Allan Cole

Allan Cole ( born 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He also worked as a screenwriter and journalist.

Biography

Since the summer of 1964, Cole made ​​his money with writing, first as a journalist. In Los Angeles, he worked for 14 years as a newspaper editor and in the field of Investigative Journalism. Since the summer of 1979 he wrote as a script writer for the North American television. In German-speaking countries he is known above all as an author.

Allan Cole worked with Chris Bunch, whom he had known since his first senior year of college, in the science fiction series The Sten Chronicles as a writing team together. A similar path as her work in the Far Kingdoms Series, and the Vietnam novels A Reckoning For Kings and the historical novel Daughter Of Liberty. With his uncle, Thomas Grubb, he wrote a non- fictionales documentary book called A Cop 's Life on the basis of its experience as a police officer and together with the Russian author Nik Perumow Lords of Terror.

Alone, he wrote to the Timura saga and the cycle The trip to the Far Kingdoms belonging novels and two thriller Dying Good and Drowned Hopes. As Allan Lucky Cole he gave in 2009 after three years of writing an autobiographical colored Coming out of age - youth novel titled Lucky In Cyprus: A True Story About A Teacher, A Boy, An Earthquake, Some Terrorists, And The CIA out of the his own experiences in Cyprus processed and whose substance he had carried around 50 years with them.

Over the decades, he wrote in addition to 1998, 24 screenplays for American television series such as Quincy, ME, The Rockford Files, The Incredible Hulk, Dinosaucers, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Magnum, PI, The A-Team, the werewolf returns, Greetings from beyond the grave, and Walker, Texas Ranger.

For the Battlestar Galactica TV series he worked under pressure from the Universal Studios in 1980 some screenplays, without being able to save the series, as directors like Vince Edwards as Glen A. Larson's horror wasted the money on unsuccessful production effects. Cole and Chris Bunch, who also collaborated with him here had demonstratively a 13 glued to the door of her office to illustrate the hopelessness of the project that have suffered from too many producers and the weak screenplay templates Larson. This would have the series when the time would have been taken for the development of the characters had a similar long-term potential as the Starship Enterprise to Coles and Bunchs view.

To the film he came by Jack Klugman, the lead actor of Dr. Quincy, for which he wrote specifically tailored to its previous performance as an amateur boxer screenplay. Wiseman had boxed in his youth for the Philadelphia Boxing Association, whose founder had been, among other things, the grandfather and great-uncle Coles, so the starting point was created for this relationship.

The collaboration with his longtime co-writer Chris Bunch Cole described as follows: initially had both in the discussion outlined the story outline of a book and then divided the chapters according to their respective capabilities, to then read back and correct it. After this rough cut they had this working process is repeated several times, only to send the manuscript to her publisher.

In an interview Allan Cole turned significantly against the proliferation of reality shows on North American television, as it would be used in part deliberately in order to save costs for screenwriters.

His books have been translated into German, Hebrew, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Czech and Hungarian. This is also expressed in his very active books - lecture tours across aust through Europe, he himself " whirlwind book tour" called because seven countries visited within a month.

Today he lives with his wife, Kathryn, who is the sister of his friend and colleague Chris Bunch, in Boca Raton, Florida.

Works

Timura Saga

The trip to the Far Kingdoms ( Anteros )

The Sten Chronicles

Historical novels

  • A Daughter of Liberty. Ballantine Books, New York: 1993, ISBN 0-345-36229-2
  • The Far Kingdoms. Del Rey, New York 1993, ISBN 0-345-38055- X

Novels

  • Dying Good. PublishAmerica 1996, ISBN 1-4137-4422-2
  • A Reckoning For Kings. I Books 2003, ISBN 0-7434-5839-7
  • Lucky In Cyprus: A True Story About A Teacher, A Boy, An Earthquake, Some Terrorists, And The CIA. CreateSpace 2009, ISBN 978-1-4404-2916-3
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