Dean Wesley Smith


Dean Wesley Smith is an American writer of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy. Smith has published nearly 200 novels and hundreds of short stories.
Smith has also written novels for licensed properties such as Star Trek, Spider-Man, X-Men, Men in Black, and many other gaming, television, and movie properties.
Smith's novel Laying the Music to Rest, was nominated for the 1990 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. Smith's short story, In the Shade of the Slowboat Man, was nominated for the 1997 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
He is married to fellow writer/editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch; they have collaborated on several works. Smith and Rusch operated Pulphouse Publishing for many years and edited the original incarnation of Pulphouse Magazine; they won a World Fantasy Award in 1989.

Cold Poker Gang

The Tenth Planet series, on which he collaborated with his wife, author Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Smith's film novelizations include ', The Rundown, Steel, The Core, and X-Men.
Other properties include Aliens, Roswell, Smallville, and Quantum Leap.
His Star Trek novels include original books in series adapted from all five of the live action television series:, ', ', ' and '. He has also written books in the Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers series, and has edited the contest anthology series, '.
Smith's stories can also be found in almost 20 different anthologies, such as Journeys to the Twilight Zone, The Book of Kings, and Past Lives, Present Tense. He also wrote 4 books with his wife under the name Sandy Schofield.
In 1992, Smith was the founding publisher of Tomorrow Speculative Fiction before selling the magazine to editor Algis Budrys's UniFont.

Short Stories