Patrick H. Adkins (January 9, 1948 – April 7, 2015) was an American
fantasy
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author
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and
editor
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best known for his mythological fantasies.
In addition to his writing he has worked as "a bookseller, small press publisher, 'slush pile' reader for ''Galaxy'' magazine, medical and technical editor and writer, freelance writer, story doctor, ghost writer, editor-in-chief of a multimedia publishing company, and software expert."
Adkins's "Strange Excursions" website
/ref> Together with fellow science fiction fan John H. Guidry he launched the "Tarzana Project" to print the unpublished and uncollected works of Edgar Rice Burroughs
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under the imprint of Guidry & Adkins.
Bibliography
Titan series
*''Lord of the Crooked Paths'' (1987)
*''Master of the Fearful Depths'' (1989)
*''Sons of the Titans'' (1990)
Other novels
*''The Third Beast'' (2000)
Short stories
*"Hunting the Dragonblood" (1981)
Footnotes
External links
Adkins's "Strange Excursions" website
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Patrick H. Adkins entry at Fantastic Fiction
1948 births
2015 deaths
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American male writers
American fantasy writers
American male novelists
Writers from New Orleans
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