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Alan Rodgers

1959 – 2014

Science fiction and horror writer, editor, and poet

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Lived 1959 – 2014 (aged 54). Alan Rodgers was an American writer, novelist and science fiction writer.

Alan Rodgers (August 11, 1959 – March 8, 2014) was a science fiction and horror writer, editor, and poet. In the mid-eighties he was the editor for Night Cry. His short stories have been published in a number of venues, including Weird Tales, Twilight Zone and a number of anthologies, such as Darker Masques, Prom Night, and Vengeance Fantastic. His novelette "The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead" won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction in 1987 and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award.

Biography Alan Rodgers was born in 1959. From summer 1985 to fall 1987, Rodgers was the editor of the horror digest Night Cry. In 1987, his "The Boy Who Came Back From the Dead" tied for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction. In 1990, his "Blood of the Children" was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.

He died at Anaheim on March 8, 2014.

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science fiction and horror writer, editor, and poet (1959–2014)

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Alan Rodgers was born on 11 August 1959.

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Alan Rodgers died on 8 March 2014 in Anaheim.

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Alan Rodgers was a writer, novelist and science fiction writer.

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