict - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Nomination below cutoff)
Genres/Themes:
- science fiction (5 books)
- post-apocalyptic (1 book)
- teleportation (1 book)
- distortion drive (1 book)
- homemade spaceship (1 book)
- near future (1 book)
- crime (1 book)
- murder (1 book)
- detective (1 book)
- Media (1 book)
- movies (1 book)