72. Allen Steele (author of the Coyote series)

Allen Steele is a three-time Hugo Award-winning who has been publishing since the 80s. He’s well-known for his Near Space Series, the revival of Edmond Hamilton’s Captain Future series, numerous standalones (including one of my favourites, Chronospace, now named Time Loves a Hero), and, what we’re talking about today, his Coyote series. An intergenerational series following rebels who hijack an interstellar ship and colonize the habitable moon Coyote, the titular book came out in 2002. The main portion of the series consists of 5 books that take place on Coyote, and 3 spinoffs that mostly take place off of Coyote, and, as we’ll hear, Allen is currently working on a long-awaited next instalment in the series.As I tell Allen in our conversation, I have been reading his work for 25 years, and he is one of my favourite scifi authors. In fact, I have the entire Coyote series in the first-edition hardcovers, including one of the signed and numbered copies of The River Horses, which is a novella that bridges the gap between Coyote Rising and Coyote Frontier. In case you’re wondering, I have copy 107 of 500. In the past few months, all 8 novels ofthe Coyote Series have been rereleased by Open Road Media, and are available now. Oshawa Comiccon March 7thStratford Comiccon March 29Cambridge Comiccon March 30Barrie Comiccon April 11Sudbury Comiccon April 25Huntsville Comiccon May 3Manitoulin Island Comiccon June 13thEspanola Comiccon June 14thFlamborough Book Fair July 26thJason Shannon is an indie Canadian author of science fiction and more. His seventh novel, Tiger Blues, is available now: “A plucky crew of mercenaries must keep a doomsday weapon from the Maoists in alt-history 1948 Tibet.”Follow my social media @harujinshounds