Gene O'Neill (born 1938) is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction.
O'Neill's professional writing career began after completing the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1979. Since that time, over 100 of his works have been published. His short story work has appeared in Cemetery Dance Magazine, Twilight Zone Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
O'Neill has had many occupations besides writing including postal worker, contract specialist for AAFES, college basketball player, amateur boxer, United States Marine, right-of-way agent, and vice president of a small manufacturing plant. He also holds two degrees from California State University, Sacramento and University of Minnesota.
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Awards and honors
Besides having his stories reprinted worldwide, including Russia, Spain, and France, he has received many other honors including:
The Taste of Tenderloin received a 2009 starred review in Publishers Weekly
The Confessions of St. Zach received a "Best Small Press Chill" Black Quill Award nomination from Dark Scribe in 2009
Bram Stoker Awards
"Balance", received a Bram Stoker Award nomination for Best Short Fiction in 2007
The Confessions of St. Zach received a Bram Stoker Award nomination for Best Long Fiction in 2009
Taste of Tenderloin won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection in 2010
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Novels and novellas
The Grand Struggle (Prime Books, 2004)
Collected Tales of the Baja Express (Delirium Books, 2006)
White Tribe (Elder Signs Press, 2007)
The Confessions of St. Zach (Bad Moon Books, 2008)
Lost Tribe (Bad Moon Books, 2009)
Not Fade Away (forthcoming, 2010)
Shadow of the Dark Angel (Dominion, 2002 / Bad Moon Books, 2009) ISBN 1-894815-25-4
Deathflash (Bad Moon Books, 2009)
Double Jack (Bad Moon Books, 2011)
The Burden of Indigo (Prime Books, 2002)
The Armless Conductor (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction) (September, 1987)
The Confessions of St. Zach (Bad Moon Books, 2008)
Doc Good's Travelling Show (Bad Moon Books, 2009)
The Great Northern Sweetwater Raid novella featured in the collection called Sideshow Exhibits (Sideshow Press, 2010)
Jade (Bad Moon Books, 2010)
Short stories
Stories from anthologies and magazines:
"The Burden of Indigo" Twilight Zone Magazine (October, 1981)
"The Affective Connection" Pulpsmith (1982)
"Dakota Safari" Twilight Zone Magazine (April, 1983)
"Alchemy" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (May, 1983)
"It's in Their Eyes" from the anthology Damnations edited by R. K. Leming (Miskatonic University Press, 1984)
"300 S. Montgomery" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (July, 1984)
"The Shadow of the Mountain" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (March, 1985)
"The White Quetzal" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (July 1985)
"The Armless Conductor" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (September, 1987)
"Live Oak" from the anthology Men and Women of Letters, edited by John Yewell (1988)
"With Grace" Tales of the Unanticipated (Spring/Summer/Fall, 1990)
"Awaken Dragon" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction(May, 1990)
"The Beautiful Stranger" Starshore (Spring, 1991)
"The City Never Sleeps" from the anthology Dead End: City Limits edited by David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson (St. Martin's Press, 1991)
Collections
Rockers, Shamans, Manikins & Thanathespians (Silver Lake Publications, 2001) ISBN 1-931095-23-X
Ghost, Spirits, Computers and World Machines (Prime Books, 2001) ISBN 1-894815-04-1
The Grand Struggle
The Taste of Tenderloin (Apex Publishing, 2009) ISBN 978-0-9816390-0-0